The U.S. Justice Department has released a transcript of an interview with Ghislaine Maxwell, the accomplice of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, where she said Donald Trump was "never inappropriate with anybody." https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/23/world/politics/us-ghislaine-maxwell-transcripts/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #us#ghislainemaxwell #jeffreyepstein #donaldtrump #sexcrimes
Tokyo police are sounding the alarm about online message boards that could be serving as hubs for people to coordinate actual crimes involving sexual violence. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/22/japan/crime-legal/police-warn-of-social-media-posts-soliciting-rapists/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #socialmedia #rape #sexcrimes
J-pop artist Kenshin Kamimura has been found guilty of indecent assault by a Hong Kong court after he harassed a woman who worked as his interpreter at a restaurant earlier this year. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/14/japan/crime-legal/star-assault-hong-kong/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #kenshinkamimura #hongkong #jpop #idols #sexcrimes
Ghislaine Maxwell has been transferred to a minimum-security facility in Texas to continue serving her 20-year sentence for helping the late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse underage girls. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/02/world/crime-legal/ghislaine-maxwell-prison-move/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #crimelegal#ghislainemaxwell #us #donaldtrump #jeffreyepstein #sexcrimes
Compliance violations and misconduct in Japan’s entertainment industry have long been overlooked, but a recent wave of scandals involving TV personalities may present an opportunity for lasting change. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/30/japan/media/changes-in-tv-industry/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #media #japanesetv #tokio #taichikokubun #ntv #celebrities #fujitv #japanesetv #masahironakai #sexualharassment #corporategovernance #sexcrimes #johnnykitagawa
Sexually exploitative images of Chinese women were shared in encrypted Telegram chat groups with hundreds of thousands of users, Chinese media reported, triggering widespread outrage online. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/29/asia-pacific/crime-legal/china-telegram-exploitative-women-images/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #crimelegal #china #sexcrimes #socialmedia #telegram #privacy #women039sissues
Donald Trump's super powers as a public figure have long included the ability to redirect, evade and deny, but the U.S. leader is struggling to get people to move on from the Epstein case. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/26/world/politics/trump-epstein-distraction-methods/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #donaldtrump #us #jeffreyepstein #sexcrimes #republicans #democrats
The U.S. Justice Department's deputy chief conducted a second day of questioning Friday with Ghislaine Maxwell, the imprisoned accomplice of late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/26/world/crime-legal/us-epstein-maxwell-questioned/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #crimelegal #us #donaldtrump #us#ghislainemaxwell #jeffreyepstein #sexcrimes
Even as an uproar over files relating to Jeffrey Epstein engulfs President Donald Trump, the U.S. Supreme Court is due to decide whether to hear a bid by an associate of the late financier. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/25/world/crime-legal/ghislaine-maxwell-case-supreme-court/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #crimelegal #us #ussupremecourt #donaldtrump#ghislainemaxwell #sexcrimes #jeffreyepstein
U.S. President Donald Trump has sued the Wall Street Journal and its owners including Rupert Murdoch, seeking at least $10 billion in damages over the newspaper's report of Trump's links to Jeffrey Epstein. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/19/world/politics/trump-epstein-lawsuit-wall-street-journal/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #jeffreyepstein #donaldtrump #us #sexcrimes
A group chat that teachers allegedly used to share illicit images of elementary school girls has reignited the question: Is Japan facing a systemic failure to protect children from predatory educators? https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/16/japan/crime-legal/teachers-students-sexual-abuse/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #schools #students #children #sexcrimes #mext #teachers #sexualharassment #childporn
The Osaka Prefectural Police department is cracking down on a crime ring for allegedly forcing about 130 underage girls into prostitution around the country. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/12/japan/crime-legal/osaka-police-underage-prostitution-crack-down/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #osaka #sexcrimes #prostitution #gangs
A senior officer of the U.S. Marine Corps on Thursday apologized to Okinawa Prefecture over a recent conviction of a Marine for sexually assaulting a woman in the prefecture. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/04/japan/crime-legal/us-military-apologizes-over-okinawa-sexual-assault/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #usmilitary#usbases #okinawa #sexcrimes #japanesecourts
Australia plans new measures to strip funding from child care centers that fall short of safety norms after a Melbourne man was charged with more than 70 offenses over child sex abuse. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/02/asia-pacific/crime-legal/australia-childcare-laws-worker-sex-offenses/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #crimelegal #australia #sexcrimes #childabuse
Amid heightened concerns over child safety in Japan, the government is expanding the scope of its planned background check system designed to protect children from sexual offenders. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/01/japan/crime-legal/japan-version-dbs/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #sexcrimes #teachers #schools #children #childabuse
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
Baseball star Wander Franco was given a two-year suspended sentence by a court in the Dominican Republic on Thursday after being found guilty of sexually abusing a teenage girl. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2025/06/27/baseball/wander-franco-found-guilty/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #baseball #wanderfranco#tampabayrays #sexcrimes
Parents of schoolchildren were outraged after the latest news that teachers were allegedly taking indecent images of young girls at their schools and sharing them in an online group chat of about 10 teachers. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/27/japan/crime-legal/public-outrage-teachers-upskirt/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #nagoya #yokohama #children #schools #sexcrimes #childporn #deepfakes
The Children and Families Agency held the first meeting aimed at introducing a system to check whether people holding or seeking jobs that involve contact with children have records of sex crimes. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/26/japan/politics/sex-crime-check-panel/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #children #sexcrimes #jobs
Naha District Court on Tuesday sentenced a 22-year-old U.S. Marine to seven years in prison for nonconsensual sexual intercourse resulting in injury to a woman in Okinawa Prefecture in May last year. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/24/japan/crime-legal/sexual-assault-okinawa-seven-years/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #okinawa #sexcrimes #japanesecourts