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TEENAGER

Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Feb 19, 2018
Four arrested over suspected Chiba arson-murder
Two men, a woman and a teenager were arrested Monday on suspicion of setting fire to a house in Chiba Prefecture and killing its sole resident.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Sep 2, 2017
The naivete of youth can be a costly problem
From Aug. 15, the Yukan Fuji ran a three-part series by investigative reporter Fumiaki Tada about the "dangerous summer" that confronts Japan's young people, including the possibility of falling victim to fraud or robbery.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 1, 2017
Teen arrested in Shizuoka after allegedly stabbing girlfriend in Tokyo
A male teenager was arrested Thursday for allegedly stabbing and seriously wounding his girlfriend the previous day.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 31, 2017
High school student among trio nabbed in hit-and-run Ginza robbery
A 16-year-old high school student and two men were arrested Monday for allegedly robbing a man of a bag containing about ¥72 million ($650,900) in cash in Tokyo's posh Ginza shopping district in April, police said.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / NEWS IN NIHONGO
Jun 12, 2017
Teen arrested for allegedly dropping girl, 5, from second floor
The Mihara police station of Hiroshima Prefectural Police arrested a third-year junior high school student from Mihara aged 14 on an attempted murder charge on June 6 after the boy allegedly dropped a 5-year-old girl from the second floor of a sports center in Mihara.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 25, 2016
Teen held in death of 16-year-old buried in Saitama riverbed
A 16-year-old in Saitama admits to killing another teenager who was found partially buried in the Toki River after drowning.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 25, 2015
Teen held over Chan death threat tweet 'couldn't stomach pop star's hypocrisy'
A Tokyo teenager nabbed for posting an online death threat to Agnes Chan said he couldn't stomach what he described as the hypocrisy of the former pop star, known for her wealthy lifestyle and benevolent activities, according to police.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jun 26, 2015
Teen admits bludgeoning father to death in Sapporo
A teenager was arrested Thursday for allegedly killing his 51-year-old father at his home in Sapporo, after turning himself in and admitting to the slaying, police said.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 17, 2015
Tachikawa teen 'inspired by Islamic State' held for trying to kill goat
A teenager in the Tokyo suburb of Tachikawa, apparently inspired by online video footage of recent gruesome killings of Japanese nationals by the Islamic State extremists, was arrested in February after attempting to kill a goat as "practice" for his plan to kill someone, police said.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 11, 2014
Teen held for allegedly posting cracking app for Microsoft Office on blog
A high school student in Fukui was arrested Thursday on suspicion of uploading a computer program to the Internet that deactivates the expiration date in the free-trial edition of Microsoft Office 2013, police said.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Apr 12, 2014
Teen grilled over ¥400 million scam
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested a high-school student from the western Tokyo suburb of Chofu for allegedly perpetrating an "it's me" telephone scam that fleeced his victims out of roughly ¥400 million.
JAPAN
Jul 14, 2013
Hiroshima teen admits slaying friend
A teenager is arrested in Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture, after confessing to killing her friend and abandoning her body on a nearby mountain.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jun 29, 2013
16-year-old Chiba Prefecture boy stabs classmate, carjacks taxi at knifepoint
A 16-year-old boy stabbed a male classmate in their school in Narashino, Chiba Prefecture, and commandeered a taxi at knifepoint before he was arrested several hours later, police said.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Feb 4, 2013
Teach your teens basic life skills
Everyone graduates from high school knowing how to read, write and do basic math (you would hope). But to be a self-sufficient adult, those skills are not enough. In fact, they're nowhere close to enough.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Over 40% of Japan's municipalities at risk of vanishing, study finds
Of 1,729 local municipalities nationwide, 744 have been identified as being at risk of disappearing.
Princess Aiko makes debut at imperial garden party
Princess Aiko attends an imperial garden party in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Yen inches closer to intervention point as BOJ meeting starts
The rate of the yen against the U.S. dollar is displayed in the trading room at foreign exchange brokerage Gaitame.com in Tokyo on Thursday.
'Sugar Baby Riri' gets nine-year prison term over romance scam
Mai Watanabe, who went by the moniker “Sugar Baby Riri,” dated older men and swindled them out of money by telling them fictitious heartbreaking stories about herself to gain their sympathy.
For amateur sumo, a fresh start offers hope against time-wasting and gamesmanship
Wrestlers prepare for the start of a bout at the 2023 Sumo World Championships in Tokyo. Starting this month, placing one hand on the clay first is no longer allowed.
LDP veteran Nikai's youngest son expected to succeed him in Wakayama
Toshihiro Nikai, former secretary-general of the Liberal Democratic Party, announced in March that he would not run in the next Lower House election to take responsibility for the political funds scandal that rocked his party and his own faction.
New workers name Shohei Ohtani as 'dream boss' for two years running
Shohei Ohtani has been overwhelmingly voted as the “dream boss” for people who started working in April, according to a survey.
A craft beer crawl through Tokyo’s top bars, brewpubs and dives
If all you drink is Asahi, Sapporo and Kirin, you're depriving yourself of some of the best craft beer Tokyo has to offer — and there sure is a lot of it out there.
'Sugar Baby Riri' gets nine-year prison term over romance scam
Mai Watanabe, who went by the moniker “Sugar Baby Riri,” dated older men and swindled them out of money by telling them fictitious heartbreaking stories about herself to gain their sympathy.

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