I killed mayor - Japan 'gangster'
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Alleged gangster Tetsuya Shiroo admits shooting Nagasaki's mayor last April - a killing that shocked Japan.
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An executive allegedly involved in a bid-rigging scam that has been linked to the suicide of Japan's agriculture minister leaped to his death Tuesday, officials said. The deaths have added to the pressure on a government struggling against a series of scandals.
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Per l'omicidio di Marco Biagi, ucciso il primo marzo 2002
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Death row inmate Yoshio Fujinami had  hoped his execution would be the last carried out in Japan.
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A JAPANESE hostage abducted in Iraq has been killed, the Kyodo news agency reported last night. A body found near the town of Tikrit was identified as that of Shosei Koda, a 24-year-old
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Los Angeles - A &quot;trigger-happy&quot; street gangster killed the sister of US tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams as he defended a Los Angeles crack house from gangland rivals, a court heard on Monday.
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TOKYO -- A report says the Japanese government has confirmed that a decapitated body found in Iraq is that of a Japanese man taken hostage by Islamic militants earlier this week.
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Politics: 10 November 2004, Wednesday. Unidentified assaulters have beaten up the mayor of Varna municipality Avren on his way out of his home Wednesday morning.
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A serial strangler who tormented his victims and taunted a town with his murderous boasts before disappearing for 25 years has resurfaced with proof that he had killed again -- in 1986.
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A man convicted of murdering eight children in a frenzied knife attack at a primary school three years ago was hanged in Osaka yesterday, in Japan&#39;s first execution for a year.
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Tycho:  I understand he's posting these around his neighborhood, now, and I mean real Gabe, not the jpeg Gabe like you might see sur le web. If you did find it, I wouldn't bring it back to him. The most likely scenario is that he will assume that you're the one who stole it, and your "reward" will be a savage karate style maneuver delivered to your "sack of toys."
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For one hot, bloody weekend in July, it was like old times in the nation's former murder capital. Eleven people died violent deaths over a 48-hour period. One was a hospital worker gunned down by muggers near Chinatown. Another was shot and killed in a drug-related dispute.
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Two Italian mobsters, a bodyguard, a  financier and his girlfriend were acquitted on Wednesday of the  1982 murder of Roberto Calvi, found hanging from a London  bridge and known as &quot;God&#39;s banker&quot; for his Vatican links.
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KIRKWOOD, Mo., Feb. 7 -- A gunman with a history of acrimony against civic leaders stormed City Hall during a council meeting Thursday night, killing two police officers and three city officials before law enforcers fatally shot him, authorities said. The mayor was critically injured in the rampage,...
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Divining how to treat the ally who tried to kill you in Anbar Province.
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Tokyo drift A Japanese policeman has been fired after he was held responsible for accidentally leaking confidential information via peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing software installed on his work PC.â¦
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Charles Lee "Cookie" Thornton always seemed to be fighting City Hall. Even before he shot and killed five people at a City Council meeting, thousands of dollars in parking tickets and citations piled up against the asphalt company owner. He raged at meetings over the years that he was being persecuted, mocking city officials as "jackasses" and accusing them of having a racist "plantation mentality."