The mayors of Tokyo's Shibuya and Shinjuku wards, which are expected to attract large number of people ahead of Halloween, held a press conference at the Foreign Correspondent's Club of Japan on October 7. Both wards, which...

On October 7, Shinji Saito, 41, of the comedy trio Jungle Pocket was sent to prosecution by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department for sexually assaulting a woman in her 20's on a shuttle bus. According to investigators,...

A martial artist, Kimura “Philip” Minoru, was apprehended for possession of marijuana. He reportedly told authorities that he had purchased the substance at a train station on the same day of his arrest. Kimura, age 31,...