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
A California jury says Uber is not liable for the sexual assault of a woman who said she was attacked by her driver on a ride she ordered through the app. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/10/01/uber-us-trial-driver-sexual-assault/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #uber #us #sexcrimes
A U.S. Air Force serviceman has appealed to the Supreme Court against a high court ruling upholding a five-year sentence for abducting and sexually assaulting a young girl in Okinawa Prefecture. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/12/japan/crime-legal/okinawa-assault-appeal/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #okinawa #supremecourt #japanesecourts #sexcrimes
Police have served third arrest warrants on two elementary school teachers linked to an online chat group sharing secretly taken images and videos of girls. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/12/japan/crime-legal/third-arrest-girls-images/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #nagoya #children #elementaryschools #childporn #sexcrimes #yokohama
A Japanese high court has upheld a five-year prison sentence for a U.S. airman over the kidnap and sexual assault of a girl under the age of consent in Okinawa Prefecture. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/10/japan/okinawa-airman-sexual-assault/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #okinawa #usmilitary #sexcrimes
The Pentagon’s inspector general has begun a review of how U.S. military personnel in Japan complied with policies on preventing and addressing violent crimes after reports of sexual assaults in the country. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/05/japan/pentagon-review-crime-japan/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #us #usjapanrelations #japanesecourts #sexcrimes #okinawa
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