Nagano prefectural police detained Masanori Aoki, 31, early in the morning after he was holed up at the home of his father, Masamichi Aoki, chairman of the Nakano city assembly. The son is accused ...

Aoki told investigators he shot the two police officers “because I assumed they would gun me down,” the sources said. Nagano prefectural police on May 27 examined the police car left at the ...

Authorities in Japan say one person is dead and two others are injured after a knife attack Wednesday night outside a train station in Nagano TOKYO -- One person died and two others were injured ...

Investigative sources say Aoki told police he carried out the knife attack because he thought he was being spoken ill of, and he shot the officers because he thought they might shoot him.

Members of police exam the place where the scene of a multiple stabbing in front of JR Nagano Station in Nagano, Nagano prefecture, central Japan, on Wednesday Jan. 22, 2025. (Kyodo News via AP) ...