ASAHIKAWA, Hokkaido -- The education board of this northern Japan city has expressed its intention to apply for mutual aid benefits for the family of a then junior high school girl who took her ...

but was sent back to prosecutors this week by the Asahikawa Family Court which ruled that she should be tried as an adult, Sankei Shimbun reported. The suspect and another woman, Riko Uchida, 21, have ...

Asahikawa, Hokkaido – Asahikawa District Court in Hokkaido has sentenced a 20-year-old woman to 23 years in prison in a high-profile murder case in which a female high school student died after ...

ASAHIKAWA, Hokkaido--A third party committee investigating suspicions of bullying at a junior high school in this northern Japan city concluded that a 14-year-old girl found frozen to death had ...

ASAHIKAWA, Hokkaido--A junior high school student found frozen to death at a park here in 2021 almost certainly put her life in such danger because she was so distraught over being bullied at ...