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Tokyo Pokémon Center announces reopening after months-long closure following stabbing death

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 28, 2026
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Ikebukuro Pokémon Center and Pikachu Sweets cafe immediately closed following tragic event.

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• Japan
• (anime • COK • crime • Ikebukuro • Ikebukuro Pokemon Center • manga • Pikachu Sweets • Pokemon • Pokémon Cente Mega Tokyo • Pokemon Center • Pokémon Center stabbing • Sunshine City • video games)

61-year-old Kyoto man arrested for playing guitar and radio too loudly for seven years

• Master Blaster
  Jul 27, 2026

Those darn sexagenarians with their loud rock music.

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• Japan
• (assault • crime • etiquette • guitars • Kyoto • music • noise • nuisance)

Mass murder plot stopped by friend of Akihabara mass murderer

• Master Blaster
  Jul 17, 2026

A friend to the friendless.

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• Japan
• (Akihabara Massacre • crime • murder • Shuitsu Otomo • Tokyo • Tomohiro Kato • Toyama)

Defacing the Japanese flag is now a crime, says government, punishable by up to two years in jail

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 17, 2026

Causing “unpleasantness” could put you behind bars.

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• Japan
• (COK • crime • flag • Japanese flag • Japanese flag law • laws • society)

Teen girl in Japan refuses to be victim, personally escorts train pervert to police for arrest

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 17, 2026

Things did not turn out how this creep had planned.

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• Japan
• (awesome • chikan • COK • crime • trains)

Shizuoka police inspector punished for playing crane games on duty

• Master Blaster
  Jul 14, 2026

To serve and get plush toys.

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• Japan
• (crane games • crazy • crime • fraud • police • UFO catchers • weird)

Man arrested in Tokyo after allegedly luring foreign tourists into shady Kabukicho establishments

• Oona McGee
  Jul 14, 2026

Tokyo police issue warning to overseas visitors as dozens of people report scams by suspected touts in the city’s nightlife district.

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• Japan
• (bar barkers • bars • crime • Kabukicho • kyakuhiki • news • police • restaurants • shinjuku • street touts • Tokyo • touts)

Foreign tourists injured in Nissan GT-R crash near Tokyo’s Shibuya Scramble Crossing

• Oona McGee
  Jul 8, 2026

Late-night incident highlights concerns over Japan’s illegal “white taxi” operators.

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• Japan
• (cars • crime • news • nissan • NISSAN GT-R • police • Shibuya • Shibuya scramble crossing • Shirotaku • sports cars • Tokyo • tourists • video • white taxi)

Foreign resident of Japan arrested after spraying bear repellant inside post office

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 3, 2026

Claims it was an accident, police not so sure.

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• Japan
• (bear repellant • bear spray • bears • crazy • crime • weird)

Sleep at Hoshinoya Nara Prison, one of the most unique hotels in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Jul 1, 2026

One-of-a-kind accommodation includes former prison cells that have been transformed into guest rooms.

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• Japan
• (accommodation • crime • history • Hoshino Resorts • hotel • hotels • Japanese hotel • Luxury • Nara • Nara Juvenile Prison • Nara Prison • prison • travel • unique stays • unusual accommodation • unusual stays • weird)

Speed trap camera stolen from Saitama Police while in use

• Master Blaster
  Jun 30, 2026

They must have stolen it very quickly, but it looks like we’ll never know how fast they were going.

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• Japan
• (crime • law enforcement • Orbis • police • radar • Saitama • speeding • theft)

International fugitive Carlos Ghosn says he’d be best person to head Nissan now

• Master Blaster
  Jun 29, 2026

I think I have a better chance of becoming CEO of Nissan at this point.

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• Japan
• (business • Carlos Ghosn • cars • crime • executives • Lebanon • nissan)

Japanese man’s gross conveyor belt sushi social media prank video gets him a 500,000-yen fine

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 27, 2026

Cost of sushi? 132 yen. Cost of being a moron? 500,000.

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• Japan
• (COK • Conveyor belt sushi • crime • food • forced obstruction of business • gross • Hama Sushi • kaiten sushi • Kaitenzushi • pranks • restaurants • revolving sushi • sushi)

Tokyo cops arrest foreigner for suspected visa violation, don’t know what new residence cards look like

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 26, 2026

Seems like the people doing on-the-street immigration checks should know what immigration documents look like, doesn’t it?

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• Japan
• (crime • foreigners in Japan • immigration • Living in Japan • police • police questioning • residence card • shokumu shitsumon • society • zairyu card)

Married Japanese man must pay 4.6 million yen after faking being single and impregnating partner

• Elliot Hale
  Jun 26, 2026

Falsifying a relationship status can land you with a massive bill.

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• Japan
• (COK • crime • dokushin giso • fake bachelorhood • fake singlehood • law • lawsuit • relationships • right to chastity • right to sexual self-determination • romance • society)

Over a billion yen in smuggled gold found inside sex dolls by Japanese investigators

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 26, 2026

Unexpected objects found inserted into these love dolls.

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• Japan
• (crazy • crime • dolls • gross • smuggling • weird)

Foreign tourist arrested in Japan after drifting in museum parking lot[Video]

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 23, 2026

The Dumb and the Inconsiderate: Tochigi Drift.
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• Japan
• (cars • crazy • crime • drifting • tourist crime • vandalism • video)

Suspected Japanese ice cream cartel under investigation for price-fixing

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 19, 2026

Six of Japan’s biggest ice cream makers face accusations of collaborating to keep fairly priced ice cream out of consumers’ hands/stomachs.

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• Japan
• (COK • crime • food • Glico • ice cream • Lotte • Meiji • Moriyama.Akagi Nyugyo • sweets)

Luxury houseplant fraud leads to arrest of Takamatsu man

• Master Blaster
  Jun 13, 2026

Grand theft arbor.

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • crime • fraud • houseplants • Operculicarya hyphaenoides • plants • weird)

Gun found in Japanese convenience store restroom, traced to forgetful on-duty cop

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 10, 2026

A public restroom stall shock that had nothing to do with cleanliness.

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• Japan
• (bathrooms • COK • convenience stores • crazy • crime • firearms • funny • gun • police • restrooms • weird)

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