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An entertainment facility based on the “Harry Potter” film franchise opening in Tokyo next summer will feature iconic sets intended to bring the popular series to life, operator Warner Bros. Japan LLC announced.

Police arrested a doctor accused of participating in a “sex orgy party” that involved a high school girl at a Tokyo hotel and also referred seven other men to prosecutors including a Buddhist priest. 

Police in Tokyo have arrested a 43-year-old married man on suspicion of killing his 37-year-old pregnant girlfriend at her apartment in March. According to police, Ken Takahashi, a company employee who lives in Soka, Saitama Prefecture, is accused of using a cord to strangle Nozo...

The man, who lives in the city of Soka in neighboring Saitama Prefecture, has admitted to the murder charges, investigative sources said.

Temperatures in parts of Tokyo went above 35 degrees for the second straight day for the first time in June since 1975, when records were first kept, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.

Much of Japan baked under scorching heat June 25 and the domestic record for high temperature was broken in Isesaki, Gunma Prefecture, when the mercury hit 40.2 degrees.

Tokyo is shaping up as a fierce battleground for the upcoming Upper House election this summer, according to political insiders, as newer political parties take on established incumbents.

Tomitaro Makino, known as the

Police in Tokyo have indicted a 59-year-old woman on suspicion of violating the Stimulants Control Law after she attempted to smuggle around two kilograms of cocaine, worth the equivalent of 40 million yen, into Japan at Narita Airport. Police said Harumi Miyauchi, a company exec...

Two men with known yakuza ties were arrested in connection with a blatant act of extorting protection money from a restaurant in the capital.