Police arrested a 27-year-old firefighter on suspicion of setting a warehouse in Hino, Tokyo, on fire early Saturday, the police said.

In 2001, an intentionally set blaze in Tokyo's Kabukicho entertainment district killed 44 people — the country's worst known case of arson in modern times. Japan Facebook ...

TOKYO — The suspect in a 2019 arson attack at an animation studio in Japan pleaded guilty Tuesday on the first day of his trial to the murder of 36 people.

A 24-year-old man dressed in Batman's Joker costume attacked passengers on a Tokyo train line on Sunday evening, injuring 17 people as many party-goers headed into the city centre for Halloween ...

At least 12 cases of arson involving small trucks, motorbikes, bicycles and vacant houses have been reported in Tokyo's Kita and Adachi wards since Friday. Police said Sunday that six fires were ...

Ash and charred wood still lined the 10-step concrete staircase ascending toward the entrance of Higashi Honganji Buddhist Temple in Little Tokyo on Friday afternoon, the remnants of vandalism and ...

“If it was arson, it could happen anywhere, any time,” he said. “That makes me worried.” The Japanese police reported 786 cases of arson in 2020, about half as many as a decade earlier.

At least 33 people have died in a suspected arson attack at a renowned animation studio in the ... The death toll from Thursday’s fire was greater than the Tokyo sarin gas attack on a subway in ...

The fire marked the worst mass killing in Japan since a 2001 arson attack on a building in Tokyo’s Kabukicho district, which killed 44 people.

The fire was Japan's deadliest since 2001, when a blaze in Tokyo's congested Kabukicho entertainment district killed 44 people, and it was the country's worst known case of arson in modern times ...

An arson attack at an animation studio in the city of Kyoto in 2019 killed 36 people and injured dozens. A 2001 fire at a building in Tokyo's Kabukicho entertainment district killed 44 people.