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Man arrested for attempting to rob Tokyo police with fruit knife

• Master Blaster
  May 1, 2019
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The “arrested” part probably goes without saying though.

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• Japan
• (Asakusa • crime • Kaminarimon • koban • police • robbery • strange • Tokyo)

Japanese woman finds a depressing way to prevent train gropers from targeting her

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 26, 2019

Less groping is always good, but the flip side to this countermeasure is what has people upset.

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• Japan
• (chikan • crime • gropers • school uniforms.COK • schoolgirls • trains • uniforms)

Five members of the Bad Lobster biker group arrested by Ebina police

• Master Blaster
  Apr 19, 2019

Residents live in mild fear of the gang and hope their daughters never bring a Bad Lobster home for dinner.

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• Japan
• (biker gangs • bosozoku • crime • ebi • Ebina • Kanagawa • lobster • Shrimp)

Foreign resident arrested in Japan for illegally BitTorrent uploading anime

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 16, 2019

You might have thought no one cares about the series that he got caught for, but they do, and his total damages are estimated at 1.8 billion yen.

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• Japan
• (anime • BitTorrent • crime • foreigners in Japan • piracy)

Fukuoka man arrested for stealing used tennis rackets because he liked their smell

• Master Blaster
  Apr 15, 2019

Theft of sporting goods may have been a crime of passion.

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• Japan
• (crime • Fukuoka • high school • sports • tennis • tennis racket • theft)

Shizuoka Police on the lookout for man who threw adult DVDs at teenage boy

• Master Blaster
  Apr 13, 2019

Kids these days… They don’t know the value of an adult DVD.

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• Japan
• (crazy • crime • DVD • funny • police • Shizuoka • weird)

Idol group that covered up singer’s attack by fans at home dismantles team system for “relaunch”

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 12, 2019

NGT48 shakeup comes after months of scandal.

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• Japan
• (AKB48 • crime • idol singers • Idols • Maho Yamaguchi • music • NGT48)

20-something Japanese woman takes junior high boy to hotel for lewd activity, gets off with fine

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 4, 2019

Internet chats lead to illegal rendezvous.

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• Japan
• (COK • crime • hotel • junior high school • Kobe)

Final Fantasy publisher Square Enix receives death threat from gamer angry at loot boxes/gacha

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 3, 2019

”Wash your necks and wait!” commands gamer who didn’t get the item he wanted.

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• Japan
• (COK • crime • Final Fantasy • gacha games • loot boxes • Square Enix • threat • video games)

Man in Tokyo slices own stomach with knife near one of the city’s busiest train stations

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 30, 2019

Police officers arrive to find man collapsed and bleeding.

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• Japan
• (crime • Ikebukuro • knife • scary • seppuku • suicide • Tokyo)

Nagoya teens arrested for pooping off the roof of building, posting video on net

• Master Blaster
  Mar 29, 2019

The literal and proverbial s#&t has hit the fan for one pair of boys.

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• Japan
• (crazy • crime • gross • Nagoya • poop • trespassing • video • weird • wtf)

Kyoto schoolgirl arrested after failing drug test for marijuana use

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 28, 2019

Says she began smoking to help her sleep after feeling stressed from family life.

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• Japan
• (COK • crime • Drugs • Kyoto • marijuana)

Immigration raid at anime convention ends with five Japanese cosplayers being arrested overseas

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 26, 2019

Work visa violations result in participants from four countries being arrested, Japanese cosplayers still being held in custody.

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• Japan
• (anime • anime conventions • cosplay • cosplayers • crime • immigration • Malaysia • otaku • work visas)

Idol says her on-stage apology after being attacked was something her managers forced her to do

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 25, 2019

NGT48 members says she was told that if she didn’t apologize, another idol would be made to read a letter of apology for her.

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• Japan
• (AKB48 • crime • idol singers • Idols • Maho Yamaguchi • NGT48)

Naked woman runs through one of Tokyo’s busiest train stations, police say she’s not a criminal

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 22, 2019

Shibuya Station is an unusual place to pick for a jog even if you have your clothes on.

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • crime • funny • Shibuya • Shibuya Station • weird)

Japan’s prime minister wants to make it illegal for parents to hit kids when disciplining them

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 22, 2019

Cites increasing number of child abuse cases as reason parents need to be reined in.

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• Japan
• (child abuse • COK • crime • laws • Parenting • parents • society • violence)

Japanese family wakes up to find complete stranger sleeping in his underwear in their living room

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 21, 2019

Magical powers, time travel offered as possible explanation by shocked commenters.

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• Japan
• (break-in • crazy • crime • funny • intruder • weird)

Japanese truck driver arrested for slapping young boy in the face after wet toilet paper prank

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 21, 2019

Understandable anger, illegal reaction.

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• Japan
• (attack • COK • crime • gross • prank • restrooms • toilet paper • Toilets)

Foreign technical trainees accused of shoplifting 12.58 million yen of drugstore goods in Japan

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 20, 2019

Vietnamese nationals accused of swiping thousands of cosmetic items and medicines.

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• Japan
• (COK • cosmetics • crazy • crime • drugstores • shoplifting • theft)

Disney stops selling, producing Frozen Blu-rays in Japan as drug arrest fallout continues

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 19, 2019

Voice actor’s white powder activities put his snowman Olaf performance on ice.

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• Japan
• (COK • crime • Denki Groove • Disney • Drugs • frozen • Masanori Taki • movies • Olaf • Pierre Taki • scandal)

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