Police investigating the events leading to the death of 56-year-old Osamu Takano uncovered new evidence of his abuse at the ...

TOKYO -- Public prosecutors on Dec. 27 indicted two men on suspicion of murder and illegal confinement for allegedly coerced another man to enter a railway crossing, where he was fatally hit by a ...

Takano, 56, manually raised the crossing circuit barrier, stepped onto the tracks on the Tobu Tojo Line in Tokyo’s Itabashi Ward, and was struck by a train. His death was initially believed to ...

Tokyo's Shibuya Ward has decided not to hold a year-end countdown event around its major train station for the fifth straight ...

Two women were fatally struck by a train on Thursday at a Sanyo Electric Railway crossing in Tarumi Ward of Kobe, a port city ...