Emperor Naruhito has led Japan’s royal family since his father’s abdication in 2019 Meet Japan's royal family! The Japanese imperial family is thought to be the oldest hereditary royal family in the ...

A Japanese court sentenced a man to death after finding him guilty of murder and other crimes Thursday for carrying out a shocking arson attack on an anime studio in Kyoto, Japan, that killed 36 ...

Sept. 5 (UPI) --A Japanese man facing the death penalty in a 2019 arson at the renowned Kyoto Animation studio confessed Tuesday to setting the blaze that killed 36, saying, "I now think that I went ...

TOKYO — A Japanese man was sentenced to death on Thursday after killing 36 people and injuring almost as many more in an arson attack on a Kyoto anime studio in 2019. The attack made the fire the most ...

Japan on Friday executed a man dubbed the "Twitter killer" who murdered and dismembered nine people he met online, in the nation's first enactment of the death penalty since 2022. Takahiro Shiraishi, ...

Japan on Friday executed a man dubbed the "Twitter killer" who murdered and dismembered nine people he met online, in the nation's first enactment of the death penalty since 2022. He had targeted ...