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Prosecutors said Tamotsu Shiiki, 58, had sex with a 12-year-old girl at a karaoke parlor on Aug. 20 after he approached her on the streets, well aware that she was underage.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Dec 5, 2024
Former Nippon Ishin lawmaker pleads guilty to statutory rape
The lawmaker had approached her on the streets of the Kabukicho entertainment district in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on Aug. 20 and was aware she was underage.
Tsutomu Hotta
JAPAN
Dec 4, 2024
Ex-prosecutor Hotta, who probed Lockheed scandal, dies at 90
He also helped decide how to distribute donations made to the Japanese Red Cross Society and the Central Community Chest of Japan after the Great East Japan Earthquake.
Donna Nelson (fourth from left) with her family members. Nelson was found guilty of smuggling drugs to Japan.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Dec 4, 2024
Australian woman given six-year sentence over Japan drug smuggling
Donna Nelson has said that she was a victim of an online romance scam and that she was not aware she was carrying luggage containing illegal drugs.
Donna Nelson says her life was turned upside down when she learned that the man she was falling for had tricked her into smuggling 2 kilograms of methamphetamine into Japan.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Dec 3, 2024
Australian says romance scam tricked her into smuggling drugs into Japan
Donna Nelson says her life was turned upside down when she learned that the man she was falling for had tricked her into smuggling drugs.
Jetstar Japan has been ordered to pay back wages to two cabin crew members for the periods they were suspended.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Dec 3, 2024
Jetstar Japan loses lawsuit over disciplinary action against cabin crew
The Tokyo District Court ruled that the airline's suspension of two cabin crew members in relation to a pay dispute in 2022 was unjustified.
Funai Electric Chairperson Yoshiaki Harada holds a news conference in Tokyo's Chuo Ward on Monday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 3, 2024
Funai's chairman files for its court-led rehabilitation
The court decision came after one of the company's directors filed a "quasi-voluntary bankruptcy" petition in late October.
Supporters of homeless individuals protest against their eviction from a former labor welfare center at its premises in the Airin District in the city of Osaka on Sunday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Dec 2, 2024
Osaka eviction of homeless from former welfare center sparks protest
Protesters clashed with police in defense of the homeless individuals, who they say are day laborers who contributed to building the city.
A stone pillar at Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, on which the word "toilet" was spray-painted in May
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 29, 2024
Chinese man pleads guilty to role in vandalizing Yasukuni Shrine
Jiang Zhuojun said he assisted with the vandalizing to protest against Japan's discharging of treated radioactive water from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant.
Takahiro Imanishi (center), who was acquitted in an appeal trial, smiles during a news conference in the city of Osaka on Thursday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 29, 2024
Osaka court acquits man of fatally injuring 2-year-old daughter
Takahiro Imanishi was originally charged in 2018 with assaulting his adopted daughter in 2017, leading to her death from an acute subdural hematoma.
High-rise buildings in Tokyo. Through faking documents and passports a criminal group conspired to pose as the owner of a real-estate plot and buildings in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward in 2017, defrauding Sekisui House of ¥5.5 billion.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 28, 2024
Real-life ‘Tokyo Swindlers’ ordered to pay ¥1 billion in damages
The Tokyo District Court ruled that the defendants knew they were engaging in a fraudulent scheme in their dealings with Sekisui House.
The Oita District Court sentenced a 23-year-old man to eight years in prison Thursday for causing a fatal crash in the city of Oita in 2021.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 28, 2024
Oita court sentences man to eight years in prison for dangerous driving
Initially filed as a case of negligent driving resulting in death, prosecutors later sought a dangerous driving charge, which carries harsher penalties.
Nobuo Hara, the head of a group seeking to halt the No. 2 reactor at Tohoku Electric Power's Onagawa nuclear power plant, speaks at a news conference on Wednesday in Sendai after the Sendai High Court ruled against them.
JAPAN
Nov 28, 2024
Court rejects request to halt restarted Onagawa nuclear reactor
A judge said there was "no concrete proof" that an incident that could not be handled under an established evacuation plan would occur.
Kunihiko Katsuta (back) is taken to Hyogo Prefectural Police's Tatsuno police station on Wednesday after he was rearrested for a murder that occurred in 2007.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 27, 2024
17-year-old murder case makes progress as Hyogo police rearrest suspect
The suspect, Kunihiko Katsuta, is serving an indefinite prison sentence for the 2004 murder of another girl in Okayama Prefecture.
Hideo Yamada (left), head of the Shizuoka District Public Prosecutor's Office, apologizes to former death row inmate Iwao Hakamata (second from right) at his home in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Wednesday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 27, 2024
Shizuoka prosecutor apologizes to Hakamata following his acquittal
The Shizuoka District Court acquitted Iwao Hakamata last September, ruling that investigating authorities had fabricated evidence in the 1966 murder case.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi comments on use of the death penalty at a news conference at the Prime Minister's Office on Nov. 14.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 27, 2024
Two years pass since Japan's last execution, amid calls for abolition
Between 2012 and 2021, the average period from the finalization of a death sentence to its execution was about seven years and nine months.
A building in the city of Osaka housing the Osaka High Court
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 25, 2024
Osaka court upholds 18-year sentence for murder of ALS patient
Yoshikazu Okubo killed the patient at the request of the victim in 2019, causing her death by acute drug poisoning.
Former Lower House member Masatoshi Akimoto (center) enters the Tokyo District Court in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on Monday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 25, 2024
Former Japanese lawmaker Masatoshi Akimoto denies accepting bribes
Akimoto said that he received the payment in question, but added that the money was "neither a reward for a job nor a benefit."
Kurdish people in Japan in 2015. A court injunction has banned acts that defame the Japan Kurdish Cultural Association and are disrespectful, such as putting up banner flags or handing out fliers with hate speech like “Refugees should go back to their home countries.”
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 22, 2024
Saitama court bans demonstrations over anti-Kurd hate speech
The individuals targeted by the injunction have said things like “Kurds should get out of Japan” at demos around the Japan Kurdish Cultural Association’s office.
The plaintiff-side lawyers hold up papers displaying the judgment details in the lawsuit against the Atsugi Air Base, in Yokohama on Wednesday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 21, 2024
Japanese court rejects injunction against flights at Atsugi Air Base
The lawsuit focused on changes in levels of base-related noise since U.S. carrier-based aircraft were relocated to the Iwakuni base in Yamaguchi Prefecture.
Iwao Hakamata at his home in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, in October. The former boxer was acquitted of a 1966 quadruple murder in September after a retrial.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 21, 2024
Chief prosecutor in central Japan to apologize in person to Iwao Hakamata
The head of the Shizuoka District Public Prosecutor's Office is expected to meet the former boxer recently acquitted of a quadruple murder over his lengthy legal battle.
Naked man’s rampage in Saitama linked to one fatality and 10 injured
Police believe Daisuke Nishimura may have been involved in roughly 20 incidents in the 90 minutes leading up to his arrest, including a fatal hit-and-run and multiple assaults.
Japan set to fine cyclists on the spot for rule violations from 2026
Under new rules, those who use smartphones while riding a bicycle would be subject to the maximum fine of ¥12,000.
Japan brings forward deadline for electronic travel authorization system
Japan is planning to implement by March 2029 a new online screening system in which foreign visitors who don’t need a visa apply for a certification before entering the country.
Built in a flash, Osaka Expo pavilions wrestle with sustainability
Kengo Kuma & Associates oversaw the construction of the Malaysia pavilion, which is encased in interwoven rows of bamboo that appear to ripple.
Social media helps fuel growing 'sex tourism' in Japan
People walk down a street in the red-light entertainment area of Kabukicho in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo on March 31.
Amid uncertain tariffs, is now the time to buy a new iPhone?
An Apple store in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward in September. Prices for the newest iPhone models start at around ¥100,000 ($700) in Japan.
Built in a flash, Osaka Expo pavilions wrestle with sustainability
Kengo Kuma & Associates oversaw the construction of the Malaysia pavilion, which is encased in interwoven rows of bamboo that appear to ripple.
Japan weighs using U.S. rice imports as tariff negotiation tool with Trump
A restaurant owner pours California-grown Calrose rice into a rice cooker at his restaurant in Tokyo
Is Japan’s parliament ready to welcome more youth to its ranks?
Lower House lawmaker Kai Odake in his Tokyo office on Wednesday
Crow meat, goat tartare: Mauvaise Herbe raises its game
Crow meat, shaped into a ball and attached to a foot of the bird, is one of the peculiar offerings of game at Mauvaise Herbe.

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