WASHINGTON – A Navy lieutenant held for 507 days in a Japanese jail over a fatal car crash while deployed to the largest overseas US naval base is headed back to America after Tokyo agreed to transfer ...
Japan has recently carried out reforms to its prison system, but inside Tochigi, its biggest women's prison, strict ...
The wife of a Navy lieutenant is pleading with President Biden to secure her husband's release after he was sentenced to three years behind bars in Japan. The wife of Navy Lt. Ridge Alkonis joined ...
Japanese nationals are increasingly fearful about working in China after a court in Beijing sentenced a Japanese employee to ...
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TOKYO (AP) — Japan's Justice Ministry disclosed Friday that more than 20 prison guards had repeatedly pushed, slapped and used other forms of physical violence against a group of inmates at a prison ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Navy officer jailed in Japan over a car crash that killed two Japanese citizens has been transferred into American custody and was returned Thursday to the United States, where he ...
President Joe Biden is facing a growing chorus of voices calling on him to pardon U.S. Navy lieutenant Ridge Alkonis, who is facing negligent driving charges in relation to a car accident that killed ...
A Dana Point couple, whose son, Navy Lt. Ridge Alkonis, is serving prison time in Japan following a car crash, hopes a visit by the Japanese Prime Minister this week with President Joe Biden could ...
A thief who fled an open jail in Japan sparking a high-profile manhunt involving some 15,000 officers was taken into custody on Monday, police said, more than three weeks after his escape. Tatsuma ...
The rooms are filled with elderly residents, their hands wrinkled and backs bent. They shuffle slowly down the corridors, some using walkers. Workers help them bathe, eat, walk and take their ...