Japanese police

Japanese police on Friday detained a man who had holed up in a building after allegedly killing four people, including two police officers, in a gun and knife attack.

Masanori Aoki, 31, was taken into custody at his house outside a farm near the city of Nakano in the Nagano region, police said.

A Belarusian Olympic athlete who claimed her team was forcing her to return home spent the night under protection and may be seeking asylum, officials said on Aug. 2.

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Sprinter Kristina Timanovskaya, 24, missed her chance of competing in Tokyo when the 200 meters heats went ahead without her in the Olympic Stadium.

Japanese police said Dec. 14 they had carried out several raids, reportedly in connection to alleged shipments of food to North Korea that would contravene sanctions.

The Japanese police have found 8 North Koreans in a yacht port in the northwest of Honshu Island. They explained they were fishermen and their wooden vessel was thrown out on the shore after it broke down, reports novinite.bg. 

However, the suspicions are that they are fugitives of the Pyongyang regime.

Japanese police said on Sep. 1 they had arrested US animal rights activist Ric O'Barry, who trained dolphins for the TV show "Flipper", near the town of Taiji as it kicked off its controversial dolphin hunt.

An unmanned drone, carrying radioactive materials was spotted on the roof of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, according to local Japanese media.

The radioactive material quantity, however, was “small” and “not harmful” to humans, according to the same reports.

Smartphone messenger application Line, which has hundreds of millions of users across Asia, was urging people to change their passwords Thursday as Japanese police investigated the hacking of hundreds of accounts.