Police in Saitama Prefecture have found tens of millions of yen in cash at the home of the wife of the now-defunct Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult's founder Chizuo Matsumoto, who went by the name Shoko Asahara. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/16/japan/crime-legal/aum-shinrikyo-founder-wife/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #aumshinrikyo #shokoasahara #saitama #japanesepolice #tokyosaringasattack
From demonstrating how police create suspect sketches based off of witness testimony to showing how 110 calls are handled, the Metropolitan Police Department hopes its recruitment event will draw in more applicants. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/14/japan/tokyo-police-recruitment-event/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #japanesepolice #jobs #students
Police arrested a man on Saturday, alleging he murdered his former girlfriend, whose body was found at his house in the city of Kawasaki in late April. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/12/japan/kawasaki-murder-arrest/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #japanesepolice #kawasaki #kanagawa #stalking
A Yokohama court has sentenced two men to jail over their roles in a high-profile case involving the killing of a 46-year-old man whose body was found in a suitcase dumped in the Tama River. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/11/japan/crime-legal/suitcase-murder-case-ruling/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #tamariver #tokyo #suitcases
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested a 34-year-old male Jiji Press employee on suspicion of theft, sources said Thursday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/10/japan/crime-legal/jiji-employee-theft/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #theft #media #jijipress #tokyo
Japan’s National Police Agency on Thursday revealed a draft of new, tougher traffic rules for foreign nationals who wish to convert their drivers license into Japanese ones. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/10/japan/crime-legal/npa-drivers-license-conversion/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #expats #tourism #cars #driving
Police in Japan have nearly doubled their personnel who handle cases of lone wolves since former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot dead by one in July 2022. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/10/japan/crime-legal/japanese-police-lone-offender-countermeasures/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #npa #mpd #shinzoabe #2025upperhouseelection
Inappropriate interrogation practices by police and prosecutors continue to be reported in Japan, with cases involving verbal abuse and the use of leading or coercive methods. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/10/japan/crime-legal/inappropriate-interrogation/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #japanesecourts #falseconvictions
A trial challenging Japan's lengthy and grueling detention of criminal suspects has opened in Tokyo, with plaintiffs decrying "subhuman" treatment they say ignores the presumption of innocence. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/10/japan/crime-legal/japan-hostage-justice-trial/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #justiceministry #japanesecourts #falseconvictions #japanesepolice
Many stab wounds and scratches have been found on the bodies of two women who were killed at a girls bar in Shizuoka Prefecture on Sunday, investigative sources have disclosed. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/08/japan/crime-legal/girls-bar-stab-wounds/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #shizuoka #stabbings #bars
Scams involving police impersonation are on the rise in Japan, with losses attributed to such cases exceeding ¥30 billion in just the first five months of this year. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/08/japan/crime-legal/fake-police-fraud-scam/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #fraud
A customer allegedly stabbed to death two women working at a girls bar in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, in the early hours of Sunday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/07/japan/crime-legal/girls-bar-workers-stabbed-to-death/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #shizuoka #japanesepolice #stabbings #bars
Two U.S. servicemen have been arrested in Okinawa Prefecture for allegedly assaulting Japanese nationals. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/07/japan/crime-legal/two-us-servicemen-in-okinawa-arrested/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #okinawa#usbases
A man on Japan's national wanted list in relation to the death of his father and the attempted murder of his mother at their luxury condominium in Shiga Prefecture earlier this year has been found dead. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/03/japan/crime-legal/shiga-son-dead/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #shiga #yamanashi #japanesepolice
The suspect of a fatal stabbing at a Tokyo law firm has admitted to holding a grudge against the victim, who was his coworker. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/02/japan/crime-legal/ikebukuro-stabbing-arrest/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #ikebukuro #stabbings #japanesepolice #tokyo
Police have arrested a man on suspicion of stabbing an employee at the Sunshine City shopping complex on Tuesday morning. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/01/japan/crime-legal/japan-ikebukuro-stabbing/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #stabbings #ikebukuro #japanesepolice
Police arrested a 20-year-old man on suspicion of murdering a 19-year-old woman, whose body was found in her apartment in the city of Toyoda, Aichi Prefecture. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/30/japan/crime-legal/japan-fatal-stabbing-arrest/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #stabbings #aichi #japanesepolice
Police arrested the owner of a Kabukicho girls bar on the day a newly revised law on sex-related businesses went into effect. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/29/japan/crime-legal/kabukicho-girls-bar-owner-arrested/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #kabukicho #tokyo #bars
Tokyo police have arrested a 50-year-old caretaker for alleged sexual abuse of a woman with serious dementia at a group home for the elderly in Tokyo's Taito Ward. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/29/japan/crime-legal/dementia-care-worker-arrested-over-obscenity/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #sexcrimes #dementia #elderly
The police departments in over 30 of Japan's 47 prefectures missed their hiring targets from fiscal 2021 to fiscal 2023, according to sources. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/29/japan/japan-police-miss-hiring-targets/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #japanesepolice #jobs