But many individuals with foreign roots are raising their voices about discriminatory treatment, particularly racial ...

Police are patrolling around the clock in a town in Hokkaido, northern Japan, where a man was killed by a brown bear on ...

TOKYO -- Japan's National Police Agency (NPA) will raise the maximum reward for an anonymous crime report from 100,000 yen (about $680) to 1 million y ...

Officials say an 18-year-old army trainee shot three fellow soldiers at a firing range on a Japanese army base, killing two of them. Trainee is accused of shooting 3 soldiers on Japanese army base ...

National Police Agency Chief Itaru Nakamura in Tokyo on July 12. Nakamura said Thursday he would resign over security lapses in the fatal shooting of former Japanese leader Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo News/AP) ...

Shizuoka Prefectural Police chief Takayoshi Tsuda, left, offers an apology to former Japanese death-row inmate Iwao Hakamada, center, and his sister Hideko, right, for his decades-long suffering ...

Japan police propose ATM curbs for elderly to combat fraud. The plan calls for a daily withdrawal or transfer limit of almost US$2,000 via ATMs for bank accounts belonging to those aged 75 and above.

A Japanese police chief has apologized to Iwao Hakamada for his decades-long suffering because of a wrongful conviction that had kept him on death row decades until last month when he was ...

TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese police chief on Monday apologized in person to Iwao Hakamada for his decades-long suffering that started from an overbearing investigation and wrongful conviction that ...

Japanese police arrested two U.S. service members on Okinawa over the weekend in separate incidents — one on suspicion of breaking into a retirement home and the other of assaulting a Japanese man.