The ceiling of an expressway tunnel in eastern Japan caved in on Sunday morning, crushing vehicles and killing at least five people trapped inside their burning cars.

A 32-year-old man holding five hostages at a bank in Aichi prefecture was arrested on Friday after a special investigation team stormed the building to end the 13-hour standoff.

The 40-year-old stalker who stabbed his former girlfriend to death and hanged himself in Kanagawa on Nov. 6 learned her new surname and the city she lived in when a police officer read out the arrest warrant last year.

All 92 flights in and out of Sendai Airport in Miyagi Prefecture were cancelled on Tuesday after construction workers found an unexploded World War II bomb near a runway.

Osaka prosecutors released a 42-year-old man in September who was indicted for posting a mass murder threat on a website after they found that a third party could have remotely controlled his computer.

Police on Monday arrested a 43-year-old man for forging a medical license and conducting health examinations on some 2,300 people at a Tokyo hospital for more than one year.

Anti-whaling campaigners Sea Shepherd threw brown envelopes containing a white powder and bottles of stinging acid onto a Japanese whaling ship off Antarctica on Monday, hurting three crew members.

Maritime Self-Defense Force Aegis destroyer Atago collided with a small fishing boat in the Pacific off the coast of Chiba Prefecture early Tuesday morning. The two fishermen aboard are missing.