After a U.S. congressional vote overwhelmingly passed to release Jeffrey Epstein-related files, Trump tried to claim credit while exposing his weakness and broken promises. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/11/19/world/us-congress-vote-on-jeffery-epstein/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #jeffreyepstein #ghislainemaxwell #us #donaldtrump #republicans #democrats #congress #sexcrimes #marjorietaylorgreene
U.S. President Donald Trump has signed legislation to compel the Department of Justice to release files on the late, disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/20/world/politics/trump-epstein-bill-singed/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #jeffreyepstein #us #donaldtrump #republicans #humantrafficking #sexcrimes
The White House was quietly lobbying senators to slow-walk a vote on releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files even as President Donald Trump publicly insisted he had nothing to hide. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/20/world/politics/trump-slow-walk-epstein-files/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #jeffreyepstein #humantrafficking #sexcrimes #us #donaldtrump #republicans
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
The constantly shifting nature of how human trafficking is conducted and whom it targets make it increasingly difficult for Japanese authorities to wipe it out. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/19/japan/crime-legal/human-trafficking/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #childabuse #thailandjapanrelations #thailand #sexcrimes #children #humantrafficking
The U.S. Congress has voted to force the release of Justice Department files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, an outcome President Donald Trump had fought for months before ending his opposition. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/19/world/politics/jeffrey-epstein-files-legislation/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #jeffreyepstein #ghislainemaxwell #us #donaldtrump #republicans #democrats #congress #sexcrimes
Donald Trump urged his fellow Republicans in Congress to vote for the release of files related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, reversing his earlier resistance to such a move. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/17/world/politics/trump-epstein-files-republicans-release/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #jeffreyepstein #humantrafficking #sexcrimes #us #donaldtrump #republicans
Trying to #FloodTheZone, #House #Republicans have now released 23k pages of documents from the estate of the #SexTrafficking rapist #JeffreyEpstein — shortly after Democrats released several emails that stated #Trump knew more about Epstein’s #SexCrimes than acknowledged.
They were published online ~2 hrs after House #Democrats released the emails including one from Epstein in which he wrote that Trump “spent hours at my house” with one of Epstein’s victims.
#law #rape
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11/12/us/epstein-files-trump/heres-the-latest?smid=url-share
Tokyo police have obtained an arrest warrant for the mother of a Thai girl on suspicion of violating the child welfare law by forcing the daughter to work at an erotic massage parlor, investigative sources have said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/12/japan/arrest-warrant-thai-mother/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #japanesepolice #thailand #childabuse #sexcrimes #thailandjapanrelations
The mother of a Thai girl believed to have been forced into sex work at a massage parlor in Tokyo has been detained in Taiwan. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/09/japan/crime-legal/mother-thai-girl-sex-work/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #thailand #childabuse #taiwan #sexcrimes #prostitution
“Black Box Diaries,” a 2024 documentary by Japanese journalist Shiori Ito that details her experience as a survivor of sexual assault, will premiere in Japan on Dec. 12. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/07/japan/society/shiori-ito-black-box-diaries/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #shioriito #documentaries #sexcrimes
Tokyo police have arrested the operator of a private-room massage parlor in Bunkyo Ward, after he allegedly forced a 12-year-old Thai girl to perform sexual services for customers. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/06/japan/crime-legal/thailand-girl-trafficking-arrest/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #tokyo #japanesepolice #thailand #sexcrimes #children #humantrafficking
The government’s plan to tighten background checks on prospective teachers for records of sexual offenses leaves major loopholes, as certain crimes such as stalking will remain outside the system’s scope. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/27/japan/crime-legal/dbs-flaws/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #teachers #childabuse #sexcrimes #fukuoka
Serial child sexual abuse cases in Australian day care centers have spurred a rush to close security gaps that let predators through the door. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/26/world/crime-legal/predators-australian-child-care/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #crimelegal #australia #children #sexcrimes #childabuse
U.S. military police will conduct a patrol in Naha in the early hours of Nov. 1, in an effort to prevent a recurrence of sexual assault cases involving U.S. military personnel in the prefecture, it has been learned. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/24/japan/crime-legal/us-military-police-patrol/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #us #naha #okinawa #usjapanrelations #sexcrimes
A Japanese court handed down an eight-year jail sentence Tuesday to the father of a woman who publicly accused him of rape, a rare case in the country where many victims stay anonymous. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/21/japan/crime-legal/toyama-father-rape-jail/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #sexcrimes #rape #childabuse
Okinawa Prefecture marked 30 years since a rally that drew in about 85,000 participants protesting the sexual assault of a girl by U.S. soldiers. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/21/japan/okinawa-anniversary-rally/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #okinawa #us #sexcrimes #children
A man in Fukuoka arrested for allegedly using a forged teaching license changed his surname repeatedly, apparently to avoid being identified on a national registry for teachers punished for child sexual abuse. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/17/japan/crime-legal/fukuoka-man-teacher-database/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #students #teachers #childabuse #sexcrimes #prostitution #fukuoka
A senior Japan Football Association official has been sentenced to an 18-month suspended jail term in France after viewing images of child sexual abuse during a plane journey, a court official said Tuesday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2025/10/08/soccer/japan-football-association-official-sentence-child-porn/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #soccer #childporn #sexcrimes #france #japanfootballassociation #soccer
A growing number of women are being drawn by international criminal networks into Albania from impoverished countries on the promise of lucrative sex work and a potential gateway to Europe. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/07/world/crime-legal/women-albania-sex-trade/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #crimelegal #sexcrimes #prostitution #pornography #albania #organizedcrime #humantrafficking
