The United States, Britain and France struck chemical weapons facilities in Syria on Friday following its alleged poison gas attack on civilians. President Donald Trump hailed the intervention by tweeting “Mission Accomplished.”

Thirteen holiday hikers were rescued on Thursday after getting trapped by a heavy snowfall and spent a night outdoors on a mountain trail in western Tokyo. None of them had life-threatening injuries.

Police found a severed head at a lodging facility in Osaka on Saturday. A 26-year-old American tourist, who has been held on suspicion of confining a missing Japanese woman, is being questioned in connection with the case.

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.