Society
Crime & Courts
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4 Attacked with Tent Peg at Supermarket in Osaka
OSAKA - A man wielding a 25-centimeter-long tent peg attacked three customers and a clerk at a super...
April 10, 2023
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Woman Stabbed to Death, Man Hit by Train at Station in Nagoya
NAGOYA — An 18-year-old woman was found stabbed in the chest by a knife-like object at a station in...
April 9, 2023
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Flight Attendants Feeling Turbulence over Passenger Cameras
The 40-year-old flight attendant cannot count how many times a photo of her has been taken without h...
April 8, 2023
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E-Money Fraud Gets 19 Japanese Men Arrested in Cambodia
Nineteen Japanese members of a fraud group have been detained by Cambodian authorities. The Tokyo Me...
April 7, 2023
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Japan Panel Calls for Unified Cybercrime Reporting Service
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Japanese authorities should unify their cybercrime reporting services as many c...
April 7, 2023
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Waseda Univ., Ex-Professor Ordered to Pay Damages for Sexual Harassment
The Tokyo District Court has ordered Waseda University and Naomi Watanabe, a literary critic and for...
April 7, 2023
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Man Arrested Over Theft of Temple Statue in Nagano
NAGANO — Police have arrested a 34-year-old-man Wednesday on suspicion of stealing a popular wooden ...
April 6, 2023
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Japan Man Directs Police to Skeleton Buried in His Yard
CHIBA — Skeletal remains were found in a yard in Kisarazu, Chiba Prefecture, after the 37-year-old r...
March 30, 2023
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3,400 Vietnamese Charged with Crimes in Japan in 2022
Vietnamese nationals accounted for the largest share of the 9,548 foreigners charged with criminal o...
March 25, 2023
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Japan Top Court Acquits Vietnamese National for Abandoning Stillborn Twins
The Supreme Court on Friday acquitted a former technical intern trainee from Vietnam of abandoning t...
March 24, 2023
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Ex-Japanese Lawmaker GaaSyy Ordered to Surrender Passport
Tokyo, March 23 (Jiji Press)—Japan’s Foreign Ministry on Thursday ordered former lawmaker GaaSyy, wh...
March 24, 2023
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Newborn Abandonment Case Highlights Fears Among Foreign Trainees
The Supreme Court will hand down a decision Friday on the appeal of a former Vietnamese trainee conv...
March 22, 2023
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Model Jessica Michibata Arrested on MDMA Charge
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested model Jessica Michibata for allegedly possessing the...
March 21, 2023
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Model Jessica Michibata Held for Alleged MDMA Possession
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested model Jessica Michibata on suspicion of violating th...
March 20, 2023
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Iwao Hakamata’s 1966 Murder Case Set for Retrial as Prosecutors Forgo Appeal
Iwao Hakamata’s high-profile 1966 murder case is set to be retried after prosecutors on Monday decid...
March 20, 2023
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