The global popularity of blades forged in the western Japan city of Sakai is on the rise, with foreign tourists helping to ...

Police in Osaka have arrested a 24-year-old unemployed man on suspicion of attempted murder after he threw a knife from the balcony of his second-floor apartment at a passerby. According to police, ...

IKEDA, Osaka Prefecture—Norihiro Hongo has sometimes ... stormed the school and stabbed and slashed children with two kitchen knives. Seven female second-graders and one first-grade boy were ...