Three high school girls, including a 15-year-old, were among the nine people mutilated by a suspected serial killer in Japan, reports said Monday, as one woman described how she had a lucky escape. At ...

As I write this blog, police are hunting a serial killer believed to be responsible for the death of at least two, and perhaps as many as 48, murders in a Japanese hospital. After two elderly men died ...

Takahiro Shiraishi, the Japanese man who has reportedly confessed to murdering and hacking up nine young people in his Tokyo bathroom, was said to be a quiet schoolboy who would grow up to work on the ...

A man convicted of murdering nine people has been executed in the first use of the death penalty in Japan since 2022, the country’s minister of justice said at a news conference Friday. Takahiro ...