A Nigerian man has reportedly been arrested by the Kanagawa Prefectural Police for allegedly trying to smuggle about 15,000 tablets of MDMA, or Ecstasy into Japan from Germany.

The decomposing body of a missing nurse has reportedly been found in a remote mountainside in Nara City, Japan on Friday, July 23.

A 59-year-old Japanese son has confessed to killing his sick and elderly parents at their residence in Fukuoka City last month, frustrated by their frequent requests for help while he was trying to binge-watch anime.

The relationship of Japan and South Korean continues to grow sour following inappropriate remarks made by a Japanese official on SoKor president Moon Jae-in.

A weightlifter who failed to qualify for the Olympics in Japan went missing before he had to return to Uganda. Police tracked him down and took him into custody.

One of Higashiomi man Yuki Shimada's seven acquaintances charged over his death has been sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison, the Otsu District Court upheld on Wednesday.

Japanese authorities have apprehended a 30-year-old Uzbek national working part-time for the Tokyo Olympic Games after he allegedly raped a female co-worker inside the Japan National Stadium last week.

A Japanese man who reportedly attempted to rob a Starbucks store in Japan while armed with a fire extinguisher has been arrested.

Japanese authorities have arrested four staff members for the Tokyo Olympic Games from the United States and Britain after they were accused of using cocaine, police revealed on Tuesday.

An anti-Olympic protester was nabbed by Ibaraki Prefectural Police on Sunday following futile attempts to extinguish the Olympic torch during the procession around Senba Park.

The Osaka High Court in Japan upheld on Tuesday last week the death sentence for a 74-year-old woman after she deliberately poisoned and killed her former lovers, including her recent husband, to become the key benefactor of their fortunes.

A man has been arrested for allegedly threatening to set off a bomb in a botched bank robbery on Monday, all because he was behind on his rent.

A predatory 46-year-old Osaka has been accused of posing as a talent scout to solicit sex from an aspiring teen idol.

Two corpses were discovered inside a sealed refrigerator in a house in Fukuoka City, Japan. Meanwhile, three family members were found dead in the mountains of Hakodate City also in Japan.

A suspected serial shoe thief has confessed to stealing women's shoes for several years to fulfill his sexual desire following his arrest earlier this month in Japan.

Japanese emergency services retrieved a realistic sex doll from the local waters following reports of a woman's floating corpse at Hachinohe Bay on Friday, logging an operation that's one for the books. 

Niigata Prefectural police have arrested Yu Inuma after supplying a high boy with health supplements in exchange for sex. The suspect, however, denied the allegations, claiming he didn't know the victim was below 18 years of age.

A 36-year-old Tokyo woman has been arrested on Tuesday after attempting to rob a bank with a toy knife.

A male senior executive for the Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC) was rammed and killed by a speeding train after approaching the carrier head-on in an apparent suicide at a railway station in Shinagawa Ward on Monday.

An alleged sex worker succumbed to her injuries after getting brutally stabbed 70 times at a love hotel in Japan on Tuesday, June 1.

A 24-year-old woman has been arrested for reportedly leaving the corpse of her newborn boy in a plastic bag at her residence in Kagoshima City.

A son has been seized by law enforcement on Thursday after the decomposing bodies of his mother and father were located in their residence in Japan. Meanwhile, a 911 call released on Thursday has revealed harrowing details of a dismembered body located on Monday in North Carolina.

A mother has been charged with corpse abandonment after calling a local 119 dispatcher on Monday morning and complaining about the unpleasant smell of the corpse of her son.

A junior high school boy reportedly hooked onto skeletal remains while fishing at a pond in Kadoma City, Osaka Prefecture.

A woman in Japan has been arrested for the murder of her elderly millionaire husband back in 2018.

He found a rather unconventional way to receive gifts worth 100,000 yen and lied about his birthday to each woman.

A woman auctioned off her husband’s prized Yu-Gi-Oh cards as an act of revenge for cheating on her.

US and Philippines begin military exercises as a Chinese aircraft carrier and other vessels are seen gathering in the South China Sea.

A man from India situated in Singapore tested positive for COVID-19 despite being fully vaccinated. India is also now the second-most infected country with 168,912 cases.

A Japanese mother, identified as Yuki Saito, 27, allegedly threw a hard punch at her son that caused him to fall and hit his head which led to the boy’s death.