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Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 22, 2015
Black teen killed by St. Louis police shot in back: autopsy
A black teenager shot and killed by white St. Louis police officers this week died from a single gunshot that entered his back and struck his heart, a medical examiner said on Friday, which appears to contradict the police account of the shooting.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 20, 2015
Late for flight, man tried to halt departing plane at Denver
A 58-year-old man who arrived late for a flight to attend his high school reunion is accused of running onto a concourse at Denver International Airport in an attempt to stop the departing plane, prosecutors said on Wednesday.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 13, 2015
What the U.S. hasn't learned since Watts riot
The systemic concentrated poverty and police oppression that triggered the Watts rioting in 1965 in Los Angeles still marks the United States, as can be seen in Ferguson, Missouri.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 11, 2015
Heavily armed 'Oath Keepers' inject new unease in riot-hit Ferguson
Four civilians carrying automatic rifles and sidearms patrolled a riot-torn street in Ferguson, Missouri, early Tuesday, saying they were there to protect a media organization but drawing swift criticism from police and protesters alike.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 11, 2015
Ferguson in state of emergency after gunfire mars protests; hospitalized shooter charged
Authorities declared a state of emergency in Ferguson, Missouri, on Monday in an effort to quell a repeat of the violence that erupted during demonstrations overnight to mark the police shooting of an unarmed black man one year ago.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 10, 2015
Texas killing of black teen by rookie cop raises questions
Texas police on Sunday were trying to figure out what prompted a black teenager to drive his car into a car dealership, and why a white police officer still in training fatally shot the unarmed 19-year-old four times.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 7, 2015
Lower House OKs recording of suspect questioning
Landmark development in Japan's criminal justice system also includes introduction of a plea bargain system and expanding the use of the wiretap law.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 4, 2015
Najib's critics unbowed after anti-graft agency calls $700 million 'donation'
Malaysian opposition parties and activists kept up pressure on Prime Minister Najib Razak on Tuesday, undeterred by an anti-corruption agency statement apparently clearing him of receiving nearly $700 million from the debt-laden state fund 1MDB.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 4, 2015
Italy nabs 11 in hunt for Sicilian Mafia don of dons on run since '93
Police in Sicily arrested 11 suspected mobsters they believe were helping Sicilian Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro evade capture and spread his orders to the rest of the criminal organization.
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 3, 2015
India orders clampdown on Internet porn, sparks censorship debate
India has blocked hundreds of adult websites to prevent pornography becoming a social nuisance, a government official said Monday, sparking a debate about censorship and freedom in the world's largest democracy.
JAPAN / Media / DARK SIDE OF THE RISING SUN
Aug 1, 2015
Crime report suggests the yakuza are evolving
It appears the National Police Agency is serious about cracking down on organized crime.
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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