western Japan, breathed a sigh of relief early Monday after police announced they'd arrested a 33-year-old man on suspicion of stabbing one of their officers and stealing his loaded gun.

Japan tightly regulates making and possessing firearms, but the July 8 slaying ... Nara prefectural police said Yamagami had watched videos like this when he built his own arsenal of homemade ...

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 ...