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It’s illegal for yakuza to go to professional baseball games in Japan, Tokyo arrests remind us

Casey Baseel
Feb 14, 2026
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Life of crime or live baseball fan? You can only choose one.

Japan
(baseball • COK • crazy • crime • sports • Tokyo Dome • weird • yakuza)

Elderly Japan man arrested for stealing toilet, using it in his home for three months

Casey Baseel
Feb 14, 2026

Veteran contractor becomes senior thief.

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

Paying for prostitution isn’t illegal in Japan, but it could be soon

Casey Baseel
Feb 11, 2026

Ministry of Justice eyeing changes to Prostitution Prevention Law.

Japan
(COK • crime • law • prostitution • Prostitution Prevention Law • society)

Man in Japan takes four parakeets hostage in attempt to force woman to meet with him

Casey Baseel
Feb 11, 2026

Tells woman that “There is no way for you to save the parakeets except to come home.”

Japan
(animals • birds • crazy • crime • parakeets • pets • weird)

Japan law lets you claim reward for finding lost property, man may have scammed it over 60 times

Casey Baseel
Feb 10, 2026

Tokyo man arrested for stealing smartphone, turning it in to police to claim reward money.

Japan
(crime • fraud • fraudsters • lost property • Lost Property Act • scam artists • scams • theft)

Man arrested in Japan after leaving car in coin parking lot for six years, racking up three-million-yen bill

Casey Baseel
Feb 10, 2026

Says he remembers parking his car, but can’t remember the exact date he did it anymore.

Japan
(cars • coin parking • COK • crazy • crime • Forcible Obstruction of Business • fraud • parking lots • weird)

Ramen shop manager arrested for punching self in the face and pretending he was robbed

Master Blaster
Feb 6, 2026

He should have punched harder and knocked some sense into himself.

Japan
(crazy • crime • fraud • obstruction of business • ramen • robbery • Saitama • scam artists • scams • weird)

Japan has abolished advance deportation notifications to foreigners’ lawyers

Casey Baseel
Feb 3, 2026

16-year policy swept away with less than a week for transition.

Japan
(COK • crime • deportation • foreigners in Japan • immigration • Living in Japan • society)

420 million yen in cash-filled suitcases stolen on Tokyo streets, incidents at Haneda and Hong Kong follow

Casey Baseel
Jan 31, 2026

Three robbery attempts, all connected to Hong Kong currency exchange, take place within 14 hours of each other.

China, Japan
(COK • crazy • crime • Haneda • Haneda Airport • Hong Kong • Okachimachi • robbery • theft • Ueno • video)

Japanese man gets drunk and falls asleep on Tokyo streets, then gets robbed by foreign national

Casey Baseel
Jan 30, 2026

They say no one sleeps in Tokyo’s nightlife districts, and here’s a good reason not too.

Japan
(alcohol • crazy • crime • drunk • robbery • Shibuya • theft • weird)

Anime isn’t like reality: Japanese police arrest man holding three knives, one in his mouth

Casey Baseel
Jan 28, 2026

Leave the three-blade techniques to One Piece’s Zoro.

Japan
(anime • anime isn't like reality • crazy • crime • knives • manga • One Piece • Roronoa Zoro • Sword and Firearm Control Law • weird)

Man arrested in rural Japan on charges of leaving obscene DVDs in stores as gifts for “healthy men”

Casey Baseel
Jan 27, 2026

Commitment to physical media apparently stronger than concern for consent for the women shown in videos.

Japan
(COK • crazy • crime • DVD • weird)

British man arrested for biting Japanese police officer during shokumu shitsumon questioning

Casey Baseel
Jan 21, 2026

The question of how to respond to the Japanese police’s quasi-random on-the-street questioning is a complex one, but this isn’t the answer.

Japan
(crazy • crime • foreigners in Japan • police questioning • random questioning • shokumu shitsumon • society • weird)

Man with face covered in tattoos admits to repeatedly headbutting Tokyo store clerk【Video】

Casey Baseel
Jan 15, 2026

There was little chance this guy wasn’t getting picked out of a lineup.

Japan
(crazy • crime • tatooes • tattoos • video • weird)

Man arrested for violating Japan’s anti-dueling law in downtown Tokyo

Casey Baseel
Jan 12, 2026

Yes, even in 2026 you can still get arrested if you don’t follow a law originally enacted to keep ex-samurai in line.

Japan
(Act Concerning Dueling • Act Concerning the Criminality of Dueling • anti-dueling law • crazy • crime • dueling • dueling law • Kabukicho • weird)

Japanese thug wear from Birth Japan perfect for those breaking bad next year

Master Blaster
Dec 30, 2025

Becoming a Japanese street tough might just be the change of pace you need.

Japan
(Birth Japan • clothing • crime • diamond • fashion • Lucky Bags • Masanuki Sunakoma • shopping • yakuza • Yankee)

Drunk cycling can result in an instantly suspended driver’s license in Japan

Master Blaster
Dec 24, 2025

If you’re bad behind the handlebars, you’re considered bad behind the wheel here.

Japan
(bicycles • crime • cycling • drinking • driver's license • driving • DUI • law • police • Road Traffic Act)

Large amount of supposed human organs left in Osaka marketplace

Master Blaster
Dec 22, 2025

One person’s trash is another’s nightmare.

Japan
(crazy • crime • gross • hormone • illegal dumping • medical waste • Osaka • Osaka Municipal Wholesale Market • scary)

Japanese man who didn’t know how banks work defrauded out of 21 million yen

Master Blaster
Dec 13, 2025

But now he knows, and knowing is half the battle.

Japan
(banks • COK • crazy • crime • Otsu • scammers • scams • serial numbers • Shiga • special fraud • tokushu sagi)

Japanese woman sues man for 1.5 million yen for violating her “right to chastity”

Master Blaster
Dec 11, 2025

It really does pay to know your rights.

Japan
(COK • crime • dating apps • extramarital affair • law • lawsuit • relationships • right to chastity • right to sexual self-determination • romance • society • teisoken)

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