Smelly attempt at terrorism only seems to have galvanized the need for women-exclusive sections on trains.
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Becomes the first city in Japan to specifically target businesses that boast about their customer services being performed by high school girls.
Bears say only we can prevent forest fires, but they’ll help out when preventing robberies.
Not satisfied with simply robbing a victim of her money, some fraudsters decide to add insult to injury.
Possibly because he felt disciplining an undesirable employee would have been too awkward, one supervisor turned to poison instead.
High Court hands down ruling in three-year legal dispute stemming from different attitudes between hard-core idol singer fans.
Tokyo police say teen stole over 100 boxes of razors, and not so that he’d be freshly shaven for his beloved idol singers.
New tool allows Kyoto police to be at the scene of the crime before the crime even occurs.
Childhood is notoriously short in education-and-work-come-first Japan, but these tykes’ throwback idea of fun got them out of trouble with the law.
Senior police official quoted as saying, “I have never heard of this behavior, but it’s sick.”
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