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STALKING 3

Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / DARK SIDE OF THE RISING SUN
Feb 1, 2014
War against stalkers broadens its aims
If you would, dear reader, please take a moment of your time today and let Prime Minister Shinzo Abe know that you'd like him to treat Japan's stalking problem seriously. Let him know that you'd like the Diet to make real laws that would protect the women who are subject to harassment, humiliation, injury...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 25, 2013
First lady scrutinizes blackballing of beauty queen
Ikumi Yoshimatsu's pursuit of stalking charges against powerful talent agency executives Genichi Taniguchi draws the attention of first lady Akie Abe.
EDITORIALS
Dec 15, 2013
Protecting stalking victims
New guidelines, task forces and procedures established by the National Police Agency aim to better protect stalking victims.
EDITORIALS
Oct 11, 2013
Police must take stalking seriously
The murder of an 18-year-old Tokyo high school student underscores a failed police approach to stalking cases and the danger in giving out contact info to 'friends' on social networks.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 20, 2013
Hostage drama ends without fatalities
Berlin AFP-JIJI
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media
Jul 20, 2013
Social media becomes stalkers' tool
The first man who knocked on the Fauquier County, Va., woman's door told her they had been emailing and he was there for sex. Shocked and perplexed because they hadn't corresponded, the woman sent him away.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Feb 23, 2013
The stalking cure: rehabilitating an all too common menace
When forensic psychiatrist Frank Farnham first meets a stalker, he doesn't judge. Some of his clients have done awful things. They have intimidated, pursued and terrified their victims.

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A woman passes an "akichi" (vacant lot) in Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo. The capital is littered with such small lots in part because of Japan's aging and shrinking population.
Dealing with rising land vacancies as Japan shrinks