A 26-year-old man, who gunned down nine people at a college in Oregon on Thursday, apparently shot himself dead after exchanging gunfire with police officers.

Search and rescue operations continued over the weekend for people still missing following torrential rain and flooding in eastern Japan.

Chinese authorities said on Monday that 3,000 tons of toxic chemicals were stored at a warehouse in Tianjin where two massive explosions killed over 100 people last Wednesday.

A small plane crashed into a residential area in western Tokyo on Sunday morning, setting homes on fire, according to the Tokyo Fire Department.

A man set himself on fire aboard a moving bullet train in Japan on Tuesday, killing himself and a woman while passengers evacuated the smoke-filled coach.

The Japan Pension Service said on Monday the personal information of pension subscribers has been leaked in more than a million cases after its computers came under a cyber-attack.

A 40-year-old man was arrested on Saturday for landing a drone with radioactive sand on the roof of the prime minister’s office to protest the government’s policy to promote nuclear power.

The German co-pilot who is suspected of intentionally crashing an airliner into a French mountainside on Tuesday, killing all 150 aboard, apparently kept a mental illness hidden from his employer.

Following the deaths of patients after liver surgery at Gunma University Hospital, lawyers for bereaved families said on Friday that they may lodge a criminal complaint against the operating surgeon.

The heinous murder of a 13-year-old boy in Kawasaki is fueling debate on a revision of the Juvenile Law, which bans the disclosure of the real name or mug shot of a minor.

A video was posted on Saturday showing a still image of a captured Japanese journalist with an audio recording which says ISIS will free him in exchange for the release of a female militant held in Jordan.

A member of ISIS threatened in a video released on Tuesday that it will kill two Japanese captives, both kneeling in orange clothing, unless Japan pays ransom within 72 hours.