Nissan says it is closing its flagship factory in Oppama, Japan, to cut costs and moving all its production there to another ...

Japan’s national police chief on Thursday said he will resign to take responsibility over the fatal shooting of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at a campaign speech last month.

Three ethnic minority residents of Japan filed a lawsuit this week alleging that the police racially profiled them. The lawsuit alleges the three were subjected to repeated police identity checks ...

National Police Agency Chief Itaru Nakamura’s announcement came as his agency released a report on how it failed to save Abe’s life on July 8 when he was assassinated in Nara in western Japan.

Japan’s constitution explicitly bans race-based discrimination, and the country is a signatory to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.

Police said they arrested a man Friday who had holed up in his father’s house armed with a rifle and a knife after allegedly killing four people, including two police officers, in central Japan.

Japan police are now actively arresting users of overseas online casinos using a crypto “tracking tool” — a first for their government. On November 26 (JST) the Tokyo Metropolitan Police ...

SAPPORO -- Japan's convenience stores are taking on tasks once handled by the dwindling number of local police boxes, instituting measures to respond ...

TOKYO — Japan's national police chief on Thursday said he will resign to take responsibility over the fatal shooting of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at a campaign speech last month.

TOKYO -- Japan's National Police Agency is considering limits on ATM withdrawals and transfers by those aged 75 and older to 300,000 yen (around $1,990) per day to combat the growing issue of ...

Japan police apologize to world’s longest-serving death row inmate 88-year-old Iwao Hakamata, who was wrongfully sentenced to death in 1968 for murdering a family, was set free recently Takayoshi ...

TOKYO -- Some prefectural police forces in Japan will introduce body cameras in fiscal 2025 on a trial basis to verify that officers are carrying out their duties appropriately and to provide ...