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Trio of thieves break into Japanese glasses store, foiled by old-timey cash register

• Master Blaster
  Jan 18, 2021
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They don’t make them like they used to… back in 1908.

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• Japan
• (burglary • cash register • crime • glasses • Kamakura • Kanagawa • National Cash Register • optician • theft)

Serial toilet thief captured by police in Japan

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 12, 2021

Investigators can finally close the book on “The God of Toilets Case.”

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • crime • theft • Toilets • weird)

Japanese high school students arrested for robbing pachinko parlour at knife-point

• Katie Pask
  Jan 11, 2021

Surely there’s a better way to start 2021 than this.

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• Japan
• (Beppu • crazy • crime • nakatsu • Oita • pachinko • robbery • society)

Kyoto Animation arsonist says which scene he feels copied his work and incited attack

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 8, 2021

Incredibly brief Tsurune meat-shopping scene aired exactly eight months before arson attack.

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• Japan
• (anime • arson • crime • Kyoto Animation • Kyoto Animation arson attack • Tsurune)

Real-life Team Rocket? Pokémon popsicle fraud gets man arrested in Japan

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 7, 2021

Saitama Prefectural Police foil underhanded method to catch ‘em all.

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• Japan
• (anime • crime • food • Garigari-kun • Pikachu • Pokemon • Pokémon Coco • popsicles • sweets • video games • weird)

Manga author who groped girl’s breasts on Tokyo street won’t have to spend any time in jail

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 28, 2020

Trial ends with suspended sentence for Act-Age creator.

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• Japan
• (Act-Age • anime • COK • crime • groping • manga • Tatsuya Matsuki • Tatsuya Matsumoto)

Gunma teacher arrested for spray-gluing coworker’s belongings to desk

• Master Blaster
  Dec 24, 2020

Charges against the teacher are likely to stick.

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• Japan
• (crime • Gunma • school • spray glue • Takasaki • Teachers • vandalism)

Hokkaido man steals front end loader from neighboring town to plow snow in own neighborhood

• Master Blaster
  Dec 24, 2020

He’ll need to steal an excavator too to dig himself out of this hole.

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• Japan
• (construction equipment • crime • front-end loader • Hokkaido • Nakafurano • snow • theft)

Kyoto Animation arsonist’s psychological evaluation ends, open door to prosecution

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 16, 2020

A year and a half after the attack that killed 36 people, mental health questions are no longer a road block to trial.

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• Japan
• (anime • arson • crime • Kyoto Animation • Kyoto Animation arson attack)

Man in Japan told he owes “unpaid adult web site fees,” ends up giving scammers over 100 million yen

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 16, 2020

First payment sets off string of scams that ran for months.

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• Japan
• (COK • crime • scam • scammers)

Elderly Wakayama woman arrested for hacking her local supermarket’s self-checkout

• Master Blaster
  Dec 12, 2020

Senior turned to computer fraud to get a discount on her eggs.

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• Japan
• (aging population • computer fraud • crime • discount stickers • elderly • Kainan • self-checkout • seniors • supermarkets • Wakayama)

Idol otaku arrested for bomb threat after his idol T-shirt gets burned

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 10, 2020

He did the one thing you shouldn’t do if you don’t want your idol merch to go up in smoke.

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• Japan
• (bomb • burnable trash • COK • crazy • crime • idol • idol singers • otaku • t-shirts • threat • trash • weird)

Post office manager sacked for embezzling 130 million yen in stamps

• Master Blaster
  Dec 7, 2020

Yeah, but when you convert that to dollars… Holy cow!

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • crime • Japan Post • Osaka • post office • Sakai City • stamps • weird)

Manga creator admits to groping 14-year-old girl, asks for no prison time at trial

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 25, 2020

Shonen Jump manga writer’s lawyer says he’s already been punished by society.

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• Japan
• (Act-Age • anime • COK • crime • groping • manga • Weekly Shonen Jump)

Middle-aged Tokyo man, escorted by his mother, confesses to killing elderly homeless woman

• Dale Roll
  Nov 24, 2020

A sad tale of a homeless person being punished for taking up space. 

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• Japan
• (assault • crime • elderly • homeless • murder • news • sad • Tokyo • violence)

Surprisingly strong Hokkaido woman arrested for poking holes in 13 expensive melons with finger

• Master Blaster
  Nov 23, 2020

“You’re already unsellable.”

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• Japan
• (crime • Fist of North Star • food • Hokkaido • Hokuto Shinken • melons • supermarkets • Yubari King)

Kyoto man arrested for opening packs of Demon Slayer key chains until finding one he wanted

• Master Blaster
  Nov 23, 2020

But who’s the real demon here?

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• Japan
• (anime • COK • convenience store • crime • Demon Slayer • key chain • Kyoto • manga • toys • weird)

Face mask distributer imprisoned in sex shop by yakuza for 11 hours

• Master Blaster
  Nov 18, 2020

All in a day’s work for a medical supply dealer.

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• Japan
• (business • crime • face masks • hostage • resale • Tokyo • weird • yakuza)

Fukuoka woman drives through front of convenience store because she really needed to pee

• Master Blaster
  Nov 17, 2020

Sometimes, peeing your pants is better.

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• Japan
• (car accident • convenience store • crime • driving without a license • drunk driving • Fukuoka • law)

Mugger sticks gun in Japanese teenager’s back, she tells him to get a job

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 16, 2020

Woman would rather thief take life advice than other people’s money.

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • crime • mugging • robbery)

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