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FRAUD

A 38-year-old man in Aichi Prefecture has been arrested for allegedly fraudulently receiving refunds from a food delivery service by falsely claiming his orders never arrived.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 2, 2025
Nagoya man suspected of placing 1,095 fraudulent food delivery orders
The 38-year-old is alleged to have signed up and then canceled membership for the Demae-can service repeatedly, making false claims to avoid payments totaling about ¥3.7 million.
National Police Agency Commissioner-General Yoshinobu Kusunoki (right) hands a letter of appointment to Akira Uno, head of the agency's newly created information analysis office, at the agency in Tokyo on Wednesday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 1, 2025
Police in Japan launch teams to combat tokuryū crime groups
Members of the groups are connected through social media for illegal activities such as fraud and robbery.
Former lawmaker Akira Ishii has been indicted without arrest for alleged fraud involving state-paid salaries of a secretary.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 1, 2025
Akira Ishii, former lawmaker, indicted without arrest over alleged fraud
Ishii is alleged to have defrauded the state of some ¥8 million by registering a male relative as a public secretary.
The internal affairs ministry in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward
JAPAN
Sep 28, 2025
People warned of census-related fraud as survey begins
The census aims to cover everyone living in Japan, regardless of nationality, in order to compile up-to-date statistics on the country's population.
Yasuhiro Tsuyuki, former commissioner-general of Japan's National Police Agency, speaks during an interview on Aug. 12 in Tokyo.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 21, 2025
Ex-police chief pins hopes on new 'tokuryū' measures
Conventional methods do not work against such groups because they recruit using encrypted social media apps, making it difficult to identify the ringleaders.
Phishing emails posing as major securities firms spiked in Japan between March and May, topping 70,000 in May alone.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 19, 2025
Police look to crack down harder on phishing scams amid record surge
Online banking fraud surged to about ¥4.22 billion in the first half of this year, a roughly 73% jump from last year.
ChatGPT owner OpenAI says it "actively works to identify and disrupt scam-related misuse of ChatGPT.”
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Sep 19, 2025
ChatGPT was used ‘to help scammers do their thing’ at Asia fraud compound
Scammers used the artificial intelligence tool to craft convincing messages designed to trick people into parting with their money.
A novel type of fraud has been reported in Osaka Prefecture in which scammers send smartphones to elderly individuals before swindling them via the devices.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 12, 2025
Novel smartphone scam targeting elderly emerges in Osaka
Scammers would send elderly people smartphones before swindling them using the devices, according to the Osaka Prefectural Police.
Toyota Motor has implemented a five-stage internal qualification system at vehicle certification test sites to ensure quality and develop related human resources.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 10, 2025
Toyota introduces qualification system to prevent test fraud
The move aims to prevent any recurrence of irregularities in tests to obtain type approval needed for mass production.
Akira Ishii, a former Nippon Ishin no Kai Upper House lawmaker, is under investigation for alleged fraud involving secretarial pay.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 9, 2025
Prosecutors question former Nippon Ishin lawmaker over alleged fraud
Akira Ishii is suspected of having fraudulently reported a relative as being his public secretary and cheating the government of ¥8 million.
Police have urged the public to be suspicious if an acquaintance on social media ends up asking for cash.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 3, 2025
Over the moon: Fake astronaut scams lovestruck Japanese octogenarian
The woman in Hokkaido met the fraudster in July on social media, a local police officer said, describing the case as a "romance scam."
Losses in Japan due to special fraud cases reached ¥72.21 billion during the period from January to July, surpassing the worst-ever annual total of ¥71.88 billion in 2024, according to the National Police Agency.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 2, 2025
Losses due to special fraud cases from January to July exceed 2024 record
Two-thirds of the cases involved "fake police," with offenders posing as police officers to swindle targets out of money, National Police Agency data shows.
A meeting of Nippon Ishin no Kai lawmakers earlier this month.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 29, 2025
Scandal-hit Nippon Ishin lawmaker to quit
Tokyo prosecutors have launched an investigation into Ishii on suspicion he fraudulently received funds for wages for a secretary who did not actually work for him.
The special investigation squad of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutor's Office searches the office of Upper House lawmaker Akira Ishii in the city of Toride, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Thursday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 29, 2025
Nippon Ishin lawmaker's alleged fraud likely totals ¥8 million
Akira Ishii is suspected of receiving salaries for a state-paid public secretary who actually did not work for him.
Upper House lawmaker Akira Ishii
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 27, 2025
Upper House member's office raided over alleged fraud
Akira Ishii is suspected of receiving public funds by filing a report about hiring a government-paid secretary who never actually worked for him.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks with the media at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, in May.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 22, 2025
In huge win for Trump, court throws out half-billion-dollar fraud penalty
The deeply divided decision by the Appellate Division in Manhattan is also a defeat for New York Attorney General Letitia James, one of Trump's biggest foes.
Investigators escort suspects extradited from Cambodia after arresting them on suspicion of attempted fraud, on Wednesday at Chubu Centrair International Airport in the city of Tokoname, Aichi Prefecture.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 21, 2025
Aichi police arrest 29 Japanese extradited from Cambodia over phone scams
The suspects allegedly posed as police officers when calling victims in the Kanto region to swindle them of cash.
Criminals started hijacking online brokerage accounts in Japan and using them to drive up penny stocks around the world earlier this year.
BUSINESS
Aug 15, 2025
Japan brokers seek to identify hackers after fraud surges
Criminals started hijacking online brokerage accounts in Japan and using them to drive up penny stocks around the world earlier this year.
Police officers escort Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon after he served a sentence for document forgery, in Podgorica, Montenegro, on March 23, 2024. Kwon was extradited to the U.S. last year and pleaded guilty to charges on Tuesday.
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 13, 2025
Do Kwon pleads guilty to U.S. fraud charges in $40 billion crypto collapse
The South Korean entrepreneur faces over a decade in prison for misleading investors.
Reflecting a sharp rise in fraud cases involving offenders posing as police officers, the number of special fraud cases between January and June increased 50% from a year before, with the amount of damage shooting up by 2.6 times.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 1, 2025
'Fake police' fraud cases surging in Japan
The amount of money swindled in such cases totaled ¥38.93 billion between January and June.
A secret no more: Russia and North Korea's battle against Ukraine is celebrated in Moscow exhibit
A woman visits an exhibition of North Korean art at a museum in Moscow on Monday.
Prices to rise for 3,024 food products in Japan in October
A wide range of products will see higher prices due to rising material and labor costs.
Koizumi and Takaichi continue to lead in LDP presidential race, polls show
Agriculture Minister Shinjiro Koizumi (right) reacts as former economic security minister Sanae Takaichi speaks during the Liberal Democratic Party Presidential Election Candidate Debate at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo, on Sept. 24. Koizumi and Takaichi remain head-to-head in the race, media polls show.
The party that ruled Japan for decades is in danger of crumbling
Haruo Tsukamoto, a rank-and-file member of the Liberal Democratic Party and a rice farmer in Ibaraki Prefecture, questions if the party still stands for people like him.
8,432 foreign children in Japan seen not attending school
The total number of foreign children registered in Japan as residents eligible for education at elementary or junior high schools stood at 163,358, up by 12,663.
Tea ceremony experts see matcha boom as a big opportunity
Atsuko Mori, founder and director of Kyoto-based tea salon Camellia Tea Ceremony, prepares matcha during a tea ceremony in Kyoto.
Japan's far-right party courts Trump allies and vows not to get 'wacky'
Sanseito party leader Sohei Kamiya speaks during an interview in Tokyo on Sept. 25.
How Ohtani has boosted Japan's soft power and made LA even more baseball-obsessed
Fans at Dodger Stadium pose in front of a mural highlighting the Dodgers' Japanese stars from past and present during a game earlier this year.
Japan faces fresh energy challenge as it seeks to expand power-hungry data centers
Data storage tapes at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center facility in Berkeley, California. Data centers consume massive amounts of electricity and water, and that will only rise as generative artificial intelligence takes off in earnest.
Architecture art exhibition highlights unsung industry artists
Yuanhui Li's illustration is one of the awardees in the student category of the American Society of Architectural Illustrators' annual award for artists.

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