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U S CRIME

EDITORIALS
Oct 15, 2013
Get to the bottom of shady loans
The inability of Japan's third-largest bank to break the habit of approving car loans for yakuza reflects poor corporate governance and besmirches the reputation of the financial industry.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 10, 2013
Man rams home with large truck, attacks dwellers
A 40-year-old man was arrested Thursday after driving his truck into a house in Kawaguchi, Saitama Prefecture, and attacking the three residents with a saw, police said.
JAPAN / Media / DARK SIDE OF THE RISING SUN
Oct 5, 2013
Has business blackballed the yakuza? Don't bank on it
The Financial Services Agency (FSA) publicly spanked Mizuho Bank last month by slapping it with a "business improvement order" for letting Japan's organized crime groups use its facilities. At least $2 million in illegal transactions were cited.
JAPAN
Oct 3, 2013
Stronger anti-stalking law comes into force
The revised anti-stalking law, passed in June in response to recent high-profile murder cases involving stalkers, took effect Thursday.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 1, 2013
The 'why' of violence against women
Cultural attitudes regarding rape must change if we are to create a safer future for the next generation of women and girls.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 17, 2013
Court interpreters' working conditions a threat to fairness
The introduction of the lay judge system four years ago has only added to the stress placed on court interpreters, as they grapple with ever-worsening working conditions that have left them fatigued, ill-prepared and more error-prone, the Japan Federation of Bar Associations warns.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Sep 14, 2013
Japanese media declare 'dark times' are on us
Being good has never been easy. And it's not getting easier — unlike many things in this age of mass technological empowerment. If it were, presumably, there would be more good and less evil — unless evil is more attractive?
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 23, 2013
NPO helps parents help child victims of crime by altering mind-set
A nonprofit group assisting people victimized by crime held an unprecedented series of workshops nationwide this summer on what parents should and shouldn't do if their children fall prey to criminals.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Aug 21, 2013
Influential crime novelist Leonard dies at 87
Elmore Leonard, a masterful crime novelist whose razor-sharp dialogue and indelibly realized lowlifes earned him an unusual mix of mass-market appeal and highbrow acclaim, dies at his home in Michigan.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Aug 10, 2013
'Haiku killings' recall infamous horror story
Mitake, a tiny mountain hamlet located in eastern Yamaguchi Prefecture, is administrated as part of the city of Shunan (pop. 150,000). The area is so remote, cell phones don't always receive signals there.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 30, 2013
Heist of 400 koi opens window on lucrative carp cult
The great koi heist began with the thieves handing out a business card.
EDITORIALS
Jun 8, 2013
Tax rule lags the technology
The National Tax Agency has said for years that people who bet on the horses cannot deduct losses from taxable winnings. Enough of that, an Osaka court rules.
EDITORIALS
Apr 21, 2013
Organized crime in East Asia
Working together with East Asian countries to battle organized crime is a better use of Japanese political efforts than trying to revise the Constitution.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Mar 10, 2013
Crime is down but elderly prisoners on the rise
Last July, a lay judge panel in Osaka handed down a 20-year prison sentence to a man convicted of killing his sister after the prosecution had only asked for 16 years. Earlier this month the Osaka High Court reduced that sentence to 14 years, because the defendant had been diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, a developmental disorder. In the original ruling, the judges cited Asperger's as one of the reasons for giving the man the maximum sentence, saying that there was little hope of such a person being rehabilitated. The high court, on the other hand, concluded that the defendant did not fully understand the gravity of his crime because of the disorder, and thus it was unfair to increase his sentence simply because he "could not show sufficient remorse."
JAPAN / Media / DARK SIDE OF THE RISING SUN
Mar 3, 2013
Say goodbye to the Buddha of the yakuza
Takahiko Inoue, yakuza boss and Buddhist priest, died Feb. 10 at age 65. The police determined that he fell from the seventh story of the building where his office was located. When the ambulance arrived, Inoue told the crew: "I'm fine. Just take me to the hospital. I'll walk to the car myself." Those were his last words. There was no protracted investigation.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Feb 27, 2013
Interviews with 'evil personified' reveal very different men
He shuffled into the room and stopped, plexiglass and cinderblocks framing his slight figure. He looked much as I remembered him from nearly a decade earlier: big eyes in a boyish face, a thin build, long fingers, waist chains. But his eyes, once cold and flat, had mellowed into something resembling thoughtfulness.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Feb 11, 2013
Suspect held in mysterious cyberthreats
Tokyo police arrest a man suspected of making anonymous online threats last year by remotely manipulating other people's computers.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jan 25, 2013
With Inagawa-kai, top three yakuza groups now on U.S. sanctions list
The United States on Wednesday put the Inagawa-kai, Japan's third-largest yakuza group, and its two top bosses on a list of groups and individuals subject to financial sanctions for involvement in drug trafficking, money laundering, fraud and other crimes.
JAPAN
Dec 1, 2012
Mobsters held in Osaka for playing golf after hiding yakuza status
Osaka police arrested a senior member of the major underworld syndicate Yamaguchi-gumi as well as a mob-connected former world champion boxer on suspicion of fraud for allegedly playing golf by concealing their gangland status in violation of ordinances.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Mar 23, 2012
Auto thefts in Japan record first rise in a decade
Grand theft auto, the real kind, makes a slight comeback in Japan.
Biden calls ally Japan ‘xenophobic’ along with rivals China and Russia
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks in Syracuse, New York, on April 25.
Yen swings stir talk that Japan is in the FX market once again
An electronic screen in Tokyo displays the yen exchange rate against the U.S. dollar and the graph showing its recent swings, on Thursday.
Harajuku strives to reclaim its former glory — and surpass it
Laforet Harajuku, which celebrated its 45th anniversary last year, has been a witness to the district's evolution over the years.
Weak yen fattens tourist wallets in Japan
People visit the Ameya Yokocho market in Tokyo's Ueno district during the Golden Week holiday on Tuesday.
Japan's May 1 intervention may have cost ¥3.66 trillion, BOJ data suggests
An electronic screen displays a graph showing Japanese yen exchange rates surging against the dollar amid signs of intervention by authorities, in Tokyo on Thursday.
Kishida sets sights on energy and climate in South America trip
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will use a policy speech in Sao Paulo to set out his vision for ties between Japan and South America, almost 10 years after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for stronger ties between the two in the same city.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.

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