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U S CRIME

WORLD / Science & Health
Feb 25, 2015
Depressed people are three times more likely to commit violent crime
People diagnosed with major depression are three times more likely than the general population to commit violent crimes such as robbery, sexual offenses and assault, psychiatric experts said on Wednesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Feb 7, 2015
In violent times, young Japanese just shrug
The weekly Shukan Kinyobi discerns a "new fatalism" among young people. Meaning what? A feeling that effort reaps no rewards and so is not worth making; that the world is what it is and cannot be changed — at least not by me, even if I felt like changing it, which I don't; that luck or inborn talent...
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 3, 2015
Litvinenko believed Putin linked to organized crime, ex-KGB spy's widow says
Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian agent killed with polonium in London, believed Vladimir Putin lacked the mettle to stamp out corruption inside Russia's security agency and that he had links to organized crime, his widow said on Monday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Feb 2, 2015
Death sentence upheld for Akihabara rampage killer
The Supreme Court finalizes the death penalty of Tomohiro Kato for the vehicular homicide and stabbing spree that left seven people dead and 10 injured on the streets of Tokyo's Akihabara neighborhood in 2008.
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Jan 31, 2015
The changing motives behind juvenile crime in Japan
In a thought-provoking article in the February issue of Bungei Shunju, veteran journalist Kunio Yanagida ponders changes in the patterns of crimes committed by juveniles that have taken place since the end of World War II.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jan 28, 2015
Chinese police suspended for eating endangered salamander
The southern Chinese city of Shenzhen suspended 14 police officers and put a police chief under investigation on Tuesday on suspicion of feasting on an endangered giant salamander, state media reported.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jan 7, 2015
Fukuoka police hand out anti-yakuza manga to school children
Police in Fukuoka Prefecture are distributing a manga booklet that aims to steer schoolchildren away from becoming a yakuza member.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 16, 2014
At least 84 children killed in Taliban school attack in Pakistan
At least 84 children were killed in Pakistan on Tuesday when Taliban gunmen stormed a military-run school in the city of Peshawar, taking hundreds of students and teachers hostage in the bloodiest insurgent attack in the country in years.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 16, 2014
'Lone wolf' Australian hostage-taker had violent, unsettled past
The self-styled sheik behind a siege at a Sydney cafe had been charged as an accessory to murder and with multiple sexual offenses. He also harbored deep grievances against the Australian government and had found little kinship in the city's large Muslim community, where he was seen as deeply troubled....

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Sumadori Bar on Shibuya Ward's main Center Gai street targets young customers who prefer low-alcohol drinks or abstain altogether.
Rethinking that second drink: Japan’s Gen Z gets ‘sober curious’