Takahiro Shiraishi’s victims included young women considering suicide, whom he lured to his home using social media and ...

Takahiro Shiraishi was put to death on Friday, eight years after body parts were found in coolers at his home outside Tokyo.

Takahiro Shiraishi was executed for the killings in 2017 of nine victims, most of whom had posted suicidal thoughts on social ...

SHIRAHAMA, Japan — Thousands of fans bid a teary farewell Friday to a family of four giant pandas at a zoo in Japan’s coastal ...

Japan's private-sector rice imports rocketed higher in May as the country grapples with supply shortages that have become a ...

No fentanyl had been seized at Japan's borders in the six years through 2024, Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato said on Friday, ...

Japan's Justice Ministry says a man convicted of murder for killing and dismembering nine people in his apartment near Tokyo ...

Japan condemned US President Donald Trump for comparing recent US strikes on Iran to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ...

Japan has executed a man dubbed the “Twitter killer,” who was convicted of murdering and dismembering nine people, mostly ...

A bear was spotted running across the tarmac at Japan's Yamagata airport on Thursday morning. Akira Nagai, deputy manager of ...

Airport staff used a car to chase it away and closed the runway again, with the bear still at large somewhere in the facility ...

Global demand for matcha tea, with its vivid green colour and earthy taste, has gone supernova since the fall. But the ...