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YouTube videos released by political group Tsubasa no To showing unruly election antics that led to three arrests have received more than 2.5 million views, according to police.

Around 10 supporters of a Tokyo group bent on disrupting the electoral process were found to be living in the house of one of the leaders, police said.

Police on May 17 arrested leaders of political organization Tsubasa no To over unruly and obnoxious behavior that hindered the campaigns of rival candidates in the Lower House by-election in Tokyo in April.

DNA tests strongly support the claim of a now-deceased man who said he was long-time fugitive Satoshi Kirishima, investigative sources said on Feb. 2.

Tokyo police said they have arrested a gang of touts who pretended to be working for a well-known “izakaya” pub chain to lure customers to unrelated eateries that charged exorbitant prices.

A man claiming to be a former extremist tied to a series of bombings in the 1970s died on Jan. 29 as police were trying to unravel the mystery of the half-century-old case.

The statute of limitations expired for at least 103 deadly hit-and-run accidents from 2013 through 2022, drawing anger and frustration from the victims’ families.

The Supreme Court’s ruling on forced surgeries was regarded as epoch-making for transgender people, but the plaintiff in the case was disappointed with the decision.

A cyclist who died after entering an expressway apparently by mistake was just one of a growing number of people on foot, bicycle or small motorcycle straying onto the prohibited motorways around Japan.

FUJINOMIYA, Shizuoka Prefecture--A 73-year-old man killed himself after allegedly stabbing to death his ailing wife and chronically ill daughter in their hospital rooms here on Sept. 27.