The Nara District Court is set to rule on Tetsuya Yamagami, the man standing trial for the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, bringing the high-profile case to an end. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/20/japan/crime-legal/japan-yamagami-trial-ruling-preview/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #tetsuyayamagami #shinzoabe #japanesecourts #nara #guns
Police have arrested 30-year-old Kabuki actor Nakamura Tsurumatsu on suspicion of breaking a Tokyo restaurant's door by kicking it on Sunday, people familiar with the matter said Monday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/20/japan/crime-legal/kabuki-actor-arrest/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #nakamuratsurumatsu #japanesepolice #kabuki
A court has given a man a suspended sentence for transporting a then-high school student to Myanmar last year to have him engage in fraud despite knowing that the boy had been kidnapped. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/20/japan/crime-legal/student-myanmar-sentence-court/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #miyagi #japanesecourts #myanmar #highschools #fraud #kidnappings
Fraudsters are increasingly impersonating company presidents and other senior executives to issue fake business instructions via email in Japan, the National Police Agency warns. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/19/japan/crime-legal/japan-ceo-emails-scams/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #fraud #japanesepolice #npa
Vietnamese who are in Japan under its Technical Intern Training Program are now getting caught in the country’s illegal worker crackdown. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/19/japan/crime-legal/japan-foreign-worker-crackdown/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #foreignworkers #vietnamjapanrelations #sanaetakaichi
The number of firearms in Australia reached an all-time high of more than 4 million in 2025. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/18/asia-pacific/crime-legal/australian-firearms-hit-a-record-high/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #crimelegal #bondibeach #australia #guns #firearms
The burned body of a woman was found in an apartment in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, following a fire early Saturday, with authorities saying the woman had been strangled before the residence was set on fire. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/18/japan/crime-legal/aichi-toyota-fire-body/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #aichi #toyota #arson
The burned body of a woman was found in an apartment in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, following a fire early Saturday, with authorities saying the woman had been strangled before the residence was set on fire. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/18/japan/crime-legal/aichi-toyota-fire-body-found/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #aichi #toyota #arson
The FBI is asking agents across the U.S. to travel to Minneapolis for temporary duty, according to people familiar with the situation. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/18/world/crime-legal/fbi-agents-voluntarily-travel-minneapolis/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #crimelegal #minneapolis #minnesota #ice #fbi #immigration #us #uspolice #police #donaldtrump
U.S. immigration agents now remind many Americans of the Gestapo — and not just the left-wing activists who have taken to the streets to protest violent raids commanded by President Donald Trump. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/18/world/crime-legal/americans-reject-immigration-police/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #crimelegal #us #uspolice #police #immigration #ice #donaldtrump #surveys
Minneapolis residents are arranging security patrols at schools to watch for immigration agents amid the latest operation of U.S. President Donald Trump's mass deportation program. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/18/world/crime-legal/minneapolis-schools-ice-arrests/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #crimelegal #minneapolis #minnesota #donaldtrump #ice #us #immigration #schools #education
A U.S. judge has restricted federal agents from interfering with peaceful protesters in Minnesota, after President Donald Trump said there was no immediate need to invoke the Insurrection Act over the protests. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/17/world/crime-legal/us-judge-restricts-ice-minnesota/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #crimelegal #ice #immigration #minnesota #minneapolis #us #uspolice #donaldtrump
Newly released transcripts of emergency calls and dispatch records have detailed the chaotic and dangerous scene that unfolded after a U.S. immigration officer shot Renee Good in Minneapolis. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/17/world/crime-legal/rene-good-shooting-transcripts/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #crimelegal #us #minnesota #minneapolis #donaldtrump #immigration #police #ice
Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has been sentenced to five years in jail for charges including resisting arrest, marking the ex-leader’s first sentence in a slew of pending cases. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/16/asia-pacific/crime-legal/south-korea-yoon-jail-ruling/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #crimelegal #southkorea #yoonsukyeol
Hundreds of people have fled a suspected Cambodian cyberfraud center, after the country's most wanted alleged scam kingpin was arrested and deported to China. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/16/asia-pacific/crime-legal/cambodia-fradsters-scam-center/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #crimelegal #cambodia #southeastasia
The Osaka District Court on Friday dismissed a request from three death-row inmates for the state to ban executions by hanging. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/16/japan/crime-legal/osaka-court-hanging-executions/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #osaka #japanesecourts #deathpenalty
An official died and another was injured after a resident who was subject to a court-ordered eviction stabbed them at an apartment in Tokyo’s Suginami Ward, Tokyo police said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/16/japan/crime-legal/court-official-conducting-eviction-stabbed/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesecourts #realestate #tokyo #suginami #stabbings #japanesepolice
A 38-year-old Thai woman residing in Japan was arrested Thursday for allegedly acting as a broker in a case involving a young Thai girl who was forced to perform sexual services for money at a massage parlor in Tokyo. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/15/japan/crime-legal/thai-girl-broker/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #thailand #japanesepolice #sexcrimes #children #humantrafficking #childabuse #thailandjapanrelations #tokyo
A crane collapsed in Thailand on Thursday, crushing two vehicles and killing two people, police said, a day after a crane accident in the northeast caused the deaths of 32 train passengers. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/15/asia-pacific/crime-legal/fatal-crane-failures-thai-firm/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #crimelegal #thailand #constructionindustry
Cambodia’s arrest of alleged scam center kingpin Chen Zhi and his extradition to China was “not the end” of the Southeast Asian nation’s battle to stamp out transborder crimes, its foreign minister said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/14/asia-pacific/crime-legal/cambodia-crackdown-scam-mastermind/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #crimelegal #myanmar #cambodia #forcedlabor #fraud #organizedcrime