Crime & Courts
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Arrested Tokyo 2020 exec linked to another shady sponsorship deal
The Tokyo 2020 organizing committee executive board member already under arrest in an Olympics-relat...
September 3, 2022
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Need for legislation on organ transplant NPOs
A Tokyo-based nonprofit organization called the Intractable Disease Patient Support Association is s...
August 27, 2022
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6 govt officials to take pay cuts for wining, dining scandal
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The education ministry on Friday announced punishments for six officials wined ...
August 27, 2022
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Major Japan menswear firm ‘pressed for lower sponsorship fees’ after Tokyo Games postponed
Haruyuki Takahashi, a former executive board member of the Tokyo Games organizing committee, may ha...
August 22, 2022
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Mother, daughter stabbed with knife on Tokyo street
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — A woman in her 50s and her teenage daughter were injured after being stabbed in...
August 21, 2022
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Sources: Tokyo Games exec asked IOC to expedite approval of Aoki products
Haruyuki Takahashi, the former Tokyo Games organizing committee executive arrested on suspicion of a...
August 20, 2022
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Takahashi suspected of mediating discounted Games sponsorship contract for Aoki
Haruyuki Takahashi, a former executive board member of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic organizing c...
August 19, 2022
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Sources: Tokyo Games exec pushed for sales period extension for Aoki
Haruyuki Takahashi, the former Tokyo Games organizing committee executive who was arrested Wednesday...
August 19, 2022
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Prosecutors swooped after evidence piled up against Takahashi
The arrest of former Tokyo 2020 organizing committee executive Haruyuki Takahashi and others on Wedn...
August 19, 2022
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Intl sports events a ‘hotbed for misconduct’
In the wake of recent arrests connected with last summer’s Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, there ha...
August 19, 2022
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Aoki executive ‘made 8 requests’ of Tokyo Games board member
A senior executive of Aoki Holdings Inc. compiled a list of requests that was handed in 2018 to a t...
August 18, 2022
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Former Games executive arrested on suspicion of receiving bribes
Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office arrested Wednesday former executive board member of the Tok...
August 17, 2022
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Homemade gun attacks a blind spot for police
Following the shooting death of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the National Police Agency has fou...
August 12, 2022
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Japan-Vietnam criminal investigation cooperation treaty to take effect this month
A mutual legal assistance treaty between Japan and Vietnam to facilitate criminal investigations bet...
August 10, 2022
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Abe shooting suspect Yamagami acted calmly, purposefully ahead of incident
Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot dead just over a month ago on July 8. Since that time, Nar...
August 10, 2022
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