Crime & Courts
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Japan Embassy Message on Chinese Social Media over Boy’s Stabbing Death Draws Responses of Sympathy, Nationalism
SHENZHEN, China — A message posted Thursday on a Chinese social media platform by the Japanese Em...
September 19, 2024
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Boy Stabbed Near Japanese School in China’s Shenzhen Dies; Tension Builds in Japanese Community (Update 1)
SHENZHEN, China — A boy stabbed while walking to a Japanese school in southern China on Wednesday...
September 19, 2024
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Japanese Boy Stabbed on Way to School in Shenzhen, China; Suspect Detained, Interrogated by Chinese Authorities (Update 1)
SHENZHEN, China －A Japanese boy was stabbed on his way to school in southern China on Wednesday m...
September 18, 2024
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President of Japanese Sightseeing Boat Company Arrested Over Kazu I’s Sinking Off Hokkaido’s Shiretoko Peninsula in 2022
Seiichi Katsurada, president of the Shiretoko Pleasure Boat company, has been arrested over the s...
September 18, 2024
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Yamaha Motor Pres. Slashed with Knife by Daughter
Shizuoka (Jiji Press)—Yoshihiro Hidaka, president of Japanese motorcycle maker Yamaha Motor Co., ...
September 17, 2024
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NHK Subsidiary Producer Held for Drunkenly Hitting Station Staffer; Initially Fled Scene But has Now Admitted to Charges
An official with an NHK program production subsidiary was arrested at Shibuya Station on Friday o...
September 14, 2024
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Japan Nationality Recognized for Child of Afghan Refugees; Court Rules Parents Were Stateless When Child Was Born
NAGOYA — The Nagoya High Court has ruled that a child born to Afghan refugees can have Japanese n...
September 13, 2024
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Makoto Nakamura Becomes Japan’s Supreme Court Justice; Former Tokyo High Court President Promises to ‘Face Each Case with Sincerity’
Former Tokyo High Court President Makoto Nakamura took up the post of Supreme Court justice on We...
September 12, 2024
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Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Survivors, Local Govts Express Mixed Feelings Over Ruling; Plaintiffs Vow to Continue to Fight ‘Until Last Breath’
NAGASAKI — Monday’s ruling, in which only some of the plaintiffs who were outside of the atomic b...
September 10, 2024
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Nagasaki Court Recognizes Claims of Only 15 Plaintiffs; Acknowledges Radioactive Black Rain Fell on Villages
NAGASAKI — Of 44 plaintiffs who experienced the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki outside the gover...
September 10, 2024
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2 Liberians Arrested for Alleged Theft; ¥34 Million Cash Swapped with Toy Money in Gold Deal
Two men from Liberia, both in their 40s, were arrested in Tokyo on Monday on suspicion of stealin...
September 10, 2024
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Nagasaki District Court Orders A-bomb Survivor Certificates for Some Plaintiffs, Expanding Their Medical Benefits
NAGASAKI — The Nagasaki District Court on Monday recognized some plaintiffs who when the atomic b...
September 9, 2024
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Gang Boss Slashed on Shinjuku Ward Street, Sustaining Serious Injuries; Slayer at Large
A gang boss was slashed on his right hand and face multiple times with something like a knife by ...
August 30, 2024
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Ex-Diet Member Hirose to Be Indicted for Fraud; Allegedly Pocketed Govt Salary of Sham Secretary
Tokyo prosecutors have decided to indict without detention Megumi Hirose, 58, a former member of ...
August 30, 2024
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Pro Table Tennis Player Arrested for Indecency Against Student’s Mother; Suspected of Touching Her Body Under Guise of Massage
Kaii Konishi, a professional table tennis player in Toda, Saitama Prefecture, was arrested for al...
August 21, 2024
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