The Tokyo High Court overturned a guilty verdict and acquitted on Friday a former cult member convicted of a parcel bombing of the Tokyo metropolitan government in 1995.

Extremists with British accents were reportedly heard celebrating moments after a Russian plane disintegrated in mid-air on October 31st.

A 26-year-old man, who gunned down nine people at a college in Oregon on Thursday, apparently shot himself dead after exchanging gunfire with police officers.

Search and rescue operations continued over the weekend for people still missing following torrential rain and flooding in eastern Japan.

Chinese authorities said on Monday that 3,000 tons of toxic chemicals were stored at a warehouse in Tianjin where two massive explosions killed over 100 people last Wednesday.

A small plane crashed into a residential area in western Tokyo on Sunday morning, setting homes on fire, according to the Tokyo Fire Department.

A man set himself on fire aboard a moving bullet train in Japan on Tuesday, killing himself and a woman while passengers evacuated the smoke-filled coach.

The Japan Pension Service said on Monday the personal information of pension subscribers has been leaked in more than a million cases after its computers came under a cyber-attack.

A 40-year-old man was arrested on Saturday for landing a drone with radioactive sand on the roof of the prime minister’s office to protest the government’s policy to promote nuclear power.

The German co-pilot who is suspected of intentionally crashing an airliner into a French mountainside on Tuesday, killing all 150 aboard, apparently kept a mental illness hidden from his employer.