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New members of the Metropolitan Police Department's (MPD) riot squad hold a drill in Tokyo on Thursday. The MPD plans to set up a section to specialize in the investigation of lone wolf terrorists.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 30, 2024
Tokyo police to set up specialist section for lone wolf terrorists
The section will form part of the Metropolitan Police Department's Public Security Bureau via a reorganization in April to strengthen information gathering.
An Apple store in Tokyo's Omotesando district
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 18, 2024
Seven quasi-gang members arrested for obstructing Apple store in Tokyo
They are believed to have been seeking to purchase many iPhone 15 handsets at the store in the Japanese capital's Shibuya Ward for resale.
Michikazu Takao, a 52-year-old unemployed man who has been arrested over the theft of a safe from a beauty salon, wears a cap adorned with three crow feathers.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 10, 2024
Man with crow-feathered cap arrested over theft of safe at beauty salon
Michikazu Takao, 52, told police that he believes crows possess special powers and that he carried the feathers as a protective charm.
Takaaki Saito enters the Metropolitan Police Department's Fukagawa Police Station in Koto Ward, Tokyo, on Tuesday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 4, 2024
Trio trying to pay off supercar debt arrested for alleged fraud
The trio is believed to have created a total of 34 credit cards in the names of nine people using personal information they obtained.
A sketch of Shinichi Mitate, a key suspect in a 2012 murder case, created by police investigators imagining his current appearance
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 30, 2024
Tokyo police release new sketches of 2012 nightclub murder suspect
The police are calling for information on the suspect, saying the 2012 murder should not be forgotten.
Two women, suspected of being members of the Pink Panda gang, have been arrested over allegations relating to the theft of pearl pendants from an international jewelry exhibition at the Tokyo Big Sight convention center in January.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 28, 2024
Possible 'Pink Panda' gang members arrested in Japan
The two women are alleged to have stolen six pearl pendants valued at a total of ¥1,865,000 at a jewelry exhibition in Tokyo.
The Metropolitan Police Department holds a workshop on dealing with cybercrimes in February.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 20, 2024
Tokyo police expand team for initial cybercrime investigations
The team will focus on investigations pertaining to online fraud, distribution of indecent images of children and drug trafficking.
What is known as real money trading in online games is rife with issues, including account hijacking and fraud.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 8, 2024
Man arrested over alleged fraud involving Sega's in-game money
The suspect allegedly collected money by offering to sell the in-game currency at one-twentieth of the listed price on "real money trading" websites.
A 28-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of deceiving a man she met on a dating app into paying her cash for sexually transmitted infection tests.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 1, 2024
Tokyo woman arrested on suspicion of STI test fraud
Police said Misaki Watanabe asked a man to pay for tests before engaging in sexual relations, but ceased all communication after receiving the money.
The Metropolitan Police Department headquarters in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 22, 2024
Tokyo woman arrested over death of 102-year-old mother
Authorities are aiming to charge Yoko Komine with murder, having initially arrested her on suspicion of attempted murder.
Professional soccer player Kaishu Sano has been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting a woman in her 30s at a Tokyo hotel.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 17, 2024
Japan soccer player Sano arrested for alleged sexual assault
The 23-year-old and two acquaintances were arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman in her 30s at a Tokyo hotel.
Tokyo police have arrested four people for allegedly luring their targets into multilevel marketing, using dating apps, last year, despite orders for the suspension of network marketing-related business.
JAPAN
Jul 11, 2024
Four arrested in Japan over multilevel marketing using dating apps
The police believe that the four collected a total of some ¥850 million from about 2,000 people in 42 prefectures, including university students.
Tokyo police display the high-end sports bicycles stolen in Tokyo to be sold in Vietnam.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 11, 2024
Two Vietnamese held on suspicion of stealing high-end bicycles for sale abroad
Besides the latest charges, the two suspects were allegedly involved in about 70 cases of luxury bicycle theft in Tokyo since last October.
Police examine a cash transport vehicle (left) outside a local bank branch in Kodaira, Tokyo, in October 2001.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 9, 2024
Iranian man arrested over 2001 Tokyo cash truck attack
The suspect is accused of firing three shots on Oct. 3, 2001, breaking a security guard's leg and stealing six bags with ¥102.2 million in cash.
Takuya Matsunaga (right), whose wife and daughter were killed by a runaway car in Ikebukuro in April 2019, speaks during a news conference in Tokyo in October. Two men have allegedly defamed Matsunaga.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 5, 2024
Charges loom for pair accused of defaming families of traffic accident victims
The defamatory remarks were made on social media, including toward a man who lost his wife and child in a high-profile car accident in Tokyo’s Ikebukuro district.
Police investigate the site where a newborn baby was found abandoned in a trash bin in Tokyo's Nerima Ward on Wednesday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 4, 2024
Tokyo woman arrested on suspicion of attempting to murder newborn baby
A baby boy was found abandoned in a trash bin in Nerima Ward. The suspect partially denied the charges, stating she did not intend to kill the baby.
MPD Superintendent-General Yoshimi Ogata (back) speaks at a ceremony to mark the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the Tokyo police's Info-Communications Department on Monday.
JAPAN
Jul 2, 2024
Tokyo police communications department marks 70th year
Since its launch in 1954, the department has supported police communications and played key roles in historic incidents.
Former lawmaker Tomohiro Konno has been arrested for allegedly lending his name as a lawyer to other people to do legal work in violation of the attorney law.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jun 13, 2024
Ex-Japan Lower House member Konno arrested over name-lending
Konno allegedly lent his name to have other people do legal work to recover special fraud damage for five victims, with virtually no cases of damage recovery.
Yuichi Nishimura is taken into police custody in Tokyo on Wednesday on suspicion of attempted fraud.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jun 6, 2024
Hokkaido man arrested for defrauding ‘fiancee’ with fake kidnapping scheme
The suspect, Yuichi Nishimura, allegedly enticed the victim with promises of marriage while concealing the fact that he was already married.
A 17-year-old boy was arrested for allegedly stealing IDs and passwords of people attempting to buy his fictitious online game account by guiding them to a fake website.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jun 4, 2024
17-year-old boy arrested for stealing IDs on fake website
The 17-year-old compromised other people's accounts using their IDs and passwords and sent their funds to his own account.
Japan ruling bloc loses majority in Upper House after election drubbing
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, who serves concurrently as president of the Liberal Democratic Party, leaves at the party's headquarters following announcement of Upper House election result projections in Tokyo early Monday.
‘Japanese First’ Sanseito emerges as powerful force after Upper House poll
Sanseito leader Sohei Kamiya in Tokyo on Sunday night
Foreign residents closely follow Japan's election and party pledges
A police officer walks past posters of Liberal Democratic Party candidates, as well as one showing Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, outside the party's headquarters in Tokyo on Sunday. As Japan’s foreign population continues to rise, one of the talking points during Sunday’s election was how the country should deal with the increase of international residents.
Japan’s top brands get tied up in the great sunscreen debate
A coral reef in Okinawa in July 2022. Some jurisdictions around the world have moved to ban certain sunscreens in a bid to protect coral reefs, but some say the impact on reefs is far from clear.
Hitomi Obara, 2012 Olympic champion in wrestling, dies at 44
Hitomi Obara competes at the London Olympics in August 2012.
Japan’s top brands get tied up in the great sunscreen debate
A coral reef in Okinawa in July 2022. Some jurisdictions around the world have moved to ban certain sunscreens in a bid to protect coral reefs, but some say the impact on reefs is far from clear.
Pentagon looks to unleash ‘military drone dominance’
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth hosts a drone demonstration at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, on July 10.
‘Noto Democracy’ and the slow work of civic change
Yukio Iokibe’s “Noto Democracy" centers on Motoyuki Takii, a former junior high school teacher who publishes a handwritten newspaper every month to encourage the residents of Anamizu, Ishikawa Prefecture, to engage in local politics.
In microbes we trust: Embracing the nature of fermented food
You don't need an oven to make Kenji Morimoto's easy and delicious Miso Sticky Toffee Crepe Cake.
Touring the Silk Road — without leaving Tokyo
One of the entrances to Pao Compound, a nine-story Silk Road-inspired complex in Tokyo's Higashinakano neighborhood

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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