Genie Doi has seen 5-year-olds going to the mall on their own and says it took time to get used to how independent kids are encouraged to be in Japan.

The suspect in a shooting and stabbing incident that left four people dead in central Japan is now in police custody, according to Japanese public broadcaster NHK, citing local police early Friday.

Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said the incident happened around 9 a.m. at a shooting range in Hino City in the central Japanese prefecture of Gifu.

TOKYO -- Two people in central Japan are dead after a military recruit allegedly opened fire on his colleagues. The incident occurred Wednesday at a Ground Self Defense Force-run indoor shooting ...

Japan has one of the lowest rates of gun violence in the world. There were more than four firearm homicides in the U.S. per 100,000 people during 2019, compared to almost zero in Japan.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, who hastily returned to Tokyo from campaign events, called the shooting “dastardly and barbaric.” Advertisement World & Nation ...

Japanese police arrested an 86-year-old suspected gunman Tuesday who had barricaded himself in a post office with two hostages after injuring two people at a hospital earlier in the day.

Investigators work at the site of a shooting in Shikokuchuo City, Ehime prefecture, western Japan Sunday, Jan. 14, 2024. Japanese police were searching Monday for a suspect who fatally shot a ...

The shooting occurred on Wednesday morning at a facility in Gifu, central Japan, the government’s top spokesman Hirokazu Matsuno confirmed at a press briefing.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks during a press conference at the prime minister official residence in Tokyo Friday, Aug. 28, 2020. Abe, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister until ...