A Filipino woman is arrested for allegedly abandoning two corpses after Tokyo police found the previous day the bodies of a missing couple underneath their home with apparent knife wounds.
A record 2,322 scams in Japan to steal internet banking IDs and passwords have resulted in unauthorized money transfers totaling a record of around 3 billion yen ($21 million) in the first half of this year, a report by the National Police Agency shows
A 34-year-old mother in Osaka Prefecture has been served a fresh arrest warrant for allegedly swindling a cooperative out of mutual aid money by starving her child to the point of hospitalization for low blood sugar in January, according to police
A Japanese court has sentenced a 25-year-old man to 10 years in prison for scalding his girlfriend's toddler son to death with hot shower water at their apartment in Osaka Prefecture in August 2021.
A suspected senior member of a group that orchestrated scams across Japan from the Philippines was served a fresh arrest warrant on June 29 for allegedly ordering a robbery in Kyoto under the pseudonym "Luffy."