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Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Department headquarters
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 6, 2025
Member of boy band Ae! Group arrested on public indecency charge
Keita Richard Kusama is suspected of exposing his lower body around the entrance of a building in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward.
A bear warning sign. More and more wild bears have been spotted in Japan in recent years, even in residential areas, due to factors including a declining human population and climate change.
JAPAN
Oct 4, 2025
One dead, one missing in Japan after bear attack
More and more wild bears have been spotted in recent years due to factors including a declining human population and climate change.
With six people having been in a car that rolled over in Nabari, Mie Prefecture, the minivehicle may have exceeded its seating capacity of five when it crashed, according to the police.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 3, 2025
Minivehicle rolls over in Mie Prefecture, killing five aboard
With six people having been in the car, the minivehicle may have exceeded its seating capacity of five when it crashed, according to the police.
Tokyo police officers investigate on Tuesday the site in Machida, Tokyo, where a 76-year-old woman was fatally stabbed.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 3, 2025
Parents want son to atone for alleged killing of Tokyo woman
Kota Kuwano is suspected of stabbing a 76-year-old woman at her apartment in Machida, Tokyo, on Tuesday.
A special inspection is expected to cover the Saga Prefecture police department's criminal division, particularly the crime lab, and the administration division including the education and training unit.
JAPAN
Oct 2, 2025
Saga police to face special probe over faulty DNA analyses
The former employee in question was referred to prosecutors last month for allegedly fabricating DNA analyses and falsifying analysis dates in 130 cases over roughly seven years.
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.
An exterior staircase at the apartment building where Chizuko Akie was fatally stabbed, in the city of Machida, Tokyo, on Wednesday
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 2, 2025
Suspect in Machida stabbing was ‘overwhelmed with despair’ over daily inconveniences
Kota Kuwano, 40, told investigators that frustrations over matters such as his mail not arriving and garbage being left outside his home drove him to kill someone.
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.
Tokyo police officers conduct investigations in Machida, Tokyo, where an elderly woman was fatally stabbed, on Tuesday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 1, 2025
Elderly woman stabbed to death in Tokyo's Machida
The suspect, whose occupation is unknown, told police, "I'm tired of my current life. I thought I'd kill anyone."
Takeshi Niinami speaks at a news conference in early September after police investigated him over the shipment of supplements to his home.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 30, 2025
Niinami resigning as head of Keizai Doyukai
The business lobby's senior vice chairperson, Mutsuo Iwai, will become acting chairperson until a new leader is chosen.
Parents of Shiori Ino, who was murdered by a stalker in 1999, talk about their feelings over a similar recent case, during an interview at their home in Ageo, Saitama Prefecture, on Sept. 12.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 30, 2025
Father of 1999 stalking murder victim saddened by recent fatal case
The father continues to lecture on stalking and its harmful effects at prefectural police departments and police academies throughout the nation.
A new draft proposal is aimed at clarifying the charge of dangerous driving resulting in death or injury.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 30, 2025
Justice Ministry proposes criteria for dangerous driving offenses
The proposal is aimed at clarifying the charge of dangerous driving resulting in death or injury.
A Boston police officer watches as protesters kneel in the street during a rally against the death in Minneapolis police custody of George Floyd, in Boston in June 2020.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 27, 2025
FBI fires agents pictured kneeling during racial justice protest in 2020
Sources said the agents in question were trying to ease tensions between protesters and law enforcement.
An empty street is seen in the abandoned town of Okuma, in Fukushima Prefecture, during a temporary return visit by evacuees in February 2012.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 27, 2025
Ukrainian YouTuber arrested in Japan over Fukushima livestream
The arrest is the latest in a string of incidents involving fame-seeking foreign nationals behaving badly in the country.
Investigators believe the man had been repeatedly coerced into drinking by the four suspects, as well as giving them money, leaving him too afraid to resist.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 26, 2025
Four people arrested for getting disabled man drunk and stealing his phone
Some of the suspects told investigators that they committed the act because “it was funny to see him so drunk.”
Police have arrested a 75-year-old woman after she allegedly confessed to keeping her adult daughter's body in a freezer for 20 years.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 26, 2025
Woman in Japan arrested for keeping daughter's body in freezer for 20 years
Keiko Mori, 75, told police the body was that of her daughter who was born in 1975. An autopsy has been ordered to determine the cause of death.
Actor Kenshin Endo has denied allegations of possessing dried cannabis.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 25, 2025
Actor Kenshin Endo arrested on suspicion of marijuana possession
Tokyo police allege Endo had 0.4 grams of dried cannabis in his possession earlier this month at the home of fellow actor Hiroya Shimizu, who has been indicted.
In results based on a survey by the National Police Agency (NPA) earlier this year, approximately 3.37 million people in Japan — of whom nearly 60% were in their 20s and 30s — are estimated to have gambled via online casinos.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 24, 2025
Japan's revised gambling addiction law takes aim at source of scourge
The revised law, which takes effect on Thursday, bans the launch of new online casinos and the posting of online ads for such sites, including on social media.
Police investigate an area around the scene where a woman was killed in a knife attack in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward on Sept. 1.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 23, 2025
Tokyo police rearrest South Korean man suspected of murdering ex-girlfriend on stalking charges
Police allege that the suspect, Park Yong-jun, repeatedly stalked the victim, Bang Ji-won, and trespassed into her home in the days leading to her killing.
A street in Naha in August. In entertainment districts in southern Okinawa, a drug known as "laughing gas vape" is being abused at nightclubs and bar. Now, some establishments have put up warning notices.
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Okinawa
Sep 22, 2025
Abuse of 'zombie cigarettes' among Okinawa youths raises alarm
"Laughing gas vape," inhaled using devices resembling e-cigarettes, can cause its users to lose control.
Takaichi poised to become Japan's first female PM after winning LDP poll
Sanae Takaichi, the newly elected leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, holds a news conference after the LDP presidential election in Tokyo on Saturday.
A Japanese ski resort town is roiled by a debate over immigration
A Swedish snowboard instructor works at the Niseko ski resort area on Hokkaido, in Kutchan, in December 2022
Retro-wrapped trains mark 100th anniversary of Tokyo's Yamanote Line
Trains decorated to resemble the 103 (left) and 205 series of trains that formerly ran on the Yamanote Line, in Tokyo on Saturday.
How Takaichi won the LDP’s leadership race
Sanae Takaichi, the newly elected leader of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, poses in the party leader's office after the LDP leadership election in Tokyo on Saturday.
North Korea says 'special assets' deployed against South
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaks during the Defense Development 2025 military exhibition event ahead of the 80th founding anniversary of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea, in Pyongyang in this picture released Sunday.
Takaichi, the LDP’s first female president, is far from an ‘overnight success’
Newly-elected Liberal Democratic Party chief Sanae Takaichi greets her fellow LDP members on Saturday at party headquarters.
How a family-run landscaper turned the Osaka Expo green
The team at Ryokukou Garden consists primarily of a single family, including Toshiki Tanisaki (second from right), who led the company's efforts at the Osaka Expo, Chikako Tanisaki (fifth from right), who performs daily maintanence at the expo, and Takeshi Tanisaki (fourth from right), who added a nursery to the family farm more than 50 years ago.
Eat your balloons: The culinary theater of Grant Achatz comes to Tokyo
Avant-garde chef Grant Achatz and his team from Alinea are in Tokyo for a three-week residency.
Japan’s first foreign wine investor plants its roots in Hokkaido
Intrigued by Japanese wines, Burgundy winemaker Etienne de Montille decided to explore Hokkaido's wine scene, eventually setting up his outpost in Hakodate in 2017.
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.

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