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ORGANIZED CRIME

JAPAN
Nov 1, 2016
Yamaguchi-gumi henchmen make Kobe kids an offer they can't refuse: Halloween candy
The Yamaguchi-gumi underworld group distributed candy and other snacks to children as Halloween gifts near its headquarters in Nada Ward, Kobe, according to the Kobe Shimbun.
JAPAN / Media / DARK SIDE OF THE RISING SUN
Sep 3, 2016
One year on, gang splinter is tough to explain
More than a year has passed since the country's largest crime syndicate, the Yamaguchi-gumi, split into two. More than a dozen gangs defected from the Yamaguchi-gumi on Aug. 27, 2015, to form the Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi, headed by Kunio Inoue, as a rival syndicate and, even now, the reasons for the breakup...
EDITORIALS
Jul 23, 2016
The need to protect lay judges
The foundation of the lay judge system could be at risk unless these citizen judges are protected from intimidation.
JAPAN / Media / DARK SIDE OF THE RISING SUN
Jun 4, 2016
Legal reform may start rooting out gangsters
Lawmakers in the Diet approved reform to the country's criminal justice system last month, mandating the recording of police interrogations in certain circumstances, revamping the existing wiretap law and introducing a plea bargain system for the first time.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 12, 2016
Stamp out the insidious tentacles of corruption
World leaders are increasingly recognizing that corruption is a menace to development, human dignity, and global security. It's time they acted.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
May 7, 2016
New Yorker wearing cement shoes was killed by asphyxiation: official
A man whose face was wrapped in duct tape and feet encased in concrete when his body washed ashore in New York City this week was killed by asphyxia, the New York City Medical Examiner's Office said Friday.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Apr 28, 2016
U.S. seeks three more years in prison for mobster Bulger's girlfriend
U.S. Federal prosecutors on Thursday are set to ask a judge to order former Boston mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger's girlfriend to spend three more years in prison for refusing to say if anyone helped the couple during their 16 years on the run.
JAPAN / Media / DARK SIDE OF THE RISING SUN
Apr 2, 2016
The drug problem that keeps getting older
Former pro baseball player Kazuhiro Kiyohara was released from police custody on ¥5 million bail last month following his arrest and subsequent indictment for alleged possession and use of stimulant drugs.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Mar 3, 2016
Italian Mafia earnings from drugs rival Fiat's from cars: report
Italian mobsters make as much money trafficking narcotics in Italy as Fiat does selling cars, but without having to pay taxes, the anti-Mafia prosecutors office said Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Feb 25, 2016
With new law, U.S. challenges slavery by banning forced labor imports
President Barack Obama signed a bill on Wednesday barring the import of goods produced by forced labor from entering the United States, throwing the weight of the U.S. market into the fight against global slavery.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jan 17, 2016
Italy decriminalizes obscene acts, other minor crimes to unburden justice system
Italy decriminalized a long list of minor crimes on Friday, from obscene acts to blunders by cannabis researchers, to ease pressure on an overburdened justice system that ranks among the least efficient in the world.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jan 15, 2016
'Grandpa gang' guilty of London's biggest burglary
Three men were found guilty on Thursday in the largest burglary in English legal history, a daring multimillion pound raid on a safe-deposit business in London's jewelry district led by pensioners who had spent a life in crime.
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Dec 19, 2015
Gangs, girl power and getting old: Japan's magazines ring out 2015
A roundup of the final weekly magazines of 2015 finds many preoccupied with the split within the Yamaguchi-gumi yakuza group.
COMMUNITY / Issues / LAW OF THE LAND
Dec 6, 2015
Beware Japan's old problems posing in new packaging
When government announcements describe 'new' problems and propose solutions, they should be taken with a side-order of salt.
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.
Japan must correct Trump’s false data for trade talks, says Kono
Former Foreign Minister Taro Kono
Japan wants to 'separate' tariff and security issues. That may be tough.
Japan’s chief tariff negotiator, Ryosei Akazawa, poses with a "Make America Great Again" cap at the White House in Washington on April 16.
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.
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.
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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