A former employee of major trading house Itochu Corp. was arrested Sunday on suspicion of embezzling approximately ¥600 million from an affiliate in New Zealand, police said. Hajime Nishiguchi, 32, from the city of Moriguchi, Osaka Prefecture, is believed to have spent the money ...
Three people from Kawasaki were under Metropolitan Police Department custody as of Thursday for allegedly trafficking a Filipino woman in May for sexual exploitation. It is the nation’s first sex-trafficking-related arrest, according to police. The police arrested Hisashi Nakamura, 66, who is apparently self-employed, ...
A former employee of Novartis Pharma K.K. has been arrested for allegedly manipulating clinical study data for one of the company’s drugs.
The head of the company that owns a South Korean ferry that sank and left more than 300 people dead or missing was formally arrested Friday as authorities worried that he may destroy evidence, officials said. Kim Han-sik, president of Chonghaejin Marine Co. Ltd., ...
A 27-year-old man who allegedly made handguns with a 3-D printer was arrested Thursday on suspicion of illegal weapons possession, the first time Japan’s firearms control law has been applied to the possession of guns made by this method. The suspect, Yoshitomo Imura, an ...
The Saitama baby sitter arrested over the death of a child in his care is served a fresh warrant on suspicion of producing child pornography.
A former official at NHK’s television technology research center has been arrested for allegedly submitting a fictitious order to an audio equipment firm. Kimio Hamasaki, 56, a former chief researcher at NHK’s Science & Technology Research Laboratories, was arrested Tuesday along with Hiroyasu Sato, ...
Thai police made their first arrest of a senior leader of antigovernment protests for violating the emergency law Monday as government officials promised to apprehend the movement’s other leaders, too. The arrest further heightens tensions in Thailand’s three-month-old political conflict, in which protesters seeking ...
Police in Rome have arrested a 35-year-old Japanese man suspected of picking the pockets of numerous subway passengers, Italy’s ANSA news agency reported. The man, dubbed the “ninja of the metro,” was arrested Sunday while allegedly trying to steal a mobile phone from a ...
Police in Guangdong province, China, have formally arrested a 70-year-old municipal assembly member from Aichi Prefecture for allegedly possessing illegal drugs, local officials said Monday. Takuma Sakuragi, a member of the Inazawa Municipal Assembly, was taken into custody at Guangzhou’s Baiyun International Airport on ...
The former manager of the Nagano construction employees’ pension fund admits to embezzlement after being arrested in Bangkok.
A 39-year-old Brazilian man facing an arrest warrant for alleged theft and overstaying his visa leaped to his death from a 16-meter roof of an apartment building in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, on Tuesday evening, police said. Frederico Sakamoto, who jumped from the five-story prefecture-run ...
