Police on Nov. 30 were searching for a man who seriously injured a noted Japanese sociologist by repeatedly stabbing him on a university campus in Tokyo the previous day. Shinji Miyadai ...

A 36-year-old man arrested for a stabbing spree on a Tokyo commuter train that left ... He left his knife and mobile phone behind. A 19-year-old university student who was in the front car said ...

A total of seven people were killed and 11 injured, including the 25-year-old assailant Tomohiro Kato, in the knife-stabbing spree that took place ... then 21, a senior at Tokyo University of the Arts ...

TOKYO -- The man who was arrested on May 8 over the fatal stabbing of a 25-year-old woman here had previously been arrested on suspicion of stalking her. The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD)'s ...

A man indicted for stabbing multiple passengers on a train in Tokyo nearly two years ago admitted ... the chest and back of a woman who was a university student at the time, and two others.

A high school student in Tokyo was murdered by a former boyfriend in 2013. A female university student who was performing as a singer was stabbed by an "obsessive" fan in 2016 and seriously injured.

TOKYO: Three men were injured on Wednesday in a stabbing and taken to hospital after a woman wielded a knife on a train at Akihabara Station in Tokyo, Japanese police said. The police received an ...

Police in Tokyo have arrested a 51-year-old man on suspicion of killing a woman in her 20s on the premises of the high-rise apartment building where she lived, on Wednesday. Police said Manabu Wakui, ...

A Japanese man who killed seven people in a lorry crash and stabbing rampage in Tokyo in 2008 has been executed. Justice Minister Yoshihisa Furukawa told reporters that Tomohiro Kato was hanged at ...

The University of Tokyo has begun considering increasing its tuition fees, a move that students have opposed as a threat to the freedom to learn and is being closely watched for possible effects ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan says North Korea appears to have fired a missile, alerting residents on Okinawa island to take shelter.