Society
Crime & Courts
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Tokyo ward files suit to evict 32 shops allegedly squatting in Asakusa
A cluster of shops near Sensoji temple in the Asakusa district of Tokyo is at the center of a disput...
January 18, 2022
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Patient mourns doctor’s death a month after Osaka clinic arson attack
A strong sense of loss continues to linger a month after 25 people were killed in an arson attack at...
January 17, 2022
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Boy, 17, arrested over knife attack on 3 people at University of Tokyo
Two high school students and a man in his 70s were attacked by a knife-wielding assailant at an entr...
January 15, 2022
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MPD to create special unit to crack down on money laundering
The Metropolitan Police Department will establish the nation‘s first “criminal proceeds control sect...
January 11, 2022
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Former security company employee arrested on suspicion of stealing ¥100 mil. from ATMs
Chiba Prefectural Police have arrested a former employee of a security firm on suspicion of stealing...
January 6, 2022
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Clinic arson, murder suspect dies at Osaka hospital
OSAKA — A 61-year-old man suspected of starting a fire that killed 25 people at a clinic in Kita War...
December 30, 2021
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Former care worker rearrested for another murder
MITO (Jiji Press) — The police served a former employee of a nursing home in the eastern prefecture ...
December 30, 2021
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Manufacturer calls for probe after indictment withdrawn
A company president, who had been indicted along with two others for allegedly exporting machines th...
December 27, 2021
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H.I.S. units fraudulently received ¥680 mil. in aid
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Subsidiaries of travel agency H.I.S. Co. have fraudulently received up to aroun...
December 25, 2021
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Osaka arson suspect allegedly prevented victims from escaping
OSAKA — The suspect in a deadly arson attack at a clinic in Kita Ward, Osaka City, allegedly barrica...
December 23, 2021
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Investigators think suspect in Osaka arson tried to seal emergency exit before blaze
OSAKA — Officials investigating the fatal fire at a clinic in Kita Ward, Osaka City, said adhesive t...
December 21, 2021
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Osaka arson suspect said to have spiraled downward after divorce
People who knew Morio Tanimoto, the suspect in the deadly arson attack at a clinic in central Osaka,...
December 20, 2021
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Osaka arson suspect bought gasoline late last month
OSAKA — The suspect in the deadly arson attack on a clinic in central Osaka bought gasoline in late ...
December 20, 2021
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Suspect named in arson at Osaka clinic
OSAKA — Authorities released on Sunday the name of the 61-year-old patient suspected in the deadly a...
December 19, 2021
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Structure of building hampered evacuation in Osaka blaze
OSAKA — The suspected arson attack on a building in central Osaka on Friday was a catastrophe that k...
December 18, 2021
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