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  • ‘Fake Airbag Exporters’ Arrested in Japan

    Counterfeit airbags falsely labeled with logos of major Japanese automakers were produced and export...

    February 17, 2023

  • Video Shows Dead Sri Lankan Pleaded to Go to Hospital

    NAGOYA (Jiji Press) —Video footage of a Sri Lankan woman who died at an immigration facility in cent...

    February 15, 2023

  • Hakuhodo Executives, Others Allegedly Involved In Games Bid-Rigging

    Four more executives from advertising and event companies including Hakuhodo Inc. are suspected of i...

    February 14, 2023

  • Transport Ministry Official Arrested for Allegedly Pressing Station Emergency Button to ‘Get on Train’

    KOBE — Police on Monday arrested a 35-year-old transport ministry employee on suspicion of pressing...

    February 13, 2023

  • Tokyo Games Bid-rigging Suspect Reports Prospected Bids to Superior

    The arrested former deputy executive director of the Tokyo Games organizing committee’s Operations B...

    February 13, 2023

  • Shinzo Abe Murder Investigation Concluded

     The Nara prefectural police on Monday sent a case on the man suspected of murdering former Prime Mi...

    February 13, 2023

  • Organ Transplant Mediation NPO Claims to be “Japanese Government Authorized”

    The Tokyo-based nonprofit organization that had been engaged in unauthorized organ transplants media...

    February 12, 2023

  • Robbery-for-Hire / Challenges Remain In Discovering True Identities Of ‘Luffy’ And ‘Kim’

    Four Japanese men suspected of being behind a recent string of violent robberies in Japan have been ...

    February 12, 2023

  • Another Patient Death Reported in Suspicious Transplants in Belarus

    A 45-year-old man who underwent a simultaneous kidney and liver transplant surgery in Belarus in ear...

    February 11, 2023

  • Seiko Hashimoto Takes Olympic Bid Rigging Allegations ‘Seriously’

    Seiko Hashimoto, who served as president of the Tokyo Games organizing committee, said she takes bid...

    February 10, 2023

  • 2020 Games Bid Rigging in Japan Clearer via Seized Emails

    Prosecutors have seized emails indicating that Yasuo Mori, former deputy executive director of the 2...

    February 10, 2023

  • Japan’s Organ Transplant NPO Recorded Large ‘Profits’

    A ¥10 million surplus from arranging a single organ transplant overseas is among the irregularities ...

    February 10, 2023

  • Tokyo Police Seize Patient List from NPO in Organ Transplant Probe

    The Metropolitan Police Department seized a document with the names of 150 patients from the Intract...

    February 10, 2023

  • Dentsu Likely To Face Criminal Charges Over Tokyo Games Bid-Rigging

    Advertising giant Dentsu Inc. will likely face criminal charges over alleged bid-rigging related to ...

    February 9, 2023

  • Alleged Robbery Boss Deported from Philippines, Arrested

    Two men, including Yuki Watanabe, suspected to have been involved in a string of robberies across Ja...

    February 9, 2023

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