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, ...

The Metropolitan Police Department executed the arrest warrants against Yuki Watanabe, 38, and Tomonobu Kojima, 45. The warrants were related to a fraud case that targeted a man in his 70s living ...

The Metropolitan Police Department arrested Yuki Watanabe, 38, and Tomonobu Kojima, 45, on their flight back to Japan. They arrived at Tokyo International Airport at Haneda early Thursday morning.

Two men recently deported from the Philippines believed to have remotely coordinated a string of robberies across Japan were served fresh arrest warrants by police on Wednesday on suspicion of theft ...