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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Model Jessica Michibata Arrested on MDMA Charge

    The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested model Jessica Michibata for allegedly possessing the...

    March 21, 2023

  • 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

  • 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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