Police arrest five individuals including four teenagers after the body of a 17-year-old boy with Chinese nationality was found in a central Japan lake earlier this month.
Four elderly hikers, two men and two women, have been found dead near a trail on Mt. Asahi in Tochigi Prefecture, eastern Japan, following a distress call the previous day, according to police.
The number of traffic accident deaths in Japan rose 2.1 percent to 1,182 in the first half of 2023 from a year earlier, marking the first increase in 10 years for a January-June period, according to recent police data.
An 85-year-old woman has been found dead in her home in northeastern Japan and police are investigating the incident as a possible robbery and murder, according to officials