October 18, 2025

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The Tokyo High Court held that, “even taking the woman’s consent into account” for sharing her personal information, the officers breached their duty of care and acted unlawfully.

JAPAN / Crime & Legal

Oct 17, 2025

Tokyo ordered to pay damages to South Asian woman over police response

A park dispute led police officers to provide the woman’s personal details to a man who went on to make abusive social media posts against her.

Tokyo police believe the man made about 20,000 sexually explicit images of 262 women, such as actors and idols, and amassed sales of ¥1.2 million between October last year and September this year.

JAPAN / Crime & Legal

Oct 16, 2025

Man held in Japan on suspicion of creating female celeb deepfakes made with AI

It is the first time for police in Japan to crack down on sexual deepfake images of celebrities created using generative artificial intelligence.

Investigators enter the elderly care facility where two female residents were killed in Tsurugashima, Saitama Prefecture, on Thursday.

JAPAN / Crime & Legal

Oct 16, 2025

Suspect in murders at Saitama facility allegedly snuck in using old passcode

Police suspect Toya Kimura, 22, a former worker at the care facility, used prior knowledge of the building's security system to gain entry.

The Kobe District Court in Kobe

JAPAN / Crime & Legal

Oct 15, 2025

Death penalty sought over fatal crossbow attack

The prosecution said that the defendant's autism spectrum disorder did not significantly affect his motivation and that his acts were planned.

The Saitama Prefectural Police headquarters in the city of Saitama. Police have apprehended a former employee of a care facility in Saitama Prefecture following the deaths of two residents who were discovered bleeding and unconscious on their beds early Wednesday.

JAPAN / Crime & Legal

Oct 15, 2025

Former employee of Saitama care home held after deaths of two residents

A staffer at the facility in Tsurugashima called the police after a nurse found the two women in their 80s and 90s bleeding and unconscious on their beds.

Masanori Aoki, 34, has been handed the death penalty for killing four people, including two police officers, in the city of Nakano, Nagano Prefecture, in 2023.

JAPAN / Crime & Legal

Oct 14, 2025

Nagano court sentences man to death for quadruple murder

Presiding Judge Masashi Sakata said the crime “leaves no room for leniency, and deserves the highest level of condemnation.”

The city of Izumisano, in Osaka Prefecture, has successfully challenged a decision by the central government to cut special tax grants based on its revenues under the <i>furusato nōzei</i> (hometown tax donation) system.

JAPAN / Crime & Legal

Oct 10, 2025

Government cuts to Izumisano's tax grants illegal, Osaka High Court rules

The city in Osaka Prefecture raised about ¥49.8 billion in donations in fiscal 2018, the most among the local governments under the hometown tax donation program.

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Rock group The Yellow Monkey played K-Arena Yokohama in June as part of a nationwide tour. Concerts are increasingly popular in the age of social media as users value in-person experiences.

Inside Japan’s arena boom: Sports, sound and city-building

By Patrick St. Michel

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