Tomonobu Kojima, 47, was the first of the four indicted members of the group, whose members went by the nickname 'Luffy,' to ...

A Tokyo court on Wednesday sentenced a senior figure in a crime ring that orchestrated robberies across Japan from the ...

Prosecutors on Tuesday asked a Tokyo court to sentence a senior member of a crime ring to 23 years in prison for allegedly ...

The cases have led to many copycat crimes, and the defendant should be punished severely,' prosecutors stressed.

Tomonobu Kojima, 47, is accused of assisting robberies resulting in injury and other crimes directed remotely by the group known as "Luffy," a name taken from a popular manga character, and carried ...

Tomonobu Kojima, 47, who belonged to the group whose members called themselves "Luffy," said, "There is no mistake" regarding his charges of aiding robberies and committing fraud.

Tomonobu Kojima, 47, is accused of assisting robberies resulting in injury and other crimes directed remotely by the group known as “Luffy”, a name taken from a popular manga character, ...

Tomonobu Kojima, 47, is accused of assisting robberies resulting in injury and other crimes directed remotely by the group known as "Luffy," a name taken from a popular manga character, ...