Get your ticket to GaijinPot Expo 2024
Crime
Child abuse support worker arrested over alleged sex acts with 15-year-old boy
Police in Nagoya have arrested a 55-year-old child abuse support worker on suspicion of committing indecent acts with a 15-year-old boy. According to police, Makoto Tosaki, who works in the Welfare and Children's Division of Midori Ward, met the boy through a social networking site in early August and invited… Read
Former employee of Nomura charged with attempted murder
A former employee of Nomura Holdings has been charged by the Hiroshima District Public Prosecutors' Office for a number of crimes, including attempted murder, the financial services giant said on Wednesday. The government body has also charged the employee on suspicion of robbery and arson of an inhabited building, Nomura… Read
Man arrested for breaking into woman's apartment 40 times, looking for her underwear
Kanagawa prefectural police have arrested a 55-year-old man on suspicion of attempted theft and breaking into a female work subordinate's apartment and searching for her underwear. According to police, Tomohiro Suzuki, a company employee from Ebina, Kanagawa Prefecture, was arrested after breaking into the apartment of the woman in her… Read
Alleged Japan crime group leader arrested after Philippines deports him
A man believed to be a leader of a Japanese crime syndicate based in the Philippines was deported from the country and arrested Tuesday during his flight back to Japan on suspicion of theft in Tokyo in collusion with others, investigative sources said. Tomohiro Koyama, 50, seen as a chief… Read
Man arrested for burying mother's body in Nara cemetery
Police in Nara City, Nara Prefecture, on Tuesday arrested a 71-year-old man on suspicion of abandoning the body of his mother in a cemetery. The body was found partially buried at an unused part of the cemetery on Monday, Sankei Shimbun reported. A cemetery employee called 110 at around 2:30… Read
Life in prison sought for widow over murder of Japanese 'Don Juan'
Prosecutors sought on Monday a life term for a 28-year-old woman accused of murdering her wealthy husband who had described himself as the "Don Juan" of the western Japan area where he lived. Saki Sudo is charged with causing 77-year-old Kosuke Nozaki to ingest a lethal amount of an illegal… Read
Australian woman accused of drug smuggling says she was victim of online romance scam
An Australian woman accused of smuggling amphetamines in a suitcase appeared in a Japanese court on Monday nearly two years after her arrest, saying she is innocent and that she was tricked into carrying them as part of an online romance scam. Donna Nelson from Perth, Australia, was arrested at… Read
84-year-old man arrested for attempted murder of 53-year-old daughter
Police in Shizuoka City have arrested an 84-year-old man on suspicion of attempted murder after he hit his 53-year-old daughter on the head with a work tool at their home. According to police, the incident occurred at around 7:30 p.m. Saturday, TV Shizuoka reported. The daughter called police and said… Read
Man arrested for trying to kill woman with golf club
Police in Koshigaya, Saitama Prefecture, have arrested a 30-year-old man on suspicion of attempted murder after he hit a woman on the head with a golf club. According to police, Naoto Kobayashi, a bar manager, attacked the woman, whom he knows, on the street outside his bar at around 1… Read
Man found dead in love hotel, with restraints on hands and feet
A man was found dead in a love hotel in Osaka on Saturday night and police are looking for another man who checked into the hotel with the victim. According to police, an employee at the hotel in Tennoji Ward called 110 at around 10:50 p.m. Saturday and said there… Read
