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Japan finalizes life imprisonment sentence for Shinkansen murderer

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 8, 2020
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Man who slashed random bullet train passengers cheered as his sentence was handed down.

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• Japan
• (2018 Shinkansen slashing • capital punishment • COK • crime • death penalty • Genbi Shinkansen • murder • shinkansen)

Kyoto Animation arsonist develops a soft spot for nurse treating him at hospital

• SoraNews24
  Jan 7, 2020

People in Japan are concerned for the nurse who’s become the object of a killer’s affections. 

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

Residents don’t want Kyoto Animation to build monument, memorial park to victims at arson site

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 26, 2019

Kyoto neighborhood organization says it would “destroy the peaceful lifestyle” of local residents.

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

Twin-tailed flasher in Japan’s coldest prefecture may not understand how flashing works

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 21, 2019

Heavyset man exposes himself on sub-zero night.

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • crime • flasher • Hokkaido • Sapporo • weird)

Family of four arrested for six-month spate of burglaries in Saitama Prefecture

• Master Blaster
  Dec 19, 2019

The family that steals together stays together…until they have to go to separate men’s and women’s prisons of course.

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• Japan
• (burglary • COK • crazy • crime • family • Manbiki Kazoku • Saitama • theft)

Groper in Japan says he couldn’t resist “young females’ breasts,” all victims much older than him

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 16, 2019

Personal definition of “young” includes a woman more than twice his age.

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• Japan
• (chikan • COK • crime • gropers)

Angry anime shopper tells store employees to “Die” 3,852 times in death threat emails

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 14, 2019

Disgruntled 34-year-old woman says she wished the staff had died and Kyoto Animation workers lived.

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

Ibaraki Police warn against fake warnings by the police

• Master Blaster
  Dec 10, 2019

Hmmm…

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• Japan
• (con • crime • fraud • Ibaraki • ore ore sagi • police • scam • Tsukuba)

Anime company president arrested for taking nude photos of teen girl who wanted to be voice actress

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 5, 2019

President of Gainax, production company that made Evangelion TV series, allegedly told her “It’s practice for when you become famous.”

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• Japan
• (#foreveralone • anime • crime • Evangelion • GAINAX • voice actresses)

Sending naughty kids to bed without dinner may soon be illegal in Japan

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 5, 2019

Guidelines from ministry say “any corporal punishment, no matter how light, is prohibited.”

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• Japan
• (child abuse • COK • Corporal punishment • crime • kids • Parenting • parents)

“Mayonnaise Man” believed to have returned to his uniform-ruining ways in Hokkaido

• Master Blaster
  Dec 2, 2019

However, he appears to have traded in his weapon for a lower-calorie alternative.

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• Japan
• (crime • dressing • Ebetsu • high school uniform • mayo • mayonnaise • Mayonnaise Man)

Taxi driver argues with man, runs him over then drives into wall 【Video】

• SoraNews24
  Nov 30, 2019

Some people in Japan are siding with the driver over the incident.

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• Japan
• (crime • fighting • Fukuoka • hakata • Kyushu • news • taxi drivers • taxis • video)

Yamato delivery man kicked and yelled at by older colleague in Japan【Video】

• SoraNews24
  Nov 30, 2019

Japan is known for its amazing delivery services, but behind the scenes there’s a lot of stress in keeping up the high standard. 

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• Japan
• (crime • fighting • Japanese trains • manners • news • Osaka • police • scary • train manners • trains • video)

Vietnamese workers get scolded by boss in Japan, retaliate by punching him in the head 【Video】

• SoraNews24
  Nov 28, 2019

Workers are said to be participating in the government’s Technical Intern Training Program.

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• Japan
• (crime • fighting • foreigners • foreigners living in Japan • interns • Japanese workplace • news • Technical Intern Training Program • trainees • video • working in Japan)

Saitama senior arrested after calling telecom provider 24,000 times to complain

• Master Blaster
  Nov 28, 2019

A one-week reign of touch-tone terror consisting of 411 calls led to the arrest.

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• Japan
• (aging population • crime • customer complaints • customer service • IT • KDDI • obstruction of business • Saitama • telecommunications)

Hate speech may soon be punishable by a 500,000-yen fine in one of Japan’s largest cities

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 28, 2019

One of Tokyo’s neighbors may become the first place in Japan to enact punishment for hate speech.

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• Japan
• (COK • crime • discrimination • hate speech • internationalism • kawasaki • law • society)

Demolition work begins on Kyoto Animation’s arson-ravaged studio

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 27, 2019

Workers begin gutting interior of Fushimi anime studio in preparation of tearing down its frame.

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

Wannabe science fiction writer graffitis centuries-old Kyoto temple for extremely weird reason

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 27, 2019

Baffling justification still gets him arrested.

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• Japan
• (COK • crime • culture • graffiti • Kyoto • Ryoanji • temples • vandalism • weird)

15 tons of sweet potatoes stolen in rural Japan, criminal crew may be targeting spuds

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 24, 2019

Farmer didn’t bother to lock the door to his storehouse, because who steals sweet potatoes?

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• Japan
• (crazy • crime • farmers • farming • food • sweet potatoes • weird)

Japanese woman arrested for snipping hair off a woman’s head on bus

• Oona McGee
  Nov 23, 2019

Many people are siding with the perpetrator, saying they’ve been annoyed with hair on public transport too. 

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• Japan
• (bus • buses • crime • hair • Hokkaido • Japanese women • manners • news • police • Sapporo • scary • video • women)

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