TOKYO A man dressed in Batman’s Joker costume and brandishing a knife on a Tokyo commuter train on Sunday stabbed several passengers before starting a fire, which sent people scrambling to escape and ...

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Janet Clement and her family have waited almost 80 years to bring home the remains of her uncle Sgt. Harry Younge, a Copiague native who was among 62 U.S. airmen killed in a Tokyo prison fire at the ...

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TOKYO (AP) — Police and witnesses say a man dressed in a Joker costume and brandishing a knife stabbed at least one passenger on a Tokyo commuter train and started a fire. NHK TV reports the ...