Fuji TV is suing its former president, Koichi Minato, and former executive vice president, Toru Ota, for ¥5 billion over their mishandling of a “sexual violence” scandal involving former TV personality Masahiro Nakai. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/28/japan/crime-legal/fuji-tv-sues-former-execs/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #fujitv #japanesecourts #koichiminato #toruota
Japanese authorities have issued a joint advisory about Salt Typhoon, a Chinese government-backed hacker group, in a document prepared by the United States and signed by 13 countries including the U.K. and Canada. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/28/japan/crime-legal/china-hacker-group-warning/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #cybersecurity #hacking #japanesepolice
A Hong Kong court said it will deliver its verdict in media tycoon Jimmy Lai's national security trial at a later date, in a case that has drawn global attention as a test of the rule of law in the Chinese-ruled city. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/28/asia-pacific/crime-legal/hong-kong-jimmy-lai-trial/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #crimelegal#jimmylai #appledaily #hongkong #china #democracy
A 35-year-old man arrested in Kobe in connection with the fatal stabbing of a young woman last week had reportedly been staying in a hotel near the victim’s home for several days. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/24/japan/crime-legal/kobe-stabbing-arrest-hotel/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #kobe #tokyo #stabbings
Police arrested a 35-year-old man on Friday on suspicion of stabbing a 24-year-old woman to death in Kobe, people familiar with the investigation said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/23/japan/crime-legal/kobe-stabbing-arrest/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #murder #stabbings #tokyo #kobe #japanesepolice
A U.S. federal judge has ordered a halt to new construction at "Alligator Alcatraz" and barred bringing more detainees to the migrant detention center in the Florida Everglades. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/22/world/crime-legal/alligator-alcatraz-halt-order/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #crimelegal #us #donaldtrump #immigration #humanrights
The U.S. Supreme Court has let the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump cut off potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in medical grants that officials say don’t align with his policies. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/22/world/crime-legal/top-court-trump-health-grant-cuts/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #crimelegal #us #donaldtrump #ussupremecourt #nationalinstitutesofhealth #medicalgrants
A New York state appeals court has preserved a fraud case against U.S. President Donald Trump but threw out a half-billion-dollar penalty, enabling him to rebound from one of his biggest legal defeats. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/22/world/crime-legal/trump-huge-court-win/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #crimelegal #us #donaldtrump #letitiajames #trumporganization
Tokyo police are sounding the alarm about online message boards that could be serving as hubs for people to coordinate actual crimes involving sexual violence. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/22/japan/crime-legal/police-warn-of-social-media-posts-soliciting-rapists/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #socialmedia #rape #sexcrimes
A Kyoto court has ruled the founder of video-sharing service FC2 guilty of hosting obscene videos on the platform, sentencing him to a suspended jail term of three years and a fine of ¥2.5 million. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/21/japan/crime-legal/japan-video-platform-founder-guilty/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesecourts #fc2 #video #socialmedia
Police are searching for a male suspect after a woman was stabbed to death in an apartment building in Kobe on Wednesday evening. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/21/japan/crime-legal/kobe-murder/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #hyogo #kobe #japanesepolice #murder #homicide
Aichi Prefectural Police have arrested 29 extradited Japanese nationals on suspicion of involvement in phone scams conducted from a northeastern Cambodian town. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/21/japan/crime-legal/aichi-fraud-cambodia-arrest/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #aichi #cambodia #fraud #japanesepolice
A Japanese national living in Japan is suspected of ordering the killing of two fellow Japanese men in Manila, possibly over a financial dispute, Philippine police said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/20/japan/crime-legal/manila-killing-suspects-arrested/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #philippinejapanrelations #guns #philippines #tourism
A 51-year-old man has been arrested in Akita Prefecture on suspicion of fatally stabbing his 93-year-old father, after authorities initially considered the possibility he had been mauled by a bear. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/20/japan/crime-legal/son-murder-akita/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #akita #japanesepolice #bears
Police in Fukushima Prefecture arrested a 23-year-old pachinko parlor employee over a robbery case in which the employee allegedly opened the parlor's safe while pretending to be threatened to do so. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/20/japan/crime-legal/pachinko-parlor-worker-robbery/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #robbery #fukushima #pachinko
Garcia Harfuch has earned praise for helping deliver on Sheinbaum's vision of increased cooperation with the U.S. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/19/world/crime-legal/battle-tested-mexico-cop/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #crimelegal #mexico #us #mexicousrelations
Lawyers for Iwao Hakamata, who was acquitted in a retrial after being detained for 47 years and seven months, has said they plan to seek around ¥600 million in damages from the central and prefectural governments. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/19/japan/crime-legal/hakamata-damages-governments/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #iwaohakamata #shizuoka #falseconvictions #japanesecourts
Philippine police have arrested two male suspects over the deadly shootings of two Japanese nationals in Manila last week, with authorities saying the suspects may have been hired to kill the victims. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/19/japan/crime-legal/manila-japanese-shooting-arrest/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #philippinejapanrelations #guns
A military court found a New Zealand soldier guilty of attempted espionage for a foreign power on Monday — the first spying conviction in the country's history. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/18/asia-pacific/crime-legal/new-zealand-soldier-espionage/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #crimelegal #newzealand #espionage
Two Japanese nationals were shot to death in Manila on Friday night, officials at the Japanese embassy in the Philippine capital said Sunday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/18/japan/crime-legal/japanese-shot-dead-manila/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #philippinesjapanrelations #manila #guns