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Crime & Courts
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Major publishing company Kadokawa’s chairman held in Tokyo Games-related bribery case
The special investigation squad of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office arrested on Wednesda...
September 14, 2022
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Man dies after being stabbed in the chest in Kawasaki
KAWASAKI — A man was found bleeding on a street in Kawasaki Ward, Kawasaki, on Sunday night and was ...
September 12, 2022
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Tokyo Medical University ordered to pay more than ¥18 million over rigging exams
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The Tokyo District Court on Friday ordered Tokyo Medical University to pay a to...
September 10, 2022
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Ukrainian sues Japan firm over harassment
NARA (Jiji Press) — A 27-year-old Ukrainian woman filed a damages lawsuit against a Japanese firm wi...
September 10, 2022
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Prosecutors question ex-Games head Mori
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Tokyo prosecutors have questioned Yoshiro Mori, former president of the Tokyo O...
September 10, 2022
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Takahashi suspected of getting sponsorship fees diverted to acquaintance’s firm
A former Tokyo 2020 organizing committee executive who has been arrested in a bribery probe is suspe...
September 7, 2022
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Ex-Tokyo Games official rearrested on suspicion of receiving bribes from Kadokawa
Haruyuki Takahashi, 78, a former executive board member of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic organizi...
September 6, 2022
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3-year-old girl in Shizuoka Prefecture dies after being left inside daycare bus for hours
Somehow, nobody noticed that 3-year-old China Kawamoto did not get off her daycare bus on Monday mor...
September 6, 2022
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Games bribery case leads to ad agency Daiko
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Public prosecutors raided Daiko Advertising Inc.’s headquarters Monday over a ...
September 5, 2022
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Ad agency suspected of paying bribes for Tokyo Olympics contract
An Osaka-based advertising agency, Daiko Advertising, is suspected of being involved in the bribery ...
September 5, 2022
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Suspect in murder of wife, daughter in Osaka Pref. flees to Brazil, expected to appear before local police
RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazilian national Anderson Robson Barbosa, 33, wanted by Osaka Prefectural Police ...
September 4, 2022
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Ex-Aoki chairman admits to bribing arrested Tokyo 2020 exec, sources say
Hironori Aoki, the former chairman of Aoki Holdings, Inc. who is under investigation for an alleged ...
September 4, 2022
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Arrested Tokyo 2020 exec linked to another shady sponsorship deal
The Tokyo 2020 organizing committee executive board member already under arrest in an Olympics-relat...
September 3, 2022
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Need for legislation on organ transplant NPOs
A Tokyo-based nonprofit organization called the Intractable Disease Patient Support Association is s...
August 27, 2022
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6 govt officials to take pay cuts for wining, dining scandal
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The education ministry on Friday announced punishments for six officials wined ...
August 27, 2022
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