January 23, 2025

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The arrest warrant alleges that in the early hours of Sep. 5 last year, the suspects conspired to wrap the child’s mouth, arms and legs with tape before placing him inside a cardboard box at their apartment.

JAPAN / Crime & Legal

Jan 22, 2025

Mother and grandfather arrested for alleged abuse of 3-year-old boy

The boy is currently hospitalized in a coma. While he has no visible external injuries, police are investigating whether the pair subjected him to repeated abuse.

Tsutomu Ide speaks to reporters after the ruling in the city of Osaka on Monday.

JAPAN / Crime & Legal

Jan 21, 2025

In first, Osaka increases compensation to family of disabled girl

It is the first ruling to calculate the potential future income of a disabled child in the same way as able-bodied people.

Experts in Japan emphasize the importance of supplementing a new legal framework with expanded opportunities for drug education targeted at young people.

JAPAN / Crime & Legal

Jan 21, 2025

Many in Japan advocate for drug education to combat cannabis abuse

More than 80% of cannabis-related cases detected in Osaka in 2023 involved people in their 20s or younger, according to the Osaka prefectural police department.

Hirohito Shibuya was arrested on suspicion of constructive forcible sexual intercourse with a girl under the age of 20 in February 2023, when he was living with his wife, eight former wives and three children.

JAPAN / Crime & Legal

Jan 21, 2025

Man who lived with many women dies before ruling on sexual assault

According to the indictment, Shibuya, 76, sexually assaulted a girl at his home by telling her that she would be eaten by aliens, weakening her resistance.

Hyogo Gov. Motohiko Saito in November in Kobe. Hideaki Takeuchi, a former Hyogo assemblyman who had taken part in investigations over workplace bullying allegations against Saito last year, died Saturday in an apparent suicide.

JAPAN / Crime & Legal

Jan 20, 2025

Former Hyogo assemblyman found dead in apparent suicide

By Francis Tang

Hideaki Takeuchi, 50, had taken part in investigations over workplace bullying allegations made against Gov. Motohiko Saito last year.

A Chinese district court is set to sentence a man next week over a knife attack in June last year, in which a Japanese woman and her child, and a Chinese woman were attacked in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province.

JAPAN / Crime & Legal

Jan 18, 2025

China court to sentence man over Japanese school bus stabbings

In the sentencing hearing, attention will likely be paid to how the court will mention the attacker's motive as well as the severity of the sentence.

According to Tokyo police, a group of seven people, including dentists, submitted falsified claims in June 2023 for the treatment of 62 foreign students and technical trainees from Nepal, Myanmar and Sri Lanka, fraudulently obtaining around ¥2.87 million ($18,500) in medical fees.

JAPAN / Crime & Legal

Jan 17, 2025

Tokyo police arrest dentists and others over ¥20 million medical fraud

The suspects allegedly exploited foreign students' insurance cards to fraudulently claim reimbursements from local authorities.

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Atsuyoshi Koike, the president and CEO of Rapidus, says there is a “sense of urgency” when it comes to Japan’s efforts in manufacturing semiconductors. “We have to make sure we are successful,” he says.

Atsuyoshi Koike’s big game: Fourth down and 2 nanometers to go

By Kazuaki Nagata and Richard Meyer

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