A group of youths barged into a police station in Tokyo earlier this month and one of them briefly snatched a firearm from a police officer, investigative sources say.
Police have arrested five people in connection with a mass brawl that erupted as a group of around 100 people were dining at a restaurant in a Tokyo skyscraper in October, an investigative source says.
Japanese police plan to develop a unified lost and found database by March 2027 that will allow users to search online for items lost anywhere in the country, the National Police Agency says.
The National Police Agency will revise its general rules for VIP protection for the first time in around 30 years, after flaws in protecting former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe last month led to his fatal shooting, police sources say.
An investigator in western Japan has lost documents containing the names of a crime suspect and around 400 other people related to a case he is working on after he becomes intoxicated and sleeps on the street, police say.