Osaka Prefectural Police have arrested a 50-year-old man in Osaka Prefecture on Saturday following the deaths of a couple in an apartment. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/03/01/japan/crime-legal/osaka-couple-killed/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #osaka
Bill Clinton told lawmakers that he "saw nothing that gave me pause" when he spent time with Jeffrey Epstein, as the former president gave closed-door testimony about his relationship with the late sex offender. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/28/world/crime-legal/bill-clinton-epstein/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #crimelegal #billclinton #jeffreyepstein #sexcrimes #us #congress
Police in Tokyo have arrested a woman after she allegedly took the TOEIC English proficiency test while posing as another person. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/27/japan/crime-legal/toeic-proxy-test-taking-arrest/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #toeic #english
A petition seeking to stop the operation of the No. 3 reactor of Shikoku Electric Power’s Ikata nuclear power plant in Ehime Prefecture has been dismissed by a court. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/27/japan/crime-legal/court-rejection-ikata/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #earthquakes #yamaguchi #japanesecourts #nuclearenergy #ikata #kumamoto #mountains
Japanese police arrested a man in his 90s Thursday for allegedly defacing a sign at a prosecutor's office in the city of Osaka. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/27/japan/crime-legal/elderly-osaka-graffiti-arrest/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #osaka #japanesepolice #elderly
The number of elementary school children in Japan who became victims of sex crimes and other offenses through social media totaled 167 in 2025, the highest level in the past 10 years for which data is available. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/26/japan/crime-legal/child-victims-social-media-high/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #sexcrimes #children #childabuse #childporn #japanesepolice
Police in Japan took action against 1,322 people under the age of 20 last year for crimes linked to "tokuryū" anonymous and transient criminal groups, the National Police Agency said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/26/japan/crime-legal/npa-juvenile-crimes/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #npa #japanesepolice #fraud #drugs #gambling #casinos #socialmedia
Public prosecutors on Thursday demanded the death penalty for a 43-year-old man charged with killing three members of a family at their house in Saitama Prefecture in December 2022. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/26/japan/crime-legal/triple-murder-death-penalty-sought/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesecourts #saitama #deathpenalty
Pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai's fraud conviction and prison sentence were overturned by a Hong Kong court on Thursday, in a surprise legal decision soon after Lai was jailed on a separate national security charge. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/26/asia-pacific/crime-legal/hong-kong-jimmy-lai-fraud-conviction/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #crimelegal #hongkong #china #jimmylai #appledaily
Cambodian authorities say a crackdown on online scam compounds has cut activity in half since the start of this year. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/26/asia-pacific/crime-legal/cambodia-crackdown-online-scam/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #crimelegal #cambodia #fraud #organizedcrime #southeastasia
In the first such case in recent history, Japan’s top court granted a retrial Tuesday for a deceased man who had been serving a life sentence for committing a murder in Shiga Prefecture in 1984. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/25/japan/crime-legal/retrial-murder-deceased-defendant/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesecourts #shiga #supremecourt #japanesepolice #falseconvictions
Prosecutors sought an indefinite prison term for a 36-year-old unemployed man for murdering a volunteer probation officer in Otsu, Shiga Prefecture, during his probation in May 2024. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/25/japan/crime-legal/otsu-probation-murder-trial/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesecourts #shiga #probation #otsu
Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte personally drew up “death lists” and boasted about murders committed during his “war on drugs,” an International Criminal Court prosecutor alleges. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/25/asia-pacific/crime-legal/duterte-death-lists-icc-prosecutor/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #crimelegal #philippines #rodrigoduterte #icc
Tokyo police arrested four men on Monday, including the producer of the seven-female-member artist group XG, on suspicion of drug possession, investigative sources said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/23/japan/crime-legal/xg-producer-arrested/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #drugs #xg
A federal immigration agent shot and killed a U.S. citizen in Texas in March 2025, months before the shooting deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minnesota. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/22/world/crime-legal/dhs-agent-killed-us-citizen/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #crimelegal #us #immigration #donaldtrump #texas #murder
Charles Schwab moved about $27.7 million in payments for Jeffrey Epstein days before his 2019 arrest, files released by the U.S. Department of Justice show. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/21/world/crime-legal/epstein-charles-schwab-investments/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #crimelegal #jeffreyepstein #sexcrimes #childabuse #charlesschwab #morocco
Seven officers of the Kanagawa Prefectural Police were referred to prosecutors on Friday for allegedly falsifying traffic violation tickets and related investigation reports. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/20/japan/crime-legal/kanagawa-police-prosecutors/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #kanagawa
A 61-year-old man has been arrested in Fukuoka after he allegedly stabbed three people — who he reportedly said he did not know — in a library in the city. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/20/japan/crime-legal/fukuoka-library-stabbings/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #fukuoka #stabbings
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested three Brazilian nationals in a luxury Toyota car theft case. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/20/japan/crime-legal/brazilians-arrest-toyota-car-theft/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #toyota #theft #chiba #ibaraki #brazil
Japanese police will question a man in his 40s on suspicion of using a forged ID card to trespass into the U.S. Navy's Yokosuka base in Kanagawa Prefecture. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/19/japan/crime-legal/man-enter-yokosuka-fake-id/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #usjapanrelations #japanesepolice