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POLICE

WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 19, 2014
Two California youths accused of plotting high school shooting spree
Police in the Los Angeles suburb of South Pasadena said Monday they had thwarted a mass shooting plot with the arrest of two teenagers who were conspiring to kill several staffers and as many fellow students as possible at their high school.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 18, 2014
Autopsy finds unarmed teen killed by police was shot six times
A preliminary private autopsy report found that Michael Brown, the black teen killed by a police officer in the suburban St. Louis city of Ferguson, was shot at least six times, The New York Times reported Sunday night.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Aug 18, 2014
Ferguson police fail to learn from past incidents of racial unrest
Ignoring lessons of past civil disturbances such as the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles, police inflamed tensions that have fueled more than a week of unrest in a St. Louis suburb where an officer shot to death an unarmed black teenager.
WORLD
Aug 17, 2014
Police called to investigate chicken crossing road
Ask police in Portland, Oregon, why the chicken crossed the road, and they have no idea.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 16, 2014
Missouri protests reignite over shot black teen
Protesters clashed with riot police in the U.S. state of Missouri overnight after police reports released earlier on Friday said a black teen was a suspect in the theft of cigars from a store minutes before an officer shot him dead.
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 15, 2014
Chinese police open fire on Tibetan protesters, rights group says
Chinese police have opened fire on Tibetan demonstrators in southwestern China, wounding 10 people, after the Tibetans protested against the detention of a respected village leader, a Tibetan rights group said.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 14, 2014
Nightly protests follow shooting of unarmed black teen in Missouri
Police in Ferguson, Missouri, fired tear gas, stun grenades and smoke bombs to disperse some 350 protesters late Wednesday, the fourth night of racially charged demonstrations after police shot to death an unarmed black teen.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Aug 12, 2014
Barber cuts hair of suspects at police station for 50 years
A 74-year-old barber in Niigata Prefecture has been cutting the hair of suspects detained at a police station in the city of Murakami for the past half century.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Aug 12, 2014
Power struggle on Baghdad streets as Iraq nominates new leader
Iraq's president named a new prime minister to end Nouri al-Maliki's eight-year rule on Monday, but the veteran leader refused to go after deploying militias and special forces on the streets, creating a dangerous political showdown in Baghdad.
EDITORIALS
Aug 11, 2014
Next, conversation monitoring
The National Police Agency's white paper for 2014 stresses the need for police to consider conversation monitoring — as distinguished from 'ordinary' communications interception — as a new means of investigation.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 11, 2014
Ibaraki man brings body to police station, admits killing girlfriend
An Ibaraki Prefecture man drove to a police station Sunday with a woman's corpse wrapped up in the back seat of his car, and he confessed to killing his girlfriend.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 8, 2014
British police raid pub in search for 'Holy Grail'
British police raided an English country pub this week in search of a stolen wooden relic believed by some to be the Holy Grail — a cup from which, according to the Bible, Jesus is said to have drunk at his final meal before crucifixion.
WORLD
Aug 7, 2014
Reward offered for man shown kicking squirrel into Grand Canyon
An animal rights group offered a reward of nearly $17,000 on Wednesday for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a man who apparently kicked a squirrel into Arizona's Grand Canyon in a video that went viral on the Internet.
JAPAN
Aug 7, 2014
Road deaths under 2,000 in first half of '14: police report
The number of people killed in traffic accidents in the first six months of 2014 came to 1,925, down 79 from the same period a year earlier, with the number sinking below 2,000 for the first time since the first half of 2012, the National Police Agency revealed in a report on Thursday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 7, 2014
Police-appointed Internet watchdog sets out to purge 3-D gun designs
The National Police Agency said Thursday that an Internet watchdog acting on its behalf has been looking out for online blueprints for 3-D printed guns and requesting that Internet service providers remove them whenever they are found.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
Aug 5, 2014
41 deaths caused by 'dangerous drugs' in Japan since 2012
At least 41 people are suspected to have died from using "dangerous drugs" since 2012, a National Police Agency official said.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 5, 2014
Top U.S. neuroscientist arrested after taking loaded assault rifle to Arizona airport 'to get a cup of coffee'
An Arizona medical researcher arrested after taking a loaded assault rifle into Phoenix airport said Monday he was making a political statement and did not intend to harm anyone.
WORLD
Aug 5, 2014
Video shows 'unspeakable acts' carried out by Nigerian soldiers: Amnesty
Footage obtained by human rights group Amnesty International and released on Tuesday appears to show Nigerian soldiers slitting the throats of Boko Haram suspects and dumping their bodies in a mass grave.
EDITORIALS
Aug 1, 2014
Tiny progress in interrogations
The National Police Agency says its investigators electronically recorded the entire interrogation process in nearly 1 percent of the cases set for lay judge trials in fiscal 2013. For critics of past investigative abuses that led to the filing of false charges, this is some progress.
WORLD
Aug 1, 2014
Speeding grandma thanks Idaho trooper for ticket
A Washington state grandmother has written a thank-you letter to a state trooper in Idaho for giving her a speeding ticket in an exchange that she said on Thursday was a highlight of her recent holiday there.
America wasn’t made for walking, and it’s killing them
A 2010 study found that U.S. adults averaged 5,117 steps daily and that this was lower than the averages found in similar studies in Switzerland, western Australia and Japan.
Rare sequel to 'My Neighbor Totoro' to play at Cannes
A screening of "Mei and the Baby Cat Bus," which is being billed as a "mini-sequel" to the Studio Ghibli classic "My Neighbor Totoro," is set to take place at the Cannes Film Festival on Monday.
Japanese stripper bids to have her porn movies taken off internet
Plaintiff Miyuki Ariga (left) speaks at a news conference along with her lawyer, Yoshitomo Morohashi, after filing a lawsuit at the Tokyo District Court on Monday.
Saudi crown prince seeks soft power in game hub Japan
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman welcomes Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, last July.
Japan survey finds 30% of student interns experience sexual harassment
The proportion of recent graduates in Japan who have worked as interns have experienced sexual harassment during their internship was 30.1%, according to a labor ministry survey, up 4.6 percentage points from the previous survey in fiscal 2020.
New Taiwan president to set tone for ties with China at inauguration
Taiwan President-elect Lai Ching-te arrives at the CyberSec 2024 Exhibition in Taipei on Wednesday.
Local theater in Japan is more than a hobby — it’s a community
Japan Times contributor Laura Pollacco (front right) was offered the role of one of her all-time favorite heroines, Elizabeth “Lizzie” Bennet, in the Tokyo International Players’ production of “Pride and Prejudice.”
Can AI-generated inventions be patented? A Tokyo court says no.
The Tokyo court's ruling comes amid ongoing debates on how to regulate generative AI and is part of a transnational class action lawsuit.
Massimo Bottura: 'The Japanese let ingredients express themselves'
Italian chef and restaurateur Massimo Bottura is increasingly focusing on passing on his knowledge to chefs such as Antonio Iacoviello.
Unraveling the Japanese prose of Yukio Mishima
Author Yukio Mishima accepts the Arts Festival Award in the drama category at the 20th Arts Festival Award Ceremony on Jan. 22, 1966.

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