Crime & Courts
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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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Japan Issues Emergency Measures to Fight Crime Tied to ‘Dark’ Side Jobs
Amid the string of robberies across the nation allegedly committed mainly by young people who respon...
March 17, 2023
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Prosecutors to Challenge Decision to Reopen 1966 Murder Case
Tokyo, March 16 (Jiji Press)—Public prosecutors plan to file a special appeal against the most recen...
March 17, 2023
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