Police in Tokyo have arrested a 32-year-old man, whose address and occupation are unknown, after he attacked a woman in her 50s with a hammer in the office of the company where he used to work.

The world of sumo could be rocked this month if Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi presents a trophy in the ring, where women have traditionally been banned. AFP looks at the ancient sport, at previous ...

A 24-year-old female office worker was attacked and had her backpack stolen on the sidewalk in front of a public housing complex in Izumi City, Osaka Prefecture, police said Sunday. The incident ...

A 71-year-old woman has pleaded guilty to killing her 102-year-old mother at their home in Kunitachi City, Tokyo, in July last year. During the opening session of her trial on Wednesday, Yoko Komine ...

A 69-year-old woman arrested for a 1999 murder in Nagoya told investigators that she had long feared being caught and felt depressed each year as the anniversary of the killing approached, police said ...

A version of this scene repeated itself all day in Kyoto last month as 300 wrestlers went at it in bout after bout. This was ...

South Korean prosecutors have indicted a Japanese woman without arrest for allegedly forcibly kissing a member of BTS, widely regarded as the world's most famous K-pop group, at an event in Seoul in ...

A woman in her 40s was stabbed by a man in Tokyo's Akasaka district on Sunday, police said, adding that the suspected attacker fled the scene. Around 10:25 a.m., police received an emergency call ...

Saitama Prefectural Police have arrested a 30-year-old man on suspicion of sexually assaulting and robbing a woman in her 20s last month. The incident occurred last around 12:10 a.m. on Oct 28 as the ...

Police in Kure City, Hiroshima Prefecture, have arrested a 42-year-old man on suspicion of attempted murder after he hit a woman in her 40s on the head multiple times with a hammer-like object in his ...

The Hamamatsu branch of the Shizuoka District Public Prosecutors Office has indicted a 41-year-old unemployed man on charges of murder and violation of the Swords and Firearms Control Law for fatally ...