Futons and martial arts-trained police play a part in Japan's low gun crime. Just one person was killed with a gun in 2015 – a mob crime boss – and in the same year, just six shots were fired by the ...

Such non-firing guns are sold legally for decorative purposes. Police confiscated a total of 26 illegally reactivated firearms from the homes and related locations of the three men, but no live ...

NARA--A legal loophole has prefectural police scrambling in their ... Shinzo Abe in early July. Although Japan tightly regulates making and possessing firearms, the swords and firearms control ...