A Hong Kong court sentenced former media mogul Jimmy Lai to 20 years in prison, giving the pro-democracy advocate the heaviest penalty ever meted out under a Beijing-imposed national security law. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/09/asia-pacific/crime-legal/hong-kong-jimmy-lai-20-years/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #crimelegal #jimmylai #hongkong #china #appledaily #democracy
Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai is set to be sentenced in the financial hub's most high-profile national security case. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/09/asia-pacific/crime-legal/hong-kong-jimmy-lai-sentencing/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #crimelegal #jimmylai #hongkong #appledaily #china
An 18-month-old girl detained for weeks by U.S. immigration authorities was returned to custody and denied medication after being hospitalized with a life-threatening respiratory illness, a lawsuit filed in Texas claims. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/08/world/crime-legal/toddler-ice-custody-medication-lawsuit/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #crimelegal #us #donaldtrump #republicans #ice #immigration #children
A look inside an abandoned scam compound in Cambodia reveals the brutality and banality of fraud. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/07/asia-pacific/crime-legal/inside-abandoned-cambodia-scam-center/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #crimelegal #cambodia #gangs #fraud #romancescams
Tokyo police have referred two lawyers and a clerical worker at a law firm to prosecutors on suspicion of receiving illegal referrals from an agency that helps people quit their jobs. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/05/japan/crime-legal/momuri-attorneys-law-suspect-violation/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #jobs #mpd #momuri #corporategovernance
Prosecutors have sought a life sentence for Toshiya Fujita, a senior member of a crime ring called "Luffy" that is behind a series of robbery and fraud cases across the country. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/05/japan/crime-legal/life-sentence-request-luffy/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesecourts #fraud #theft #philippines #luffy #gangs
A total of 337 police officers and personnel were disciplined across Japan in 2025, according to a National Police Agency tally released Thursday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/05/japan/crime-legal/npa-member-discipline/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #npa #powerharassment #fraud
Tokyo police arrested a 40-year-old nursery school teacher on Wednesday on suspicion of indecent assault on an elementary school boy during an accommodation event hosted by an after-school child care center. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/04/japan/crime-legal/nursery-teacher-sexual-abuse/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #sexcrimes #daycare #tokyo #japanesepolice
Thai and Japanese police authorities have met in Bangkok to discuss cooperation against human trafficking after a Thai girl was discovered to have been forced to provide sexual services at a massage parlor in Tokyo. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/04/japan/crime-legal/japan-thai-police-human-trafficking/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #thailandjapanrelations #thailand #japanesepolice #humantrafficking
The man who fatally shot former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is set to appeal his life imprisonment ruling. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/03/japan/crime-legal/yamagami-trial-appeal/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #shinzoabe #tetsuyayamagami #japanesecourts #nara #unificationchurch #shinzoabeassassination
The head of a company that helps people quit their jobs has been arrested along with his wife on allegations of illegally referring clients to lawyers in return for payment. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/03/japan/crime-legal/japan-resignation-agency-president-arrest/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #jobs #mpd #momuri
Japan's Supreme Court has dismissed a U.S. airman's appeal against his five-year prison sentence for kidnapping and sexually assaulting an underage girl in Okinawa Prefecture in 2023. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/03/japan/crime-legal/okinawa-rejection-airman-appeal/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #us #japanesecourts #okinawa #usmilitary #sexcrimes #usbases #usjapanrelations #women039sissues #childabuse #supremecourt
A government panel’s subcommittee has approved the outline of a review of Japan’s retrial system that would continue to allow prosecutors to file appeals against a court’s decision to start a retrial. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/03/japan/crime-legal/retrial-system-prosecutors-appeal/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesecourts #iwaohakamata #falseconvictions #justiceministry
The release by U.S. authorities of a new cache of files on late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has caused international fallout involving high profile figures. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/03/world/crime-legal/epstein-fallout-royal-resignations/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #crimelegal #jeffreyepstein #norway #uk #slovakia #belgium #losangeles #france #us
The Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office's special investigation squad has arrested a former Mita Securities executive and four other individuals on suspicion of insider trading linked to a tender offer. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/02/japan/crime-legal/japan-brokerage-insider-trading-arrest/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #mitasecurities #brokerages #nidec #stocks #tse
Five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father have returned to their home in a Minneapolis suburb after being detained by U.S. immigration officers and held at a detention facility in Texas. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/02/world/crime-legal/five-year-old-boy-ice-minnesota/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #crimelegal #ice #immigration #us #donaldtrump #republicans
Victims of an attempted robbery case that happened at Tokyo's Haneda Airport on Friday had about ¥95 million in foreign currency stolen in a different incident in the past. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/01/japan/crime-legal/haneda-attempted-robbery-hong-kong-arrest/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #theft #hanedaairport #hongkong #japanesepolice
A U.S. judge delivered a blow to Minnesota's bid to force Immigration and Customs Enforcement to suspend its sweeping detention and deportation operation in the state. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/01/world/crime-legal/us-minnesota-immigration-sweeps/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #crimelegal #minneapolis #minnesota #us #immigration #donaldtrump
A federal judge has ordered the release of Adrian Conejo Arias and his 5-year-old son, Liam Conejo Ramos, whom immigration officers detained during a Minnesota raid. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/01/world/crime-legal/5-year-old-minnesota-ice-raid-release/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #crimelegal #ice #immigration #children #donaldtrump #us
The Chinese Embassy in Tokyo has advised Chinese citizens again to refrain from visiting Japan, following an incident in which a group comprising Chinese and Japanese nationals was robbed. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/31/japan/crime-legal/china-embassy-japan-robbery/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanchinarelations #china #tourism