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A former employee of Mizuho Bank's Hiroo branch in Tokyo stole money from the safe deposit boxes of two clients between January 2016 and June 2019, according to the bank.

JAPAN / Crime & Legal

Feb 27, 2025

Mizuho Bank confirms ¥66 million stolen from safe deposit boxes

A former employee stole the money from two clients' safe deposit boxes between January 2016 and June 2019.

Taishi Fuwa (left), the general manager at World Woman Pro-wrestling Diana, and his lawyer Kazuhito Ozawa at a news conference in Tokyo on Thursday

JAPAN / Crime & Legal

Feb 27, 2025

Settlement reached in female pro-wrestler sexual harassment case

By Karin Kaneko

The lawsuit was filed "to raise awareness and prevent similar incidents from happening," said the general manager of the pro-wrestling agency involved.

The number of fatal bicycle accidents and those causing serious injury that were attributed to cyclists' mobile phone use totaled 28 in 2024, a record high. Similarly, the number of such accidents involving cars driven by drivers distracted by mobile phones rose to the highest on record, at 136 cases.

JAPAN / Crime & Legal

Feb 27, 2025

Accidents caused by distracted drivers hit record high in 2024

A total of 136 fatal car accidents and those resulting in serious injury due to mobile phone use were recorded last year, the highest since at least 2007.

Documents are seen in the courtroom ahead of the arrival of Nicolas Zepeda from Chile, on the opening day of his appeal trial after he was sentenced at first instance for murdering Japanese student Narumi Kurosaki, in Vesoul, France, on Feb. 21, 2023.

JAPAN / Crime & Legal

Feb 27, 2025

France's top appeals court orders retrial over alleged murder of Japanese

A French newspaper said that this extremely rare decision was due to a procedural error during an appeal trial for the case.

Voters cast their ballots for the Lower House election at a polling station in Tokyo on Oct. 27.

JAPAN / Crime & Legal

Feb 26, 2025

Three more courts find 2024 Lower House election constitutional

The plaintiffs had claimed that the maximum vote-value gap of 2.06 times in the election violated the Constitution.

The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward

JAPAN / Crime & Legal

Feb 26, 2025

Japanese authorities raise alarm over rise in fake police phone scams

Tokyo police rearrested a man suspected of being involved in multiple scams and released a voice recording in hopes of raising awareness.

Tokyo police arrested a 17-year-old boy on suspicion of attempted murder after another 17-year-old was stabbed to death on a street in the capital's Adachi Ward early Monday.

JAPAN / Crime & Legal

Feb 24, 2025

17-year-old arrested in connection with stabbing death on Tokyo street

Police officers found the victim stabbed in the right side of his chest with a knife.

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

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

The building of new high-rise residential buildings has some alarmed that they could empty and fall into disrepair as Japan's population shrinks.

The high cost of letting Japan's condos crumble

By Tomoko Otake

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