law

Japanese town suing resident for being a jerk

How big of a jerk do you need to be before your own town sues you?

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Shizuoka senior charged with firearms violation after giving toy guns to the police

No good deed goes unpunished.

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As shorts are increasingly allowed in the Japanese workplace, could hairy legs be harassment?

It’s a hairy situation to say the least.

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Toy guns won from crane games all over Japan could be used as real guns, warn police

Good thing those machines are really hard to win at.

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Japan to make foreign driver’s license conversions more difficult, exclude tourists from eligibility

Tests to become more like regular Japanese license exams, which is to say, crazy hard.

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Kuwana City officially outlaws making staff get down on all fours to apologize

But is a strongly worded letter enough?

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Police to ticket cyclists riding on sidewalks, which amounts to almost all cyclists in Japan

I hope they have a lot of paper.

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Motorized kick scooter violations nearly double the number of motorized kick scooters in Japan

Everyone seems to be scooting themselves right into trouble.

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Osaka man arrested for selling colorized version of the original Godzilla from 1954

Color me surprised!

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Hokkaido police refuse to acknowledge theft that really seems like a theft

Unfortunately, not technically being a theft won’t bring the victim’s car back.

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“Bumping men” are a uniquely Japanese class of criminals that are hard to deal with

This peculiar Japanese crime leaves its victims wondering what to do.

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Fukuoka woman arrested for drunk bicycle riding

It’s a more serious crime than you may think.

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Saitama women arrested for dueling

They demanded satisfaction but got busted instead.

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Four yakuza members arrested for having office too close to library

This time, the yakuza have gone too far… in the direction of a library.

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Nara man arrested for burying mother in his cemetery plot by himself

You don’t have to abandon a body to legally abandon it.

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Japanese Prime Minister once criticized deploying military to fight Godzilla

There are tricky legal hurdles when fighting kaiju.

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Australian sentenced to prison, judges unconvinced he said “Go to a door” not “This is a robbery”

The “soramimi defense” fails to hold up in court.

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Posthumous divorce on the rise in Japan as a way to distance oneself from in-laws

Tell your late spouse’s family how you really feel. Tell them with a divorce.

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Gyoza no Ohsho president’s murder trial mulling not letting average citizens become judges

Yes, that’s a thing they do in Japan.

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Kanagawa woman arrested for calling police 1,200 times in 8 days, saying “Merry Christmas, Die!”

I think she’s confusing Christmas with Easter.

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