Crime in japan

I have a thing for mysteries and murders that take place in the islands, and I've been lucky enough to have read and watched some of the best on offer - Shetland (based on Ann Cleeves' jimmy perez books) and Agatha Christie And…

SEOUL, Korea (Rep. of) – More than 60 fugitives wanted for crimes ranging from financial crime to online gambling and drug trafficking have been arrested across Asia in an operation coordinated by INTERPOL .INTERPOL launched Operation…

During his trip to Tokyo, Travel+Leisure India and South Asia contributor hits the playground of 90s Japanese Yakuza underworld with true-crime novelist Jake Adelstein. By Nupur Singh Tokyo often surprises travelers with its benevolent…

TOKYO (AP) — As the United States and Japan strengthen their military alliance, they have turned to farmers' markets to foster friendlier ties between U.S. military bases and their Japanese…

Loading JustWatch data... Summary Fugitive: The Curious Case of Carlos Ghosn is a strangely constructive documentary that was to delve into the subject's childhood, his accusations…

Source: Smolaw11/AdobeCrypto-related crime continues to rise in Japan – where a news outlet reported how two men in their 30s were bitten by crypto scammers based on chat apps…

The Yomiuri ShimbunThe Japanese headquarters of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification in Shibuya, Tokyo. The Yomiuri Shimbun 4:06 p.m. JST, October 17, 2022 A former leader of the Unification Church - a religious group…

Beijing has set up overseas police outreach operations in more than 80 cities around the world, including one in Australia, as part of a global security campaign under the Belt and Road (BRI) of President Xi Jinping.Key points:Chinese…

File photo of the Yomiuri ShimbunShiga Prefectural Police Bureau The Yomiuri Shimbun 2:17 p.m. JST, October 9, 2022 HIGASHI-OMI, Shiga - She thought he loved her. And that he was a Russian cosmonaut as he claimed. And that…

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Published on: 05/10/2022 - 06:28Amended: 05/10/2022 - 06:26 Ginowan (Japan) (AFP) - For decades, Okinawans in Japan have strongly opposed the US military bases that dot the region,…

A Japanese man who killed and ate a woman is free to walk the streets of his native country without any restrictions.Oh, and he even said he dreamed of eating someone else before he died himself.So if you live in the greater Tokyo area, you…

In referendums in four Russian-occupied provinces of Ukraine, conducted under Russian electoral supervision and often with armed Russian officials canvassing for votes, the winner on Tuesday was — unsurprisingly — Russia.Moscow said…

Bangkok— The unchecked growth of commercial enclaves and freewheeling casinos in and around Laos opens up new money laundering and drug trafficking options for criminal networks using the country to push increasing volumes of narcotics…

Well Go USA has acquired all North American rights to Japanese director Kensuke Sonomura's hard-hitting crime thriller Bad city. A sequel to the genre director's murder thriller Hydra since last year, bad…

A 22-year-old man, who was re-arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of breaking into a government building where the Health Ministry is located using a fake Diet member's pin, has told police he had entered other ministry buildings and the…

Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sar Kheng speaks during a meeting at his ministry on September 19. Sar Kheng via Facebook Interior Minister Sar Kheng is due to hold the 16th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Transnational Crime…

TOKYO—Few people would have imagined that when former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated in public with a handmade shotgun, the man who killed him would be seen as some kind of folk hero by adoring fans across the…

Yakuzathe popular crime drama series from developer Ryū ga Gotoku Studio, is getting a new name in Western markets and will henceforth be known as Like a dragon. READ MORE: Japan-based RPGs are, frankly, the best JRPGs In an interview…

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InvestigationsIncreased regulatory riskCauses and MitigationCommentJapanese companies' focus on perceived customer satisfaction can be used to justify non-compliance with laws and regulations. Understanding the focus on customers may…

File photo of the Yomiuri ShimbunFormer Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori Jiji Press 5:15 p.m. JST, September 10, 2022 TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Tokyo prosecutors questioned Yoshiro Mori, former chairman of the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics…

According to Cisco Talos, the North Korean state-sponsored criminal network Lazarus Group is behind a new cyber espionage campaign with the aim of stealing data and trade secrets from energy suppliers in the United States, in Canada and…

Police yesterday arrested a woman in Bangkok who earned over a million baht selling fake tours from Thailand to Japan in 2014. Thailand's Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Chanphen, 49, eight years ago in October…

Haruyuki Takahashi, a former executive of the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics Organizing Committee arrested in a corruption scandal over the Games, is suspected of having also bestowed favors on Japanese publisher Kadokawa in the…

BEIJING (AP) — China has denounced a long-delayed U.N. report released following its protest that says the government's arbitrary detention of Uyghurs and other predominantly Muslim ethnic groups in the western region of Xinjiang could…

KYOTO - Japan's lack of a legal system providing a concrete basis for punishing hate crimes has been singled out by experts ahead of a court ruling on arson attacks on homes and other buildings associated with residents Korean "Zainichi".!-->…

A woman who says she couldn't tell she was molested by her uncle when she was young, is seen in Hyogo Prefecture on August 4, 2022. (Mainichi/Atsuko Nakata) KOBE --!-->…

The British actor appeared on the entertainment podcast 'WTF with Marc Maron' on Monday to promote the true-crime series 'Under the Banner of Heaven,' in which he plays a detective whose faith is shaken when called upon to investigate a…

(Paris, Tokyo) FIDH and the Center for Prisoners' Rights (CPR) denounce the use of solitary confinement and intrusive video surveillance of prisoners sentenced to death in Japan. Such measures constitute serious human rights violations and…

Washington- A US court on Friday sentenced an Islamic State militant to life in prison on charges including the deaths of American, British and Japanese hostages in Syria. El Shafee Elsheikh, from Britain, was found guilty in April of…

Yang Jiechi, Member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and Director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the CPC Central Committee, Co-Chairs the Ninth China-Japan High-Level…

TOKYO – Verizon Business is helping Japan's FUJIFILM Holdings and its subsidiaries build global cybersecurity surveillance and intelligence capabilities. As part of Fujifilm's ongoing IT infrastructure transformation, the company's…

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's second cabinet is now inaugurated. Following a reshuffling of leadership positions, Katsunobu Kato is minister of health, labor and social affairs for the third time, and Yasukazu Hamada is minister of…

For its Korean American supporters, the statue would pay welcome attention to one of the lesser known atrocities of World War II - how Korean women were detained and raped by the Japanese military during World War II.But for some members of…

With Yakuza 7 now free on PlayStation Plus and most series arriving with the Extra tier later this month, you might be tempted to jump right in and experience the cult action RPG hit for yourself. But with so many games in the series, it…

Breadcrumb Links PMN Policy PMN News PMN crime Author of the article: Reuters Tim Kelly and Ju Min Park Publication date : August 09, 2022 • 33 minutes ago • 3 minute read • Join the…

"Humanity is playing with a loaded gun," UN chief Antonio Guterres said Saturday in Hiroshima, on the 77th anniversary of the US atomic bomb attack on Japan.“Tens of thousands of people were killed in this city in the blink of an eye.…

BEIJING (AP) — China has said it is canceling or suspending dialogue with the United States on issues ranging from climate change to military relations and anti-drug efforts in retaliation for the president's visit to Taiwan this week. of…

As the number of gang members in Japan dwindles, a power struggle continues between the Yamaguchi-gumi and their splinter group the Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi. A report from Japan's National Police Agency said…

Haruyuki Takahashi, a former board member of the Tokyo Olympics organizing committee, received 230 million yen from Japanese clothing manufacturer Aoki Holdings Inc. in 2017, in addition to official consultancy fees, officials said on…

Brittany Alkonis, her three young children and two of their grandparents did the unimaginable on Thursday, leaving Japan without their husband, father and son, Navy Lt. Ridge Alkonis, after starting what…

SENDAI, Japan — Kotaro Isaka, one of Japan's most popular crime thriller writers, describes himself as a homebody. He rarely leaves Sendai, the city in northeastern Japan where he lives, and many of his books are there.Yet when his 2010…

Nowhere is ultimately safe in this world, the crime rate varies from country to country and has been influenced by many factors!-->…

Opposition is mounting to plans to hold a state funeral for former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was shot dead earlier this month.The cabinet on Friday approved arrangements for the funeral - only the second of its kind for a…

Paris - Authoritarian regimes around the world are persecuting their opponents living abroad more vigorously than ever before and some are getting away with murder, literally. A glaring example of the impunity enjoyed by some…

Judge Martin Karopkin (right) is pictured with his judicial colleagues from the UN tribunal in Cambodia. The deputy. Martin Karopkin, who has served in courts in Kosovo and Cambodia, brought his legal and police expertise on war crimes to…

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Thursday blamed insufficient police protection for the death of former leader Shinzo Abe, who was shot while delivering a campaign speech outdoors. Abe, one of Japan's most…

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AYESHA RASCOE, HOST: Exit polls point to victory for Japan's ruling party in parliamentary elections that were overshadowed by the assassination two days ago of former prime minister Shinzo Abe. It's no…

Mr Abe won the leadership vote for his Liberal Democratic Party in 2018. He was Japan's longest-serving prime minister.Credit...Toru Hanai/ReutersShinzo Abe, Japan's longest-serving prime minister, who made it his political mission to…

OMAHA – Around Lewis Klanderud, no one remained a stranger for long.It didn't matter whether you were training alongside her in the Philippines for post-WWII occupation duty, another patron of the Nifty Bar, her longtime…

The global Crime Risk Market report focuses on a comprehensive analysis of the current and future prospects of the Crime Risk industry. In-depth analysis of historical trends, future trends, SWOT analysis, demographics,…

Mitsue Tomiyama is seen on a hill overlooking the U.S. military base at White Beach in Uruma, Okinawa Prefecture, June 15, 2022. (Mainichi/Shinnosuke Kyan) NAHA - The!-->…

Phoenix Mercury guard Sophie Cunningham wears a t-shirt in support of Brittney Griner before a game against the Las Vegas Aces on May 6.(Darryl Webb/Associated Press) Once the US government officially classified Griner as…

Murder Before Evensong by Richard Coles (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £16.99)The first in a projected series from the pop star turned vicar and memoirist, Murder Before Evensong takes place in the late 1980s in the English village of…

By Morf Morford Tacoma Daily Index In all categories, from education to dentistry to business investment, a simple idiom prevails; Prevention is better than cure. Any crisis, from homelessness to drug addiction to mass shootings and more,…

Perhaps one of the most influential subgenres in film history, the samurai film is largely responsible for many popular trends in world cinema. Without this, star warsspaghetti westerns and many films by Quentin Tarantino would either…

Ohio Association of Mayors President Mike Barhorst greets Ohio Governor Mike DeWine at the Ohio Association of Mayors Annual Conference after telling the audience about mayors that the 70th governor of Ohio provided "transformational…

The Diet passed a revision of the penal code to integrate two categories of detention - "choeki" and "kinko" - into one called "kokin". The revision removed the traditional classification into two types!--googleon:index-->…

China has arrested nine men after video footage of a vicious attack on a group of diners at a barbecue restaurant sparked outrage and debate about women's rights on social media. The attack took place Friday morning in the northern…

January 6 Panel: Investigation Shows Trump Led Effort to Cancel 2020 ElectionWashington and large swathes of the United States are still reeling on Friday after members of a House committee investigating the January 6, 2021 attack on the…

(Getty Images) The Mainichi Shimbun answers some common questions readers may have about Japan's measures to prevent child sexual abuse in day care centers and other!-->…

Placeholder while loading article actionsThe best political slogans are simple and direct: think “It's the economy, stupid” or former British leader Tony Blair: “Tough on crime, hard on the causes of crime”.Japanese politicians usually…

Among the evidence relied on by a special court in Mumbai while sentencing a 44-year-old man to death for the rape and murder of a woman in the Saki Naka neighborhood of the city, is a "gait analysis" report. The prosecution relied on a…

Tokyo Regional Tax Bureau employee Kohei Tsukamoto, left, is seen referred to prosecutors at the Metropolitan Police Department's Mejiro Police Station in Tokyo's Toshima!-->…

The stewardess (Sky Max) | now tvLucy Worsley Investigates: The Witch Hunt (BBC Two) | iPlayerDeputy Tokyo (Starz Play)big boys (Channel 4) | All 4How disappointing when a first series is all tumultuous, slimy moxie, rebooting tired spy…

Responding to the call of a mass shooting, police officers in the United States are trained, first and foremost, to stop the shooter. Act with urgency. Defend innocent lives. As new questions emerged on Friday about the police…

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KYIV, Ukraine - Ukrainians dug in to defend the eastern city of Sievierodonetsk as it came under heavy shelling from Russian forces attempting to take the industrial zone known as Donbass.!--googleon:index-->…

“Izakayas (informal bars that serve alcohol and snacks) are busy establishments,” he said. "There is very little room for mistakes."Ishii, the eldest of two boys, often went to the market in the morning to buy rice, vegetables and eel,…

A North Korean computer engineer based in China has received compensation for developing a smartphone app for a Japanese company while using the name of a South Korean national living in Japan, police said Wednesday.…

In this decade and the next day, astronauts will go into space like never before. This will include missions beyond low Earth orbit (LEO) for the first time in more than fifty years, renewed missions to the Moon and crewed missions to…

In this decade and the next, astronauts will go into space like never before. This will include missions beyond low Earth orbit (LEO) for the first time in over fifty years, renewed missions to the Moon, and crewed missions to Mars.…

Tokyo, 1999. Recent American graduate Jake Adelstein (Elgort) gets a job as a crime reporter at a major Japanese newspaper, the paper's first foreign-born reporter. With the help of a veteran detective (Watanabe) and a local "hostess"…

TOKYO — Japan should do more for peaceful diplomacy with China and not just focus on deterring weapons as tensions rise around Taiwan west of Okinawa, the prefectural governor of Tokyo said on Friday. South Island, demanding a further…

BOGOTA, Colombia — As women in the United States are on the verge of losing their constitutional right to abortion, courts in many other parts of the world have taken the opposite direction.This includes in a number of traditionally…

The most basic war crime is to wage war. Article I of the 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact, or Paris Pact, obliges its signatories to declare that they "condemn recourse to war for the solution of international disputes and renounce it as an…

Dozens of dented trucks loaded with gold ore wind through the desert in northeast Sudan and dump their load at a compound on the outskirts of the town of Atbara.The tons of ore, mined by small miners in Nile State, are then…

Moscow/Tokyo – Moscow said on Wednesday it was expelling eight Japanese diplomats in a tit-for-tat response to deportations by Tokyo over the conflict in Ukraine.Accusing Tokyo of following an "openly hostile anti-Russian course", the…

Nobody likes crime and nobody should. But there is something about crime dramas and thrillers that is very empowering. And that's why there's a huge audience for crime shows. It's probably because of the thrill and excitement…

More than 50% of respondents to a government survey said they believe public safety in Japan has deteriorated over the past 10 years, with many worrying about online fraud and cybercrime , according to results released…

Ghosn staged a daring getaway, being smuggled out of Japan in a briefcase of audio equipment on a private jet, in 2019.France has issued an international arrest warrant for Carlos Ghosn, the car tycoon who skipped bail in Japan and fled to…

An Irish drug cartel sanctioned by the US government last week is working in partnership with the fearsome Lyons gang in Scotland, an MSP has claimed. Speaking at Holyrood on Tuesday, Russell Findlay also said he believed Scottish!-->…

Danger is a good teacher, Hazlitt said, and there are some hard lessons to be learned from this month's peril-filled selection of mystery novels. by Don Winslow city ​​on fire (HarperCollins, £20) sports a myriad of sources of…

The Tainan District Court on Tuesday cleared three members of the Taiwan People's Communist Party who affixed a mask resembling the Chinese flag to a statue…

Besancon, France – A French court on Tuesday sentenced a Chilean man to 28 years in prison for the 2016 murder of his Japanese ex-girlfriend in eastern France, following a high-profile investigation across three continents.The…

Foreign residents take to the streets of Tokyo's Shibuya district on May 30, 2020 to protest Japanese police's alleged mistreatment of a Kurd. (Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) - A!-->…

As the world's wealthy democratic powers roll out new sanctions against Russia in response to the terrifying images of Ukrainians being executed in the town of Bucha, it has become clear that the simplest options have now been…

A copper smuggling ring in Costa Rica was stealing tons of metal from the country's power and telephone wires to send to Asia, the latest example of how this crime is gradually becoming more…

Finixio, a London-based digital media company, is rolling out sports betting products in the Balkan, German and Japanese markets, a press release said on Friday (April 1). The products are Kladionica.com for the Balkans,…

South Korean female directors are gaining more recognition both at home and abroad as the #MeToo movement gains momentum in their country and calls for a more diverse society. Two directors, Lee Kil Bora and Park Ji…

ReportLinkerMajor Players of Fraud Detection and Prevention market are IBM Corporation, FICO, Oracle Corporation, SAS Institute, BAE Systems, DXC Technology, SAP SE, ACI Worldwide, Fiserv, Inc., ThreatMetrix company, NICE syatem Ltd.New…

KYIV, Ukraine: Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky called on people around the world to come together in public on Thursday to show support for his beleaguered country as he prepared to address US President Joe Biden and others NATO…

True North True Crime finds its voice as a victim-centric true crime podcast. During the pandemic lockdown days, some people have adopted a new fitness routine; others learned to knit or bake sourdough bread. Vancouver…

What war crimes are being committed in Ukraine? Russia's invasion of Ukraine constitutes a crime of aggression under international law. The main charge against top leaders of Nazi Germany at the Nuremberg trials and Japan at the Tokyo war…

Editor-in-chief Marina Ovsyannikova holds up a protest sign during a newscast broadcast by Yekaterina Andreyeva on Russia's Channel One © AFP via Getty ImagesA state television worker burst into Russian state television's main evening news…

The Batman has been in theaters for a week now, and in the second weekend of the superhero epic, World's Greatest Detective is still smashing it at the box office. Worldwide, the Matt Reeves the directed film passed the $400 million…

The number of people under the age of 18 who were abducted through the use of social media in Japan in 2021 rose by 11 from the previous year to a record 86, the government said on Thursday. National Police Agency.The increase in the…

The treatment of 34 people accused of having received money but having escaped indictment in a high-profile vote-buying scandal involving the 2019 House of Councilors election has been transferred to the prosecutor's office. Hiroshima…

Kseniya Fomichova speaks from her hometown of Kharkiv in Ukraine, currently overrun by Russian troops, in Kofu, Yamanashi prefecture, March 2, 2022. (Mainichi/Keisuke!-->…

A highly unusual impeachment of a suspended High Court judge began on March 2 over "offensive" tweets, but legal experts have said his actions are unlikely to lead to his dismissal. Kiichi Okaguchi, 56,!--googleon:index-->…

The two prosecutors leading the Manhattan prosecutor's criminal case against former US President Donald Trump's real estate company and its longtime chief financial officer have quit unexpectedly, according to a person familiar with…

Sometimes, even as a cynical columnist, you find yourself driven to write about something really good, something amazing, something - OK, I don't want to get carried away here, because this story also has the opposition , expected setbacks…

US President Joe Biden pledged to fight racism on Friday as the country marks 80 years since signing an executive order that led to the incarceration of some 120,000 Japanese Americans during the Second World War. While…

NEW YORK—A man has been arrested four days after violently destroying information booths in Flushing that were meant to expose the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) long-standing persecution of the religious group Falun Gong. The attacker,…

WASHINGTON- DNA tests on seized ivory shipments that reveal family links between African elephants killed for their tusks are helping identify poaching areas and trafficking networks at the center of an illegal trade devastating the…

A teenager has been sentenced to 10 years to life for shooting and killing a man when he was 14. Pedro Jauregui-Sahagun, now 17, pleaded guilty in November to second-degree murder in the Feb. 26, 2019 shooting of 19-year-old Ja'Twion…

A young Tokyo mother who left her 3-year-old daughter home alone for more than a week while partying with her boyfriend has been found guilty of causing the child's death and has was sentenced to an!--googleon:index-->…

HBO Max and WOWOW have revealed a new image and release date for their upcoming action thriller series Deputy Tokyo. Based on a true story, the series starring Ansel Elgort follows a young American journalist who is sent to chronicle the…

The Supreme Court is seen in the Chiyoda district of Tokyo in this file photo from February 10, 2019. (Mainichi/Kazuo Motohashi) In Japan, death row inmates learn when!-->…

Visualized: A Global Risk Assessment for 2022 and Beyond Since the beginning of the global pandemic, we have been navigating through turbulent waters, and this year is expected to…

HONG KONG- Police in Macau, the world's biggest gambling hub, said on Sunday they had arrested two men on allegations of illegal gambling and money laundering, as authorities step up a crackdown on illicit money outflows from from the…

MY ANNIHILATION, by Fuminori Nakamura | Translated by Sam Bett | 254 pages. SohoCrime. $25.95.Fuminori Nakamura, winner of Japan's 2010 Oe Prize for his novel "The Thief," begins his sinister and intellectually ambitious new thriller, "My…

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--January 27, 2022--Arkose Labs, the global leader in fraud deterrence and…

Susan Benda holds a photo of her parents, Harry and Eva Benda, standing outside the White House in 1952. (State Dept./DA Peterson) By Michael Laff Susan Benda holds a photo of her parents, Harry and Eva Benda,…

This photo provided shows a shinkansen train security guard with a wearable camera strapped to his chest. (Photo courtesy of East Japan Railway Co./Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) — East Japan Railway Co. plans to provide wearable!-->…

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – The United States has become increasingly involved in the investigation into the murder of Haitian President Jovenel Moise, with the main suspects facing the prospect of a trial in American courts as an…

According to a recent Financial Times article, the amount of crypto sent to addresses with known criminal associations hit a record $14 billion in 2021, more than doubling from 2020. This is according to the company's research. Chainalysis…

Neighbor of young woman stabbed to death in Los Angeles speaks outPolice have identified a man they believe to be the killer of 24-year-old Brianna Kupfer.The Los Angeles Police Department said the suspect, Shawn Laval Smith, 31, should be…