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Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 19, 2014
Julian Assange hopes to exit embassy in London if U.K. lets him, spokesman says
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has spent over two years inside Ecuador's London embassy to avoid extradition to Sweden, said on Monday he planned to leave the building "soon," but his spokesman said that could only happen if Britain lets him.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 17, 2014
Former Kanagawa assemblyman arrested for possession of stimulants
Kanagawa Prefectural Police on Wednesday arrested a former prefectural assembly member for alleged possession of illegal stimulant drugs.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 15, 2014
Police may arrest system engineer involved in Benesse data leak
A systems engineer who admitted to involvement in a massive customer data leak at Benesse Holdings may face arrest, investigative sources say, adding that police plan to launch a formal investigation as early as this month.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 6, 2014
Ex-Itochu accountant embezzled ¥600 million from N.Z. affiliate: police
A former employee of major trading house Itochu Corp. was arrested Sunday on suspicion of embezzling approximately ¥600 million from an affiliate in New Zealand, police said.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jun 11, 2014
Ex-Novartis worker seized for faking clinical trial data of blood pressure drug
A former employee of Novartis Pharma K.K. has been arrested for allegedly manipulating clinical study data for one of the company's drugs.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
May 8, 2014
Man held on suspicion of owning guns made with 3-D printer
A 27-year-old man who allegedly made handguns with a 3-D printer was arrested Thursday on suspicion of illegal weapons possession, the first time Japan's firearms control law has been applied to the possession of guns made by this method.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Dec 10, 2013
Japanese politician arrested in China for drug possession
Police in Guangdong province, China, have formally arrested a 70-year-old municipal assembly member from Aichi Prefecture for allegedly possessing illegal drugs, local officials said Monday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 3, 2013
Former Nagano pension exec found on lam in Bangkok
A former senior executive of a Japanese pension fund admitted Saturday to embezzlement in a scandal in which billions of yen in company pension money was lost.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 30, 2013
Brazilian facing arrest jumps to his death from Aichi apartment building
A 39-year-old Brazilian man facing an arrest warrant for alleged theft and overstaying his visa leaped to his death from a 16-meter roof of an apartment building in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, on Tuesday evening, police said.
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 Times
JAPAN
Sep 20, 2013
Kyoto man held after he admits killing ex-lover
Police have arrested a store manager from Kyoto on suspicion of stabbing to death his former girlfriend, whose body was found earlier this week on a path in Kameoka, Kyoto Prefecture, police officials said.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 26, 2013
Teens held in mugging needed cash for AKB48 garb
Four teenage boys were arrested earlier this month for allegedly robbing and injuring a man on a Tokyo street because they needed cash to buy custom-made outfits to sport in a handshaking event involving the pop idol group AKB48, police said Monday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 4, 2013
Korean fishing boat skipper arrested
The Japan Coast Guard has arrested the captain of a South Korean fishing boat that ignored an order to stop for inspection in Japan's exclusive economic zone, the coast guard said Sunday.
JAPAN
Jul 18, 2013
Man, more teens nabbed in girl's killing
A 21-year-old man is arrested along with two male and three female teenagers in connection with the slaying of a 16-year-old girl, whose corpse was found on a mountain in Hiroshima Prefecture.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 20, 2013
Four wounded in Tokyo street stabbing spree
A man who knifed four people on the street during a rampage in central Tokyo is arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Feb 6, 2013
Photog Leslie Kee nabbed for selling genitalia pics
Singaporean photographer Leslie Kee and two others have been arrested on suspicion of selling photo collections containing images of male genitalia in Tokyo, an act police say constitutes illegal distribution of obscene documents.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 3, 2013
Coast guard arrests Chinese skipper for illegally fishing in Japan's EEZ
The coast guard arrested the captain of a Chinese boat Saturday on suspicion of illegally fishing for coral in Japan's exclusive economic zone near Miyako Island, Okinawa Prefecture.
Japan's population continues to fall even as foreign resident count rises
The number of residents in Tokyo as of Jan. 1 rose by 0.03% from a year before, data shows, marking a year-on-year increase for the first time in three years, while the country's other 46 prefectures saw their populations continue to decline.
Ahead of the Olympics, Japan is still talking about the gymnast who won't be there
Japan's Shoko Miyata withdrew from the gymnastics team herself over her drinking and smoking, although it had already appeared as though the association was prepared to send her home from the team’s training camp in Monaco.
Japan’s minimum wage set for record ¥50 hike in major boost
Demonstrators rally to demand a big hike in minimum wages in Tokyo last week.
One dead, three missing as heavy rain batters Tohoku
Camera footage shows the Mogami River bursting its banks in Tozawa, Yamagata Prefecture, on Friday morning.
Brazil issues apology for persecuting Japan immigrants during WWII
Enea Almeida (right), chair of the Brazilian amnesty commission, shakes hands with the representative for Japanese immigrants on Thursday in Brasilia.
When did summer in Japan stop being fun?
Summer in Japan is now consistently brutal enough to drive you indoors and keep you there until autumn.
Japan’s minimum wage set for record ¥50 hike in major boost
Demonstrators rally to demand a big hike in minimum wages in Tokyo last week.
Japan loses top spot on strongest passport list to Singapore
Japan had the strongest passport for six years running from 2018, before being dethroned by Singapore on the 2024 list.
Why Japan's mysterious stash of classified funds escapes scrutiny
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi (right) during a meeting in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Japan eyes gold — and the future — as Olympic men's soccer campaign begins
Japan midfielder Yu Hirakawa controls the ball during a match against the United States in Kansas City, Kansas, on June 11.

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