An infant's severed head, arms and legs were found in the refrigerator of an out-call service provider for sex workers in Tokyo's Sumida Ward on Saturday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/07/japan/crime-legal/infant-head-found-in-fridge/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #tokyo #children
Japanese police have arrested four men suspected of masterminding a series of robberies in the Tokyo metropolitan area as part of an anonymous and transient criminal group that operated via social media. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/05/japan/crime-legal/suspected-masterminds-robberies-arrested/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #theft #gangs
A 17-year-old high school student in Osaka has been arrested for allegedly carrying out a cyberattack on the operator of an internet cafe chain with a program he created using ChatGPT. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/04/japan/crime-legal/police-arrest-cyberattack-net-cafe/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #cybersecurity #hacking #internet #cafes #osaka #ai
Police are currently searching for a man after he allegedly brandished a large knife at a hotel in the Tokyo DisneySea theme park on Monday evening. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/02/japan/crime-legal/japan-disney-resort-knife-man-flee/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #disneysea #themeparks
Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Department has added a new feature to its Digi Police crime prevention app that blocks incoming calls from international numbers and those believed to have been used for special fraud. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/01/japan/tokyo-police-app-fraud-block/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #japanesepolice #mpd #apps #fraud
Takashi Tachibana, leader of the NHK Party, has been indicted by the Kobe District Public Prosecutors Office for allegedly defaming a former Hyogo prefectural assembly member who apparently committed suicide. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/28/japan/crime-legal/tachibana-indictment-defamation/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #takashitachibana #motohikosaito #hyogo #japanesepolice #suicide #nhkparty
The National Police Agency has determined that improper DNA analyses conducted by a former member of the Saga Prefectural Police have had no adverse impact on investigations. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/27/japan/crime-legal/police-dna-saga-report/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #saga #sagaprefecturalpolice #japanesepolice #npa
Tokyo police have arrested a 37-year-old man suspected of driving a stolen car he then used to plow through an area in Tokyo’s Adachi Ward on Monday, killing one person and injuring 10 others in a chaotic hit-and-run. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/25/japan/crime-legal/japan-hit-and-run-arrest/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #tokyo #japanesepolice #trafficaccidents #adachiward
Thai police have said they have obtained an arrest warrant for a mother who allegedly left a 12-year-old girl working illegally at a massage parlor in Tokyo on charges of human trafficking. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/25/japan/crime-legal/thai-police-trafficking-japan/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #humantrafficking #japanesepolice #prostitution
A pedestrian in his 80s has died after an apparent hit-and-run in Tokyo that has also injured 10 others. Police have detained the driver. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/24/japan/crime-legal/tokyo-car-accident/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #tokyo #japanesepolice #trafficaccidents
Tokyo police arrested a 43-year-old Ground Self-Defense Force member Saturday on suspicion of attempting to stab a woman to death earlier this month. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/22/japan/crime-legal/gsdf-akasaka-woman-stabbing-suspect/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #gsdf #stabbings #tokyo #akasaka #minatoward #japanesepolice
Tokyo police arrested two Japanese men on suspicion of smuggling gold into Japan from South Korea in a scheme that allegedly moved around 1 ton of gold. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/21/japan/crime-legal/gold-bar-smuggling/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #southkorea #smuggling
Okinawa Prefectural Police have sent papers on a U.S. Navy member in his 20s to prosecutors over an alleged nonconsensual indecent act against a Japanese minor. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/19/japan/crime-legal/us-navy-sex-crime-okinawa/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #okinawa #usbases #japanesepolice #sexcrimes
A woman in her 70s thought to have been killed by a bear in Akita Prefecture actually died of hypothermia, authorities say. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/19/japan/crime-legal/akita-kazuno-autopsy-bear/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #akita #kazuno #bears #death #japanesepolice
Police in Tokyo are hunting for a male suspect after receiving a report Sunday morning that a woman was stabbed in the capital’s Minato Ward. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/16/japan/crime-legal/akasaka-woman-stabbing/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #tokyo #akasaka #japanesepolice #stabbings
Ohkawara Kakohki, once falsely accused of illegal exports, is seeking three investigators' personal liabilities for part of the damages awarded to the machinery-maker. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/16/japan/crime-legal/ohkawara-kakohki-resident-audit-request/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #ohkawarakakohki #japanesecourts #japanesepolice #tokyo
With few people typically owning guns in Japan, special teams of police officers have been dispatched with rifles for the first time ever to locations that have seen rising numbers of bear incidents. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/13/japan/explainer/who-culls-bears-japan/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #explainer #animals #selfdefenseforces #japanesepolice
Police in Kyoto have arrested a former officer and a woman on suspicion of defrauding an elderly dementia patient. The former officer is a board member of a group that works with police to assist dementia patients. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/13/japan/crime-legal/japan-police-arrested-elderly-fraud/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #dementia #fraud #elderly
Determined to stay strong for their only son after his wife of four years was murdered at their home in broad daylight, Satoru Takaba vowed to “never yield to the killer.” https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/13/japan/crime-legal/nagoya-killing-husband/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #nagoya #aichi
A 43-year-old inspector at Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Department was arrested Wednesday for allegedly leaking investigative information to a group believed to have illegally brokered women it scouted on the street. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/13/japan/crime-legal/police-officer-arrest-scout-leak/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #hostessbars #apps