A Ground Self-Defense Force helicopter crashed into a two-story home in southwestern Japan during a test flight on Monday afternoon, killing one of the two crewmembers and setting the house ablaze.

Coincheck, one of Japan’s largest digital currency exchanges, revealed on Friday that it has lost about 58 billion yen in a hacking attack. The exchange later promised to use its funds to reimburse customers who lost money.

A volcano in eastern Japan suddenly erupted on Tuesday morning. Falling rocks killed a Self-Defense Force member and injured at least 11 others at a nearby ski resort.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a lower court ruling that acquitted a former Aum Supreme Truth cult member over her role in a 1995 parcel bomb attack at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government building.

A former chief priest at a shrine in Tokyo fatally stabbed his older sister, the chief priestess, before committing a suicide on Thursday night. He had warned in a letter to its officials that he would haunt them as a vengeful ghost if they don’t dismiss her.

Kyoto District Court on Tuesday sentenced a 70-year-old woman to death for the murders of her husband and two other elderly men. She has been dubbed as the Black Widow for tricking the victims into drinking cyanide and pocketing

Tokyo police arrested a 27-year-old man on Tuesday after finding dismembered bodies of nine people in his apartment near Tokyo. They searched the place in connection with the disappearance of a young woman who tweeted that she wants to commit a suicide as a group.

Police arrested a 25-year-old man for blocking a van on an expressway sparked by road rage, resulting in a fatal accident. A large truck crashed into the van in the overtaking lane, killing the driver and her husband.

Authorities confirmed on Tuesday that the Las Vegas mass murderer had set up cameras inside and outside of his hotel room. He opened fire at a concert across the street from a suite on the 32nd floor on Sunday night, killing 59 people and injuring more than 500 others.

Police on Saturday arrested a 35-year-old Filipino man on suspicion of killing a female university student in eastern Japan in 2004. Two other Filipinos, minors at the time of the incident, are likely to be placed on the international wanted list.

Spanish police are hunting for a main suspect from Morocco after a van attack in Barcelona that killed 14 people and injured more than 120 others on Thursday. They say he may have crossed the border into France.