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Clown-masked stalker spotted multiple times in Japan’s Osaka Prefecture, still at large

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 23, 2019
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Clowns are always scary, but especially when they’re following kids and women at night.

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• (clowns • COK • crazy • crime • scary • stalkers • weird)

Nanotech professor from one of Japan’s top universities arrested for panty-theft

• Master Blaster
  Nov 20, 2019

Looks like Nerdlinger’s bra bomb didn’t work.

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• Japan
• (Chiba • crime • Ichikawa • Keio University • lingerie • panties • professor • schools • Teachers • theft • underwear)

Japanese people outraged by group riding bikes through underground shopping mall in Osaka 【Video】

• SoraNews24
  Nov 19, 2019

Group includes a man in his 40s who sees no problem with doing wheelies through Namba Station.

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• (bicycles • bikes • crime • Japanese train stations • Namba Station • news • Osaka • police • train stations • trains)

Disturbing video shows man hitting woman for crossing her legs on Japanese train【Video】

• Oona McGee
  Nov 18, 2019

Manners on board are important in Japan, but we never expected to see this.

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

That time we got imprisoned in a Tokyo hostess bar

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 16, 2019

The true, and truly weird, story of the time our hostess-bar-loving reporter went out for a drink, and couldn’t come back.

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• Japan
• (aiseki lounge • bars • COK • crazy • crime • hostess bars • SNJO • weird)

Pre-pubescent boy in Japan uses his high voice to impersonate a schoolgirl in prostitution scam

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 15, 2019

It’s sure to become one his fondest childhood memories.

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • crime • prostetution • scam • schoolgirls • weird)

Kyoto Animation has a touchingly kind plan to distribute its 3.2 billion yen in arson donations

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 15, 2019

Company continues to put people first as it meets with victims’ families and refuses to use funds for business recovery.

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• Japan
• (anime • arson • charity • crime • donations • Kyoto Animation • moving • touching)

Man arrested for rape 4 days after the statute of limitations expired

• Master Blaster
  Nov 14, 2019

Suspect was almost cleared on a legal loophole, only to be snagged by a different legal loophole.

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• Japan
• (crime • Kanagawa • kawasaki • law • police • rape • statute of limitations • Yokohama)

Tokyo Metropolitan Police say they’ve captured the Ame-zing Spider-Man

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 9, 2019

Would J. Jonah Jameson be ame-zingly happy to see this menace off the streets?

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• Japan
• (crazy • crime • funny • Marvel • rain • Spider-Man • Superheroes • Tokyo • weird)

Hyogo man arrested for creating biohazard zone with “own” pee

• Master Blaster
  Nov 8, 2019

Suspect was 42 years old. His pee was at least five.

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• (Akashi • crazy • crime • gross • Hyogo • illegal dumping • pee • pee bottles • urine • weird)

Niigata student tricks woman out of 100,000 yen and two pairs of dirty underwear

• Master Blaster
  Nov 4, 2019

Ah, the old dirty-underwear-wrap con. She should have seen it coming.

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• (con artists • crime • Minami Alps • Nagaoka • Niigata • scam • twitter • underwear • Yamanashi)

Shibuya Halloween: 9 people arrested for theft, assault, and groping【Pics & Videos】

• SoraNews24
  Nov 1, 2019

Insane crowds caused a standstill on Shibuya streets as police kept partygoers in line. 

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• Japan
• (cosplay • cosplayers • crime • halloween • Halloween 2019 • news • police • Shibuya • Shibuya Halloween)

Kyoto Animation arson attack leads Japanese government to develop stricter gas sale regulations

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 30, 2019

New law would require documentation of the sort of purchase arsonist made prior to attack.

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

Mother smacks child for riding bike in front of oncoming car, debate ensues【Video】

• Oona McGee
  Oct 28, 2019

Japanese netizens both condemn and praise this mother for her actions.

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• (bicycles • child abuse • children • crime • dash cam • laws • Parenting • parents • society • videos • violence)

Shibuya Halloween 2019: Verbal clashes, cosplay, and pumpkin meerkats【Pics & Videos】

• Oona McGee
  Oct 27, 2019

Foreigner threatens to punch a Minion while Donald Trump picks his nose amongst anime characters on Shibuya’s rowdiest night of the year.

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• (cosplay • cosplayers • crime • halloween • Halloween 2019 • news • Shibuya • Shibuya Halloween • SNO)

Picking seaweed up off the beach and taking it home is illegal in most of Japan, and here’s why

• Katy Kelly
  Oct 25, 2019

What’s the harm in pinching a tiny bit of seaweed? Quite a lot, as our Japanese-language reporter learned.
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• Japan
• (COK • conservation • crime • environment • fish • fishermen • fishing • nature • Ocean • seafood • seaweed • SNJO • society • Tottori)

Tokyo host club host headbutts woman after being told he “sucks” at karaoke

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 24, 2019

”It pissed me off” host tells police.

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• (COK • crime • headbutt • host bars • hosts • Kabukicho • karaoke)

Tokyo’s Shibuya bans public drinking for Halloween, and here’s the affected area【Map】

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 22, 2019

Escalating vandalism prompts four-night drinking ban in area that includes world-famous Shibuya Scramble intersection.

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• Japan
• (alcohol • crime • halloween • Shibuya • Shibuya Halloween • society)

Over 80 percent of Kyoto Animation employees injured in arson attack have returned to work

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 21, 2019

President promises upcoming anime movies are still in production, but says “Things are still very far from normal.”

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• Japan
• (anime • arson • crime • Kyoto Animation • moving • touching)

Dashcam catches “frustrated” man punching through windshield of random woman’s car

• Master Blaster
  Oct 20, 2019

Suspect turns himself in to police, and an Internet star is born.

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• Japan
• (Aichi • attack • crime • Toyoake • vandalism • weird • windshield)

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