crime (Page 15)

Japanese police say former prime minister shot with pistol, weapon may have been made by shooter

Private ownership of pistols is completely prohibited in Japan.

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AirTag planted on Aichi Prefectural Police car, by someone who doesn’t understand cars well

Probably doesn’t understand police too well either.

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Gifu man arrested for entering other person’s home and hanging women’s underwear to dry

It seems to be the opposite of underwear theft, and yet it’s still very creepy.

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Tokyo man arrested for putting brother’s skull out for recycling collection

Suspect claims he thought it was fake.

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Machine-learning A.I. used to try to skirt Japanese censorship laws.

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Charges dropped against elderly Japanese man for nailing Putin voodoo doll to sacred shrine tree

Many hope he finds a different way to express his feelings about the Russian president, though.

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Tokyo Police apprehend the “Lego Kid” and accomplices

Train photography may have been the motive for alleged Legomaniacs.

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Aichi woman arrested for mixing human excrement into school lunch

Whatever happened to just spitting?!

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Trial ends for Shizuoka man who stole school equipment to recreate Love Live! classroom at home

Aqours would not approve.

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Japanese senior citizen arrested for hammering voodoo dolls of Putin to Shinto shrine trees

”Just for that?” asks 70-something resident when presented with charges.

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Three Japanese man in their 80s arrested on suspicion of being a ring of thieves

Two brothers and their friend accused of robbing elderly woman who was still a lot younger than them.

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Japan’s first three-title unified boxing champion’s house burglarized during title match

Champion dealt a sucker punch by crime.

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Yakuza bosses struggling to upgrade phones from 3G

Crime lords getting shaken down by telecom giants.

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Japanese voodoo dolls with foreign politician photo keep getting nailed to town’s shrine trees

”Praying for his death” reads wara ningyo note.

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Security guard arrested in Shizuoka for abandoning 13 liters of urine at pachinko parlor

Going to the toilet was too much as hassle for the suspect, but hauling it across town…

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Japanese town recovers 43 million yen in COVID money mistakenly sent to one man who gambled it away

Probably the most unexpected turnaround in an already long string of unexpected turnarounds.

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Japanese teen calls cops on man she thinks is holding a knife, turns out he just has old tech

Suspect had no intent to kill or upgrade to the latest electronics.

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Man who gambled entire Japanese town’s COVID relief money arrested

The latest in a long line of slip-ups.

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1,600 empty seats at major Japanese gymnastics competition reserved by single unpaying person

A big mistake? Or did someone have it out for Pommel Horse?

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High school girl arrested for stalking Johnny’s 7 MEN Samurai member

Luckily no one was harmed in the tense encounter.

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