A man convicted of murder for killing and dismembering nine people in his apartment near Tokyo was executed Friday, Japan's Justice Ministry said. Takahiro Shiraishi, known as the “Twitter killer,” ...

A Japanese court has sentenced to death a man who killed four people in a shooting and stabbing attack in 2023, rejecting the defence's argument that he has schizophrenia. Masanori Aoki, now 34, ...

BEIJING (AP) — A Japanese man was sentenced Wednesday to three and a half years in prison in China on espionage charges, according to the Japanese embassy in Beijing. The embassy did not identify the ...

Eighty-five years after his ticket was first issued for a similar event, a man was allowed to use it at this year's World Expo in Japan. Fumiya Takenawa attended Expo 2025 in the city of Osaka with a ...

SoftBank's massive "all-in" bet on OpenAI, backed by aggressive divestments including Nvidia, is reportedly causing significant financial strain. The Japanese tech giant's shares have plummeted, its ...

Shoji Morimoto explained that he gets a lot of business from people who just need a companion to do something simple with. It can be hard to make friends in life, especially as an adult. With everyone ...

Takahiro Shiraishi leaves a police station in Hachioji, suburbs of Tokyo, in November 2017. (Takuya Inaba/Kyodo News via AP, File) TOKYO (AP) — A man convicted of murder for killing and dismembering ...