Japan saw crime drop 7.7 percent in the first half and the tally for the year is likely to drop to another postwar low, a National Police Agency report showed Thursday. There were 450,887 criminal offenses reported from January to June, the NPA said. The annual ...
Utopias and dystopias have this in common: surveillance. From Thomas More's "Utopia" (1516) to George Orwell's "1984" (1949), from Plato's "Republic" (c. 380 B.C.) to Yevgeny Zamyatin's "We" (1921), the view prevails that people behave better under scrutiny. Why conceal good deeds? For no ...
The National Police Agency plans to lower the maximum winnings from pachinko, according to informed sources. The plan is part of the government's efforts to combat gambling addiction, after legislation was enacted last December to legalize casinos. Under the initiative, the maximum pachinko profit for an ...
A National Police Agency panel drafts proposals to curtail the rise in accidents caused by elderly drivers, including limitations on vehicle types and driving times.
A total of 2,929 people got lost in Japan's mountains in 2016, the second-highest level on record, the National Police Agency said. Of all the cases logged, 319 people died or remain missing, down 16 from the previous year, and 1,133 were injured, down by ...
The National Police Agency on Thursday officially adopted approval standards for tests of driverless vehicles on public roads. The standards require safety measures such as a system that stops vehicles automatically in case of emergency. The NPA released a draft of the standards in April and ...
Last month, three masked robbers grabbed a suitcase stuffed with cash from a businessman who had just withdrawn the money from a bank in Fukuoka. The businessman is believed to have been planning to use the ¥380 million ($3.5 million) to buy gold. In December, ...
The National Police Agency reveals a set of rules for companies to follow when testing driverless vehicles in public.
Japan will introduce bilingual traffic signs in July as visitors surge ahead of Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics in 2020. The National Police Agency on Thursday unveiled stop and slow-down signs, each with English translations beneath the Japanese words. The new versions will gradually replace the ...
More than a third of the murders, attempted murders and fatal assaults involving members of the same family in 2014 were motivated by “fear of the future.”
The daily average number of cyberattacks or suspected threats swelled to a record 1,692 in 2016, more than double the previous year's rate, the National Police Agency said Thursday. In 2015, the daily average of attacks or threats detected by censors installed at internet access ...
Children aged 7 are at the highest risk of traffic accidents among all pedestrians and account for most of the fatal or injurious accidents logged over the past five years, a National Police Agency report said Thursday. The analysis also found that fewer children meet ...
