Tokyo police have arrested a possible mastermind behind the robbery of a luxury watch store in central Tokyo in May. The suspect is an 18-year-old part-time worker.

A former executive of the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics organizing committee has refused to testify in a trial of a former executive of a major Japanese advertising agency accused of giving bribes.

A man who has come forward as a victim of sexual abuse by the founder of Japanese talent agency Johnny & Associates says he has met its new president and received an apology from him.

A steel frame has fallen at a construction site in central Tokyo, leaving two workers dead and three wounded.

Mourners have visited the site of a care home for people with intellectual disabilities near Tokyo to remember the victims of a deadly stabbing rampage seven years ago.

A gunman has killed two people in New Zealand's largest city of Auckland, hours before the opening match of the Women's World Cup soccer tournament.

A former senior official of the organizing committee for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics has admitted to bid-rigging charges.

Investigative sources say Kabuki actor Ichikawa Ennosuke told police that he and his parents had decided that he would tidy up the scene after the couple committed suicide.

The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department is stepping up measures to prevent assaults by lone offenders who act without connections to organizations.

People have held a memorial service at an elementary school in Osaka Prefecture for the victims of a deadly stabbing rampage 22 years ago.

The Japanese government plans to hold a conference for ministerial officials to study ways to prevent sexual abuse of children in culture, entertainment, sports and other fields.

The Tokyo High Court has ordered a medical university to pay compensation to a group of women who said their entrance exam scores were lowered because of their gender.