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POLICE

Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 12, 2016
U.S. police probing November death of former Russian Press Minister Lesin
Police are investigating whether former Russian Press Minister Mikhail Lesin, who was found dead in a Washington hotel in November, was brutally assaulted before returning to the hotel, a U.S. law enforcement source said Friday.
EDITORIALS
Feb 27, 2016
A troubling low autopsy rate
Japan's low rate of conducting autopsies means a large of murders could be going undetected.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 26, 2016
Undergoing the third degree in prewar Japan
A New Zealander who was taken into custody by prewar Japanese police provides a haunting account of jailhouse torture.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Feb 10, 2016
Kochi cops probed Kiyohara for drugs decade ago but lacked evidence to arrest
Former professional baseball player Kazuhiro Kiyohara, who was arrested last week for alleged drug possession, became the target of a drug investigation by police in Kochi Prefecture 10 years ago, media reports said Tuesday.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Feb 9, 2016
Hong Kong riot police clash with protesters amid crackdown on street vendors
Riot police used batons and pepper spray early Tuesday to disperse crowds from clashes that erupted when authorities tried to move illegal street vendors from a working-class district.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Feb 8, 2016
Words about sentences: the Japanese vocab of crime and punishment
Navigating the terms and kanji involved in the penal process in Japan can be a trial in itself.
EDITORIALS
Feb 7, 2016
Investigators' abuse of DNA testing
DNA evidence in criminal cases must be handled in a more secure and transparent manner to ensure justice is served.
In a first, Japan issues cease-and-desist order against Google
The Google logo is seen at the company's Bay View campus in Mountain View, California. Japanese authorities on Tuesday issued a cease-and-desist order to Google over an alleged violation of the country's anti-monopoly law.
Tokyo hotel operators face possible warnings over suspected price cartel
Foreign tourists gather on a platform at Kyoto Station on Wednesday.
Japan and the U.S. begin tariff talks on good terms, but without breakthroughs
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's chief tariff negotiator, speaks to reporters in Washington on Wednesday.
Parts of Yamanote and Keihin-Tohoku lines to be suspended over weekend
Sections of the outer loop of Tokyo's Yamanote Line and the Keihin-Tohoku Line will be shut down all day Saturday, and from the start of service through around noon on Sunday.
China executes man over Japanese school bus stop murder
The bus stop in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China, where a Japanese mother, her child, and a Chinese woman were attacked in June 2024
Tokyo hotel operators face possible warnings over suspected price cartel
Foreign tourists gather on a platform at Kyoto Station on Wednesday.
Kyotographie 2025 opts for laughter and levity in the face of global strife
Palestinian American photographer Adam Rouhana’s exhibition at this year’s Kyotographie festival shows Palestinian life, not death and rubble.
Privacy and transparency clash in debate over bill on artificial insemination
Sachiko Ishizuka, who was born via artificial insemination by donor (AID), tells her story to lawmakers from the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan on April 9.
Why Ishiba became the first prime minister to hold talks with Rengo in 16 years
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and Japanese Trade Union Confederation chief Tomoko Yoshino in a meeting Tuesday at the Prime Minister's Office
In a first, Japan issues cease-and-desist order against Google
The Google logo is seen at the company's Bay View campus in Mountain View, California. Japanese authorities on Tuesday issued a cease-and-desist order to Google over an alleged violation of the country's anti-monopoly law.

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