Tokyo police have arrested a 35-year-old Chinese national on attempted murder charges following the stabbing of a woman in the Takadanobaba district of the capital’s Shinjuku Ward on Monday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/30/japan/crime-legal/japan-takadanobaba-stabbing/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #stabbings #takadanobaba #shinjuku #japanesepolice
Despite many clues left at the scene, police are still desperately searching for whoever is behind the brutal murder of a family of four in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward 25 years ago. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/30/japan/crime-legal/setagaya-murder-search/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #tokyo #setagaya #japanesepolice #stabbings
A woman was stabbed in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on Monday, with police searching for the suspect, according to investigative sources. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/29/japan/crime-legal/woman-stabbed-shinjuku/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #tokyo #shinjuku #stabbings
A 5-year-old boy has died after becoming trapped in an escalator at a ski resort in Otaru in Hokkaido. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/29/japan/hokkaido-ski-resort-boy-death/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #ski #hokkaido #otaru #japanesepolice
A 27-year-old man found dead in an apartment in Tokyo’s Nerima Ward on Monday is believed to have been in a relationship with a woman who died in an apparent murder-suicide three days earlier. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/26/japan/crime-legal/tokyo-murder-suicide/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #tokyo #japanesepolice #nishitokyo #suicide
Tokyo police searched locations linked to a luxury sauna facility operator on Thursday on suspicion of professional negligence resulting in the deaths of two customers earlier this month. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/26/japan/crime-legal/luxury-sauna-operator-raided/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #tokyo #akasaka #sauna
Hyogo police executives have been punished over gifts and other favors from a company commissioned to provide services to the police, it was learned Wednesday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/24/japan/crime-legal/hyogo-police-gifts-contractor/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #hyogo #japanesepolice
A Thai girl who had been forced to perform sexual services at a massage parlor in Tokyo is expected to soon be returned to her home country, where she is to live in a local support facility, according to media reports. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/24/japan/crime-legal/thai-girl-massage-return/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #thailand #taiwan #japanesepolice #sexcrimes #children #humantrafficking #childabuse #thailandjapanrelations #tokyo
The government has adopted a new cybersecurity strategy, stipulating a new system enabling the police, the Defense Ministry and the SDF to work together in neutralizing critical attacks. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/23/japan/crime-legal/new-cybersecurity-strategy-police-sdf/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #sdf #china #russia #northkorea #defense #defenseministry #cybersecurity #ai
The Hyogo Prefectural Police has sent papers on nine male officers to public prosecutors for alleged illegal gambling at online casinos. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/23/japan/crime-legal/police-online-casino-gambling/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #hyogo #gambling #casinos #japanesepolice
Japan to tighten rules on drone flights near key facilities https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/18/japan/japan-drone-rules-tightened/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #npa #drones #japanesepolice
More than half of cases of sexual deepfakes targeting those under 18 and reported to Japanese police were created by classmates of the victims, National Police Agency data have shown. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/18/japan/crime-legal/half-deepfake-classmates/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #npa #japanesepolice #ai #children #socialmedia #deepfakes #elementaryschools #juniorhighschools #highschools
Two people found dead after a fire at a sauna facility in Tokyo’s Akasaka district on Monday may have been trapped as a result of a broken door, according to investigative sources. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/17/japan/crime-legal/akasaka-sauna-deaths/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #sauna #tokyo #akasaka
Tokyo police arrested a 39-year-old man, his wife and his common-law wife over allegedly secretly filming his sexual intercourse with another woman in her 20s and posting the footage on a video-sharing site. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/16/japan/crime-legal/japan-poligamy-sex-video-arrests/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #sexcrime
Two customers died after a fire broke out at a sauna facility in the Akasaka district of Tokyo on Monday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/16/japan/japan-sauna-fire-deaths/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #sauna #firefighters #japanesepolice
A 37-year-old man was arrested in the city of Fukuoka on suspicion of stabbing his father, who has been hospitalized, on Monday night. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/16/japan/crime-legal/fukuoka-son-arrest-stabbing/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #fukuoka #stabbings
Tokyo police rearrested a 37-year-old man on fresh charges of dangerous driving resulting in death and a hit-and-run in the capital's Adachi Ward last month. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/15/japan/crime-legal/hit-and-run-adachi-ward-rearrest/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #driving #theft #japanesepolice
A 30-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly stabbing a woman in her 20s and a man in his 40s at a commercial facility in the city of Fukuoka on Sunday, according to the Fukuoka Prefectural Police. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/15/japan/crime-legal/man-arrest-fukuoka-stabbing/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #fukuoka #hkt48 #stabbings
More Japanese municipalities now have ordinances in place for measures to support victims of crime in their jurisdiction. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/12/japan/crime-legal/municipalities-crime-victims-support/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #surveys #localgovernment #japanesepolice #nationalpoliceagency
Taiwanese police plan to send back to Thailand the mother of a Thai girl who was forced to engage in illegal work at a massage parlor in Tokyo. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/12/japan/crime-legal/tokyo-sex-work-thai-girl-mother/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #thailand #taiwan #children #sexcrimes