Warning: This article contains details that readers may find distressing Two people have died in the Japanese city of Yokohama after a teenage girl jumped to her death from a shopping centre ...

The death toll from Japan's devastating New Year's Day earthquake has risen from to more than 160, authorities say. Efforts are continuing to find more than 100 people who remain missing a week later.

Kazuo Umezu, regarded as Japan’s “God of horror manga,” died on Oct. 28 in Tokyo at 88 years old. Born in Wakayama Prefecture ...

TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese police chief on Monday apologized in person to Iwao Hakamada for his decades-long suffering that ...

This is a rather quirky argument, and not normally put forward. Japan uses the death penalty sparingly, executing approximately 3 prisoners per year. A unique justification for keeping capital ...

Japanese manga artist Akira Toriyama ... He is also named as a writer on the show and the statement quotes him as saying daima, an invented word roughly meaning "evil" in English. Fans of the ...

U.S. Army National Guard and Filipino soldiers shown at the outset of the Bataan Death March. Allied forces were forced to surrender to the Japanese on April 9, 1942, the largest surrender in U.S ...

First serialised in 1984, Dragon Ball is one of the bestselling manga franchises of all time and has spawned countless anime series, films and video games. Toriyama died on March 1 because of a ...

False charges threatening people's lives The latest incident brought into relief problems with Japan's death penalty system. Members of an association studying Japan's death penalty, with the ...

A Japanese court has acquitted 88-year-old Iwao Hakamata, the world's longest-serving death row inmate, more than 50 years after he was wrongfully convicted of murder. Hakamata was sentenced to ...

He was arrested in August 1966, in the killing of an executive at a miso bean paste company and three of his family members in Hamamatsu, central Japan. He was initially sentenced to death in a ...