Police recorded 13,754 shoplifting cases in pharmacies in the first 11 months of 2024, the Yomiuri newspaper reported. It added that when Japanese suspects were detained, they were caught in ...

Four Vietnamese men and women in their 30s and 40s, who have been indicted on a charge of theft, came to Japan between Sept. 21 and 23 last year as employees of a company owned by the woman.

Police sent files on the suspected theft to the Himeji branch ... a professor of public education at Japan Women’s University in Tokyo, believes that the punishment for the principal is ...

Japan has not carried out an execution since July 2022. The September 2024 acquittal of Hakamata Iwao, who spent decades on death row, has sparked fresh debate about capital punishment. Two and a ...