Police have confirmed that the suspect in a murder in Tokyo's busy Takadanobaba district Tuesday kept stabbing the female victim with a knife for more than a minute, it was learned Friday.

Looking ever so cool and dignified in Burberry, Prada and other designer brand clothing, an 86-year-old man from a northern prefecture has become a fashion icon on social media, even beyond Japan.

A 42-year-old man arrested in connection with Tuesday’s fatal stabbing of a 22-year-old woman livestreaming in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward told police he attacked her over an unpaid debt. The ...

This tongue twister is the name of a municipal support center in Japan.