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Japanese star charged over Taiwan taxi driver assault
TAIPEI — A Japanese entertainer has been charged with attacking a Taiwanese taxi driver, prosecutors said Saturday, in an incident that has triggered public anger on the island. Singer-actress Makiyo more »
Chinese man charged with arson attack on Japan’s embassy in Seoul
SEOUL — South Korean prosecutors Friday brought charges against a Chinese man accused of hurling petrol bombs at the Japanese embassy in Seoul because his grandmother was forced into wartime more »
Two more arrests made over death of Nepalese man in Osaka
OSAKA — Police said Monday they have arrested a man and a woman for allegedly being part of a gang that beat a 42-year-old Nepalese man to death in Osaka more »
Man in underwear swims palace moat ‘to meet emperor’
TOKYO — A Japanese man who was arrested early Sunday inside the Imperial Palace grounds in Tokyo wearing only his underwear told police he swam across the moat to meet more »
Woman, father held on suspicion of burning baby’s body in park
FUKUI — Police in Fukui on Friday arrested a 23-year-old woman and her 51-year-old father on suspicion of burning the body of her dead newborn son in a park in more »
Nepalese man beaten to death in Osaka, 2 arrested
OSAKA (Kyodo) — A Nepalese man died Monday after being assaulted on a street in Osaka early Monday by two men and two women, police said Tuesday. Bishnu Prasad Dhamala, more »
Body of naked man with genitals sliced off found in apartment
TOKYO — Police on Monday began an investigation into the death of a naked man whose genitals had been sliced off with a kitchen knife, Japanese media reported. The corpse more »
Police capture Chinese inmate who escaped from Hiroshima prison
Photo:ANN TOKYO — Police on Friday captured a Chinese inmate who sparked a nationwide manhunt when he bolted from a Hiroshima prison clad only in his underwear in Japan’s first more »
Police hunting for prison inmate after escape in Hiroshima
HIROSHIMA (Kyodo) — Police are hunting for an inmate who escaped from a prison in Hiroshima on Wednesday and have put him on the nationwide wanted list after obtaining an more »
Ex-president’s acquittal over derailment deaths shows limits in criminal responsibility
Masao Yamazaki, former president of West Japan Railway Co. (JR West), walks to the Kobe District Court on the morning of Jan. 11, ahead of a ruling on a fatal more »
