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CRIME

WORLD / Society
Apr 3, 2014
New Zealand tops world social index; Japan leads in health
Japan leads the world in health and wellness in a new global index that ranks countries by social and environmental performance.
JAPAN
Mar 6, 2014
Organized crime members drop to lowest level since 1992
The number of people belonging to yakuza groups in Japan has declined to its lowest level since the anti-organized crime law took effect in 1992, a national police survey showed Thursday.
EDITORIALS
Feb 13, 2014
Transparent interrogations
It is time to refute, once and for all, the objections of police and prosecution officials and move forward to the day when the entire interrogation process for criminal susepcts, in principle, is recorded electronically.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 13, 2014
Man admits slaying teen girlfriend
An unemployed 35-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly stabbing his 17-year-old girlfriend to death at his home in Hachioji, Tokyo, the Metropolitan Police Department said Thursday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Feb 3, 2014
Sapporo girl, 9, missing for week found safe; man in custody
A 9-year-old Sapporo girl missing for nearly a week is found safe at a nearby apartment rented by a man with apparent mental issues.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Jan 31, 2014
Japan's cops: keeping the nation safe, in their Keystone kind of way
Most Japanese have a good cop/bad cop view of their law-enforcement services. They see a sinister side — one of smoky back rooms, coerced confessions and trumped-up charges — and they see a soft side: those helpful cops-in-the-box dotted throughout the land.
EDITORIALS
Jan 25, 2014
Crime rate dips again in Japan
Although Japan's relatively low crime rate has just gotten lower, the police need to take the rising problems with frauds and scams seriously.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jan 10, 2014
Crime rate in Japan falls for the 11th straight year
The number of murders and attempted murders recorded by police in 2013 declined 8.8 percent from the previous year to a postwar low of 939, the National Police Agency said.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Jan 4, 2014
Cash, sex, the mob? Weeklies seek clues in gyōza king's killing
Just when it was starting to look like 2013 would end with minimal gun violence in Japan, two socially prominent individuals were shot dead in the space of two days.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 29, 2013
Companies cash in on women's fear of stalkers
With the number of crimes involving stalking on the rise, a variety of new services and goods are targeting women who fear they might be attacked.
BUSINESS
Dec 26, 2013
Mizuho ordered to halt affiliated loans for month
The Financial Services Agency orders Mizuho Bank to suspend some of its 'affiliated loans' for a month for doing business with organized crime.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 19, 2013
'Gyoza' chain chief shot dead outside HQ
The president of the nationwide Ohsho 'gyoza' (dumpling) restaurant chain is gunned down in front of the company's headquarters in Kyoto.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Dec 11, 2013
Divisive conspiracy bill to get another try
Lawmakers will once again be asked to pass legislation making it illegal to participate in plotting a serious crime, such as murder, regardless of whether the crime is ever committed, a government source said.
JAPAN
Nov 21, 2013
Halloween trick-or-treating makes for unlikely crime prevention tool
With a creative twist, the American practice of ringing doorbells on Halloween to ask for candy has become a crime prevention tool in some Japanese communities, where it helps to promote exchanges between kids, the elderly and others in the neighborhood.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 14, 2013
German on lam nabbed by cops
A 25-year-old German man was arrested Thursday after escaping from the Miyagi Prefectural Police and being placed on a nationwide wanted list.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 13, 2013
Mizuho has more loans to the mob
Mizuho Bank has outstanding loans to yakuza and other antisocial elements apart from car loans extended through its affiliate credit company, Orient Corp., President Yau00adsuu00adhiu00adro Sau00adto tells the Diet.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 12, 2013
Sumitomo Mitsui affiliate may have extended loans to crime groups
Loans screened by a credit company under Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group are suspected to have been extended to people linked to organized crime and other antisocial forces, Sumitomo Mitsui President Koichi Miyata says.
EDITORIALS
Oct 15, 2013
Get to the bottom of shady loans
The inability of Japan's third-largest bank to break the habit of approving car loans for yakuza reflects poor corporate governance and besmirches the reputation of the financial industry.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 10, 2013
Man rams home with large truck, attacks dwellers
A 40-year-old man was arrested Thursday after driving his truck into a house in Kawaguchi, Saitama Prefecture, and attacking the three residents with a saw, police said.
JAPAN / Media / DARK SIDE OF THE RISING SUN
Oct 5, 2013
Has business blackballed the yakuza? Don't bank on it
The Financial Services Agency (FSA) publicly spanked Mizuho Bank last month by slapping it with a "business improvement order" for letting Japan's organized crime groups use its facilities. At least $2 million in illegal transactions were cited.
Tokuryū, a new crime menace in Japan, emerges from the shadows
The National Police Agency coined the term "tokuryū" to classify individuals involved in dark part time jobs and quasi-gangsters, using the words "tokumei" (anonymous) and "ryūdo" (fluid) to reflect their characteristics.
Thanks, tourists. Views of Mount Fuji are now blocked.
Tourists pose in front of a convenience store with Mount Fuji on Friday in the town of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture. Local residents are upset over littering, overcrowding and the inconvenience caused by the visitors.
Is Modi’s party heading for a stunning election loss?
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's campaign tactics have escalated, including anti-Muslim rhetoric and fearmongering, reflecting his ruling party's desperation.
Two more arrested over brutal murder of couple in Tochigi
A vehicle carrying Seiha Sekine, the 32-year-old common-law husband of the deceased Tokyo couple's first daughter, leaves a police station in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward on Tuesday.
After blockbuster boxing victory, what next for ‘Monster’ Inoue?
Naoya Inoue celebrates his victory over Luis Nery in their IBF-WBA-WBC-WBO super bantamweight title boxing match at Tokyo Dome on Monday.
Stormy seas ahead as Beijing and Manila trade barbs over secret deal
Philippine Marines wave to Philippine Navy personnel and the media during a resupply mission at their military outpost, the BRP Sierra Madre, a warship run aground in the disputed Second Thomas Shoal in 1999, in the South China Sea, in March 2014.
Unlike 10 years ago, Japan's new security bill sparks little debate
The Lower House starts discussing a security clearance bill on April 19 in Tokyo.
After blockbuster boxing victory, what next for ‘Monster’ Inoue?
Naoya Inoue celebrates his victory over Luis Nery in their IBF-WBA-WBC-WBO super bantamweight title boxing match at Tokyo Dome on Monday.
Xi bristles as Macron and von der Leyen urge China to do more on Ukraine
French President Emmanuel Macron, Chinese leader Xi Jinping and European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen walk after their meeting in Paris on Monday.
How a Japanese scientist is turning the climate crisis into music
A screencap of a performance of Hiroto Nagai's “String Quartet No. 1 ‘Polar Energy Budget’” by the PRT Quartet

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