1+ hour, 28+ min ago  (393+ words) A nurse was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of murdering an elderly patient by allegedly injecting excrement into his intravenous tube during a night shift at a hospital near Tokyo, police said. Miyuki Furukawa, 51, who was working at the Chiba Prefecture…...

1+ hour, 29+ min ago  (468+ words) A group of 26 Meta employees has sued the company, claiming it used artificial intelligence systems to select people for layoffs, disproportionately targeting those on medical, parental or family leave. They are among the 8,000 employees, or about 10% of its workforce, Meta…...

1+ hour, 28+ min ago  (338+ words) A court has sentenced a 44-year-old man to 16 years in prison for killing a woman by stabbing and slashing her at least 55 times while she was livestreaming on a Tokyo street in March last year. The Tokyo District Court found…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (907+ words) A man has been arrested in Tokyo’s Kabukicho nightlife district over alleged street touting, as police warn overseas visitors about scams involving restaurant and bar “customer pullers” known as kyakuhiki. Investigators believe the man may be connected to a group…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (417+ words) The writer E Jean Carroll has collected over $5.6 million that a jury awarded in her sexual abuse and defamation lawsuit against President Donald Trump, court records and her lawyers said. The payment — representing the $5 million jury award, plus interest — was…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (510+ words) A district court on Tuesday rejected a request by residents of Kyoto Prefecture to halt the operation of nuclear reactors at a power plant in a neighboring area in western Japan, after they argued that an accident could cause irreparable…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago  (113+ words) Japan Today Kabuki actor Kosaburo Nakamura, 77, is being voluntarily questioned by police in Tokyo over an alleged hit-and-run incident, in which the vehicle he was driving struck and injured a woman According to police, the incident occurred in Shinjuku Ward…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago  (1843+ words) A Tokyo ward has installed outdoor AI cameras with facial recognition capabilities to help locate missing children and elderly people, a move aimed at improving public safety but also raising privacy concerns. The ward believes that this is the first…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago  (547+ words) U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has turned over to Minneapolis prosecutors evidence it had withheld on immigration agents' killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti and ‌wounding of a Venezuelan man during deportation sweeps in January, local officials said on Monday....

2+ day, 1+ hour ago  (635+ words) The killing of former British politician Ann Widdecombe is being investigated as a terrorist act, police said Monday. A 28-year-old man in custody on suspicion of murder was rearrested on suspicion of commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism,…...