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
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