FUKUOKA -- Gangs for many years collected "protection money" from businesses in the suburbs between the major cities of ...

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Japanese police continued their search on Monday for the man who fatally stabbed a 15-year-old schoolgirl at a McDonald’s restaurant in southwestern Japan. Witnesses described the assailant as a ...

and the Fukuoka Prefectural Police is searching for him. The girl, third-year junior high school student Saaya Nakashima, 15, from Kitakyushu, and the boy, also 15, were stabbed once in the ...

The assailant who fatally stabbed a junior high school girl and injured another student in a McDonald’s restaurant in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, on Saturday was inside the fast-food store ...

The teenage victims of a deadly stabbing at a McDonald's restaurant in southwestern Japan last weekend are not believed ... of previous disturbances at the fast-food restaurant in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka ...

Japanese police suspect that the assailant in a weekend fatal knife attack at a fast food restaurant in the southwestern prefecture of Fukuoka may ... in the city of Kitakyushu on Saturday night.

KITA-KYUSHU--Once Japan’s most feared yakuza gang, Kudo-kai based here in Fukuoka Prefecture now exists mostly in name only. Its leader is in prison, the group’s ranks are depleted and those ...

The Mitsubishi Chemical Group (MCG; Tokyo) has announced two capacity expansions at its production sites in Japan in response to growing demand for ...

The attack in Kitakyushu city in Fukuoka prefecture occurred in under ... While violent crime is rare in Japan due to strict gun laws, occasional stabbings and shootings still happen, including ...

A 43-year-old unemployed man was indicted Friday on suspicion of attempting to kill a 15-year-old high school boy at a McDonald’s outlet last Saturday in Kitakyushu ... station to the Kokura branch of ...