The chief of Shiga Prefectural Police department has apologized to a former assistant nurse who was acquitted of murdering a patient in a retrial after serving her prison term. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/07/japan/crime-legal/japan-police-apology-false-conviction/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #falseconvictions #japanesecourts #shiga #mikanishiyama #nurses
The Tokyo police admitted Thursday that it made a "serious mistake" in accusing executives of a spray dryer firm of illegally exporting equipment that could be converted into weapons. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/07/japan/crime-legal/japan-police-illegal-investigation/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #mpd #ohkawarakakohki
Japan is urging China to impose a strict punishment for last week's attack on a Japanese citizen in the Chinese city of Suzhou, the government said Monday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/04/japan/crime-legal/japan-calls-for-strict-punishment-suzhou-attack/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #chinajapanrelations #china #suzhou
The Public Security Intelligence Agency has officially recognized the second son of Chizuo Matsumoto, former leader of the now-defunct Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult, as leader of the group's successor organization Aleph. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/04/japan/crime-legal/aum-shinrikyo-founder-son-aleph-leader/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #aumshinrikyo #aleph #massmurder
A billionaire best known for bringing Formula One night racing to Singapore has pleaded guilty in relation to a scandal to supply one of the city-state’s most senior politicians with luxury gifts. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/04/asia-pacific/crime-legal/billionaire-ong-guilty-singapore/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #crimelegal #ongbengseng #singapore #corruption
Prato, a city near Florence that is Europe's largest apparel manufacturing center, has turned into a battleground for warring Chinese mafia groups seeking to control it. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/04/world/crime-legal/italy-fast-fashion-chinese-mafia/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #crimelegal #china #fastfashion #apparel #fashion #italy #organizedcrime #smuggling
Tokyo prosecutors are considering issuing a summary indictment of Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Koichi Hagiuda's policy secretary for violating the political funds control law over the LDP's slush fund scandal. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/04/japan/crime-legal/hagiuda-secretary-summary-indictment/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #politicalfunds #ldp
Ghislaine Maxwell has been transferred to a minimum-security facility in Texas to continue serving her 20-year sentence for helping the late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse underage girls. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/02/world/crime-legal/ghislaine-maxwell-prison-move/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #crimelegal#ghislainemaxwell #us #donaldtrump #jeffreyepstein #sexcrimes
An "unknown assailant" attacked and wounded a Japanese national accompanied by a child in the Chinese city of Suzhou, Tokyo's Embassy said Friday, calling on Beijing to prevent such incidents. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/02/japan/crime-legal/china-japan-national-attacked-suzhou/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #china #chinajapanrelations #wwii #history
A high court ruling that acquitted a 60-year-old man in a high-profile retrial over a 1986 murder of a 15-year-old junior high school girl in the Japanese city of Fukui has been finalized — 38 years after his arrest. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/01/japan/crime-legal/shoshi-maekawa-acquittal-finalized/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesecourts#fukui #falseconvictions
Fraud cases in which offenders pretend to be police officers and swindle targeted people out of money under the pretext of investigation are increasing sharply in Japan, data has shown. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/01/japan/crime-legal/fake-police-fraud-cases-surge/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #fraud #japanesepolice #npa
The Tokyo High Court on Thursday upheld a lower court ruling ordering advertising giant Dentsu Group to pay ¥300 million in fines over bid-rigging related to the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics in 2021. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/31/japan/crime-legal/dentsu-bid-rigging-uphold/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #dentsu#2020tokyoolympics #advertising #corruption #japanesecourts #2020tokyoparalympics
The Tokyo District Court ordered Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings on Wednesday to pay about ¥100 million ($675,000) in damages over the 2011 accident at its Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/30/japan/crime-legal/tepco-ordered-to-pay-damages-nuclear-disaster/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #fukushimano1 #311 #earthquakes #tsunami #futaba #fukushima #japanesecourts
The ratio of car accidents in Japan resulting in death or serious injury that were caused by foreign drivers hit a record high of 2.1% in January-June, according to National Police Agency data. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/30/japan/crime-legal/foreign-drivers-accident-record/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #npa #driving #tourism#trafficaccidents #japanesepolice
Sexually exploitative images of Chinese women were shared in encrypted Telegram chat groups with hundreds of thousands of users, Chinese media reported, triggering widespread outrage online. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/29/asia-pacific/crime-legal/china-telegram-exploitative-women-images/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #crimelegal #china #sexcrimes #socialmedia #telegram #privacy #women039sissues
Tokyo District Court on Tuesday sentenced a senior member of the "JP Dragon" crime ring based in the Philippines to three years and six months in prison for fraud. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/29/japan/crime-legal/jp-dragon-senior-sentence/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #jpdragon #fraud #japanesecourts #philippines #tokyo #organizedcrime
The National Police Agency's annual white paper noted that the spread of social media has made it easier for loosely organized crime groups comprising anonymous members to contact ordinary citizens and commit crimes. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/29/japan/crime-legal/police-report-social-media/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #npa #socialmedia #japanesepolice #fraud
A Japanese employee of Astellas Pharma, who has been sentenced to three years and six months in prison for espionage in China, did not appeal the ruling by a Monday deadline, embassy officials said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/29/japan/crime-legal/astellas-no-appeal/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #espionage #chinajapanrelations #astellaspharma #china
Police arrested a 48-year-old man on suspicion of attempted murder after six passersby were injured in a stabbing and beating spree on streets in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Monday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/29/japan/crime-legal/japan-stabbing-spree/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #stabbings #japanesepolice #ibaraki
A 24-year-old Vietnamese man working in Japan as a technical intern has been arrested over the murder of a Japanese language teacher at her home in the city of Imari, Saga Prefecture. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/28/japan/crime-legal/vietnamese-technical-intern-arrested/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #vietnam #foreigntrainees #saga