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Hyogo man arrested for stealing over 1,000 New Year greeting cards to “distract from loneliness”

• Master Blaster
  Feb 16, 2023
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1,000 is the loneliest number.

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• Japan
• (crime • Hyogo • nengajyo • New Year's • New Year's cards • Nishinomiya • theft)

Osaka man arrested after paying phone bill in the middle of crime spree

• Master Blaster
  Feb 14, 2023

Crime doesn’t pay.

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• Japan
• (convenience stores • crime • Osaka • phone bill • robbery • strange)

“Android” arrested for rice ball theft in Japan, Android Woman denies involvement

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 3, 2023

Android Woman says she wasn’t that android woman.

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• Japan
• (COK • crime • onigiri • rice balls • shoplifting • weird)

Groper arrested in Japan insists he did not grab both breasts, but just one

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 30, 2023

Japanese language quirk made charges ambiguous, but he probably didn’t help his case by clearing that up.

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• Japan
• (chikcan • COK • crazy • crime • groper • Japanese language • linguistics • weird)

Japanese police file charges against illegal anime girl huggy pillow cover seller

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 28, 2023

Prosecutors plan to throw the book, not the pillows, at him.

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• Japan
• (anime • counterfeit • crime • dakimakura • huggy pillows • manga • police evidence)

Nitori furniture store guard arrested for shoplifting from Nitori furniture store

• Master Blaster
  Jan 27, 2023

Hard to find good help these days.

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• Japan
• (business • crime • furniture • Kumagaya • Nitori • Saitama • security guard • theft)

Sickle-wielding attacker safely fended off by victim’s umbrella in Aomori

• Master Blaster
  Jan 27, 2023

The umbrella is mightier than the sickle.

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• Japan
• (Aomori • assault • crime • fighting • Hachinohe • sickles • umbrellas)

Former women’s world boxing champion confronts molester on bus in Japan

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 26, 2023

Kumiko Shisa Ikehara couldn’t let him get away with it.

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• Japan
• (awesome • boxing • buses • chikan • crime • molesters • sports)

Why do people spend so long in jail without going to trial in Japan?

• Master Blaster
  Jan 24, 2023

It’s the land of serial arresting.

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• Japan
• (Chiba • crime • detention • Ibaraki • jail • law • re-arrest • saitaiho • Saitama)

43-year-old bosozoku biker arrested for never growing out of his teenage riding style

• Master Blaster
  Jan 22, 2023

No country for old bikers.

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• Japan
• (bikers • bosozoku • crime • Kanagawa • kyushakai • meandering • old-car club • reckless driving)

Japanese makers of Tropicana fined 19 million yen for “100% Melon” juice with only 2% melon juice

• Master Blaster
  Jan 20, 2023

Accountability never tasted so sweet.

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• Japan
• (COK • crime • drinks • fruit • Kirin Beverage • melon juice • melons • scams • Tropicana • weird)

Japanese college student admits he robbed taxi driver, denies in court that he was rude about it

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 16, 2023

Suspect speaks up at trial to correct misquote that made him sound like a jerk while he was taking cabbie’s money.

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • crime • etiquette • manners • robber • taxi • weird)

Japanese teacher who asked permission to jerk off at convenience store has been fired

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 30, 2022

There are some things you just can’t bounce back from at work.

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • crime • gross • Teachers • weird)

Tokyo train operator begins issuing body cameras, but it’s not employee conduct that worries them

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 28, 2022

JR East implements new policy in time for New Year’s.

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• Japan
• (body cameras • COK • crime • East Japan Railway Company • JR • JR East • stations • trains)

Tokyo couple caught making stickers with police mascot flipping bird

• Master Blaster
  Dec 16, 2022

That salute is not in the police manual.

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• Japan
• (crime • mascot characters • Mascots • Peopo-kun • police • Tokyo Metropolitan Police • trademark • weird)

Man jumps in front of Tokyo Disneyland parade, gets tackled to sound of Christmas music【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 15, 2022

Cast members spring into action in surreal moment for parkgoers.

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• Japan
• (Christmas • COK • crazy • crime • Disneyland • parade • Tokyo Disney Resort • Tokyo Disneyland • video • weird)

Why don’t hosts in Kabukicho approach our female reporter any more?

• Oona McGee
  Dec 11, 2022

Back when she was younger she couldn’t get away from them, so we visit a host club to find out what’s going on. 

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• Japan
• (COK • crime • host bars • hostess bars • hosts • Ikuna Kamezawa • Kabukicho • Kamurocho • Like a Dragon • Mr. Sato • Ryu ga Gotoku • Sega • shinjuku • SNJO • Tokyo • video game • yakuza)

“I’m the most famous thug in Saitama!” Japanese kids’ social media beef leads to beating, arrests

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 10, 2022

Never get into pointless arguments on the Internet, especially if the other person is friends with a yakuza member.

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• Japan
• (crazy • crime • delinquents • weird • yakuza • Yankee • youth)

Is real Tokyo as dangerous as the Yakuza video games? Chapter 4: Not Like a Dragon

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 9, 2022

The fourth and final stop on Mr. Sato’s look at Kabukicho, the real-world Kamurocho.

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• Japan
• (COK • crime • hostess bars • Kabukicho • Kamurocho • Like a Dragon • Mr. Sato • Ryu ga Gotoku • Sega • SNJO • video game • yakuza)

Is real Tokyo as dangerous as the Yakuza video games? Chapter 3: Crazy Town

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 8, 2022

Stories of blood, cockroaches, and the old days of Kabukicho, Tokyo’s real-world Kamurocho.

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• Japan
• (COK • crime • hostess bars • Kabukicho • Kamurocho • Like a Dragon • Mr. Sato • Ryu ga Gotoku • Sega • SNJO • video game • yakuza)

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