Serial lingerie thief arrested in Japan
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Police found more than 4,000 pieces of lingerie in the home of a Japanese construction worker who used climbing skills developed on his job to steal women&#39;s underwear.
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An American civilian employee of the U.S.  military in Japan was arrested on Friday on suspicion of raping  a Japanese woman on the island of Okinawa, home to the largest  U.S. military presence in Japan, a police spokesman said.
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A Briton has been arrested in connection with the theft of computer code for key net hardware.
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Chinese-born actress Bai Ling was arrested for shoplifting at Los Angeles International Airport after a gift shop employee accused her of stealing two magazines and a pack of batteries, police said on Thursday.
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SAN JOSE -- Stealing the merchandise was the easy part. The ring of young men and women had become pros at snatching cashmere sweaters, perfumes and other expensive items from the likes of Abercrombie & Fitch, Victoria's Secret and Pottery Barn.
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A suspected crime boss sought by the FBI for years has been arrested on a Moscow street in connection with a tax evasion probe into owners of a cosmetic-shop chain, officials said Friday.
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A Japanese man accused of using file-sharing software to release movies over the Internet received a suspended prison sentence Tuesday.
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Japanese police are scratching their heads over how a gold bathtub worth 120 million yen ($988,100) and weighing some 80 kg was stolen from a hotel near Tokyo.
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Hong Kong authorities have made their first arrest for allegedly sharing copyrighted files over the Internet, a spokeswoman said.
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A teacher at a Tokyo school was arrested on Monday for making a group of boys undress at knifepoint and stealing their underpants, Kyodo news agency reported.
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The Canadian schoolteacher who became the world's most wanted suspected pedophile was arrested by police Friday in northeastern Thailand, police said.
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For years, Japan saw kidnapping victim Megumi Yokota only as an innocent child, a fresh-faced junior high badminton player in school uniform, black hair framing her cheeks. Now for the first time, photographs are on display of Yokota's life after her 1977 abduction by North Korean spies, as she grew from a teenager into an adult imprisoned behind the reclusive regime's wall of secrecy.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Masked thieves armed with a chisel stole the penis of a wooden Maori figurine, or tiki, at the entrance of a public library in northern New Zealand, police said.
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A British teenager was arrested Thursday after tying herself to a staircase at the Japanese embassy in London in a protest over whaling, she said.
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Specifically, Avnish Bajaj, CEO of Baazee.com, owned by eBay, was arrested on Friday concerning the sale of video showing teenagers engaged in oral sex.
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A Briton and a Japanese have been arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle 60,000 Ecstasy tablets into Japan, an official said Friday.
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Japanese police arrest two men for allegedly trying to import three tons of ivory, violating an international ban.