Crime & Courts
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Robbery Group Suspected of Involvement in Over 30 Offenses Across Japan
A criminal group suspected of involvement in the robbery and murder of a 90-year-old woman in Tokyo ...
January 25, 2023
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Investigators: Rental car found in connection to Tokyo robbery-homicide
Police have found the rental car that was seen driving near the Tokyo home of the 90-year-old victim...
January 24, 2023
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Fukuoka Murder Suspect: ‘I Don’t Wanna Let Her Go’
FUKUOKA — A man arrested on suspicion of fatally stabbing his ex-girlfriend in Fukuoka a week ago ha...
January 24, 2023
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Kumamoto Court Orders Govt to Pay Damages over Forced Sterilization
A southwestern Japan court ordered the national government on Monday to pay a total of ¥22 million i...
January 24, 2023
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Police Evacuate Residence After Second Phone Seized
Police are guarding an evacuated Tokyo residence after the address was found on the second smartphon...
January 23, 2023
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Tokyo Police Suspect Kanto Robbers also Committed Similar Crimes in Hiroshima, Yamaguchi Prefectures
Members of a group involved in a series of robberies in the Kanto region are suspected of also commi...
January 23, 2023
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Second Smartphone Discovered in Connection with Tokyo Robbery-Homicide
Another smartphone has been discovered containing information connected to the robbery-homicide in w...
January 22, 2023
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Woman, 90, Killed in incident thought linked to recent Kanto area robberies
A 90-year-old woman was found dead Thursday in her house in Komae, Tokyo, in a suspected robbery-ho...
January 20, 2023
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Mother Helped Son Secretly Take Photos of Women in Bathing Facilities
Local police in Nagoya have rearrested an unemployed man and his mother for allegedly taking voyeuri...
January 20, 2023
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Man Arrested Over Fatal Stabbing Revealed to be Former Boyfriend of Victim
FUKUOKA — The man arrested on suspicion of fatally stabbing a woman this week in Hakata Ward, Fukuok...
January 19, 2023
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Suspect Arrested over Woman’s Murder in Fukuoka
FUKUOKA — The Fukuoka prefectural police on Wednesday arrested a man on suspicion of fatally stabbin...
January 18, 2023
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13-Year-Old May Have Stabbed Sleeping Mother Over Smartphone
MAKINOHARA, Shizuoka — A 13-year-old girl taken into custody on suspicion of fatally stabbing her m...
January 18, 2023
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Tokyo High Court Upholds Acquittal of ex-TEPCO Execs over 2011 Fukushima Meltdown
Former executives of what was then Tokyo Electric Power Co. were acquitted on Wednesday by the Tokyo...
January 18, 2023
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Kyoto Company Falsely Identified Products as Electric Bicycles
KYOTO — A Kyoto company was selling bicycles that it falsely identified as electric bikes, in violat...
January 18, 2023
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Man Fined for Telling Woman She Looks Like Coronavirus
A man who insulted a woman by telling her, “You’ve got a face like the coronavirus” was fined by the...
January 17, 2023
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