Authorities plan to rearrest Masanori Hirabaru, 43, over the double stabbing in Fukuoka Prefecture in December that left one ...

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

A 43-year-old man arrested over the stabbing of a boy at a McDonald's restaurant in southwestern Japan last month has been ...

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 ...

We've listed our five most read stories on The Mainichi news site, from top to bottom, that were published between Dec. 28, ...

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.

The students were rushed to hospital after the stabbing in the city of Kitakyushu in Fukuoka prefecture ... Violent crime is rare in Japan, which has strict gun control laws.

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 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 ...