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Shoplifting prevention guard arrested for shoplifting boot from store he was guarding

• Master Blaster
  21 hours ago
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Those boots weren’t made for walking away with.

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • crime • Manbiki G-Men • security guard • shoplifting • theft • weird)

Fishing information website for Susaki, Japan, hit by data leak, all 3 users affected

• Master Blaster
  Oct 26, 2026

Personal information for everyone posting to the site over the past year compromised.

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• Internet, Japan
• (crazy • crime • cyber security • data leak • fishing • hacking • kochi • Susaki • websites)

93-year-old Japanese grannie helps set trap for scam artist half her age

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 25, 2026

This woman was the target of a criminal scheme, but she definitely wasn’t going the be the victim of it.

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• Japan
• (awesome • COK • crime • fraud • grannies • scam • scam artists • seniors)

Trial of terminally ill cancer patient who found 22 million yen on the street and kept it ends

• Master Blaster
  Oct 22, 2026

Defendant described money as a “gift from God.”

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• Japan
• (cancer • COK • crime • Sendai • theft • trial • weird)

Police in Japan likely to gain authority to hack phones to check messaging apps

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 21, 2026

Regulations would be similar to those for phone taps.

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• Japan
• (COK • crime • fraud • fraudsters • police • society • tokuryu)

Man in Suzuka offered 9 million yen for his semen, conned out of 38 million yen

• Master Blaster
  Oct 18, 2026

It was just too good to be true.

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• Japan
• (crazy • crime • fraud • Mie • senior citizens • special fraud • Suzuka • tokushu sagi • weird)

American man runs out of money in Japan, gets arrested for overstaying tourist visa

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 14, 2026

Says he wants to go home, but the police are holding onto him for now.

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• Japan
• (arrest • COK • crime • Japan travel • society • travel • visa • visa overstay)

Osaka man arrested for running little pet shop of horrors with dangerous crocodile

• Master Blaster
  Oct 6, 2026

Your one-stop shop for abused deadly animals.

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• Japan
• (animal welfare • animals • business • crime • Osaka • pet shop • pet store • saltwater crocodile • snapping turtles)

“We’d heard Japan’s sentences are light” say foreign travelers arrested for Tokyo robberies

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 1, 2026

Pair of thieves broke into house in Tokyo one day after arriving in Japan.

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• Japan
• (burglary • COK • crime • Nakano Broadway • rearrest • robbery • saitaiho • theft • watches • wristwatches)

Robbers in Japan steal drunk man’s shoes and one million yen in cash

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 28, 2026

Parkside stop to rest turns out to be very costly.

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • crime • drunk • robbery • theft • weird)

Okinawa man convinced he won 700 million yen by scammers, saved by convenience store staff

• Master Blaster
  Sep 8, 2026

To serve and protect.

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• Japan
• (convenience stores • crime • fraud • Lawson • Okinawa • prepaid cards • special fraud • tokushu sagi • Tomigusuku)

Movie about Shinzo Abe assassination reportedly in the works

• Master Blaster
  Sep 4, 2026

Too soon?

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• Japan
• (assassination • crime • Masaki Suda • movies • Shinzo Abe • Unification Church)

American tourist in Japan arrested on charges of attempted murder and arson

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 3, 2026

Arrest follows Okinawan hotel fire that took place last month.

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• Japan
• (arson • Chatan • COK • crime • fire • Okinawa)

Foreign travelers arrested in Japan following smash-and-grab robbery in Tokyo shopping mall

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 28, 2026

Robbery took place at luxury wristwatch shopping hotspot for foreign tourists.

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• Japan
• (COK • crime • Nakano Broadway • rearrest • robbery • saitaiho • theft • watches • wristwatches)

Amid foreign sex tourist rise, Japanese government considering outlawing paying for prostitution

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 25, 2026

No selling should also mean no buying, expert panel says.

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• Japan
• (COK • crime • law • prostitution • Prostitution Prevention Law • society)

Police in Japan looking for who’s responsible for dumping 80 loaves of bread on side of road [Video]

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 25, 2026

Weird crime could lead to seriously dangerous results.

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• Japan
• (bread • crazy • crime • dumping • food • litter • littering • National Parks • outdoors • video • weird)

Ninja theme park suddenly closes in Japan, shadow warriors undone by shady real estate deals

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 21, 2026

If only some justice-loving shinobi had put a stop to things before Ise Ninja Kingdom had to shut down.

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• Japan
• (Amusement Parks • crime • Ise Ninja Kingdom • Japan travel • Ninja • theme parks • tourism • travel)

Japanese man arrested after pretending to be foreigner while trying to rob convenience store

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 20, 2026

Attempt to pass himself off as a foreigner reveals possible link to another crime too.

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• Japan
• (COK • convenience stores • crime • foreigners in Japan • Japanese language • Lawson • linguistics)

Anime fan in Japan arrested for ordering and cancelling over 4.3 billion yen in anime merch

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 7, 2026

Shop ‘till you drop unfortunately becomes shop ‘till you get arrested.

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• Japan
• (anime • COK • crime • fraud • Jump Character Shop • manga • otaku • Shueisha • Weekly Shonen Jump)

Okayama man arrested for catching butterflies in central Japan

• Master Blaster
  Jul 31, 2026

It’s becoming a regular Gotham City out there.

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• Japan
• (butterflies • crime • endangered species • Gifu • insects • Kita Alps • Kohyomon Modoki • Mellicta ambigua niphona • Norikura Kogen • Okayama)

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