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Drunk Japanese vice principal stumbles into girls bathing area on field trip, urinates, loses job
- Scott Wilson
Dec 1, 2018 - Tweet
A three-step plan to wreck everything.
- Japan
- (crime • japanese school • onsen • public urination • resignation)
Autonomous AI security robot spotted patrolling Tokyo train station【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Dec 1, 2018
Self-controlled robo guard scans for dangerous individuals and suspicious packages, would probably look adorable with a police officer’s uniform.
- Japan
- (AI • awesome • COK • cool • crime • robots • Seibu Railway • shinjuku • SNOJ • technology • trains)
Japanese court orders YouTube to cooperate in shutting down “manga spoiler” videos
- Casey Baseel
Dec 1, 2018
Tokyo court rules that reposting dialogue alone would have been enough for it to rule in manga publisher’s favor.
Japanese man pretends to visit Muji stores 5.62 million times in six weeks, gets arrested again
- Casey Baseel
Nov 30, 2018
Police say fraudster virtually visited Muji branches on three continents without ever leaving his Hokkaido home.
Japanese government worker fired for lying about having LESS education than he really does
- Casey Baseel
Nov 28, 2018
College graduate said he only graduated from high school, loses job he held for 38 years.
Japanese ex-pro wrestler Chigusa Nagayo saves woman from assault in carpark
- Oona McGee
Nov 21, 2018
The female wrestler, who injured her finger during the altercation, is being hailed a hero for her actions.
- Japan
- (assault • Chigusa Nagayo • crime • female wrestling • Hokkaido • news • police • pro wrestling • Sapporo • wrestlers)
Naked man found sitting inside locker at Japanese train station
- Casey Baseel
Nov 21, 2018
And he didn’t pick a warm city to do it in, either.
Osaka woman terrifyingly attacked by intruder while playing video games in her home late at night
- Master Blaster
Nov 19, 2018
Chilling home invasion is like something out of an urban legend.
- Japan
- (circuit breaker • COK • crime • home invasion • Kaizuka • Osaka • scary • video games)
Tokyo man arrested after telling woman he wanted to rub “just” her breasts
- Casey Baseel
Nov 17, 2018
Limiting your forceful groping to just one part of the body is still plenty past what the law allows.
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Japanese man gets arrested for stealing 30 yen (US 27 cents) from Shinto shrine’s collection box
- Casey Baseel
Nov 15, 2018
Sometimes it’s not how much you steal, but where you steal it from that really gets you in trouble.
Hokkaido man arrested for pretending to visit Aeon shopping centers 2.7 million times
- Master Blaster
Nov 13, 2018
And so ends the Great Aeon Loyalty Point Heist of ’18.
- Japan
- (Aeon • apps • crime • fraud • Hokkaido • loyalty cards • point cards)
Suspects arrested for 100-million yen Kyoto home invasion robbery after eight-year search
- Casey Baseel
Nov 10, 2018
One of the accused was a government-paid politician’s secretary at the time.
Japanese government to outlaw carrying unbound knives on trains starting next year
- Casey Baseel
Nov 9, 2018
No-more-knives rule comes after bullet train slashing in which passenger lost his life.
- Japan
- (bullet train • COK • crime • knives • laws • shinkansen • society • trains)
Japanese cop smashes through window to arrest apparently high-on-meth driver in Osaka【Videos】
- Casey Baseel
Nov 8, 2018
Doing donuts in central Japan’s biggest city is a sure-fire way to get the police to bring out their fists of fury.
49-year-old Japanese shut-in spends weeks living with corpse of mother who died at home
- Casey Baseel
Nov 7, 2018
”I couldn’t do anything,” says hikikomori in written statement.
“The taste of a liar!” Japanese teacher arrested for licking student’s ear
- Katy Kelly
Nov 5, 2018
The teacher declared that he could tell if students were lying if he licked their ears, just like a JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure character.
- Japan
- (cram school • crime • Jojo's Bizzare Adventure • licking • Teachers • weird)
How much private info can a thief glean from a stolen smart phone? We investigate
- Dale Roll
Nov 5, 2018
Our resident scam investigator turns criminal to see how much information he can steal from a stranger’s smart phone.
- Japan
- (COK • crime • experiment • Go Hattori • identity theft • scams • Smartphones • SNOJ)
Shibuya Behavior game goes behind the wheel of a revenge-bent compact truck on Japanese Halloween
- Master Blaster
Nov 3, 2018
A game to remind us about the true spirit of the holiday: bloody revenge.
- Japan
- (crime • halloween • Shibuya • Shibuya Behavior • Shibuya Halloween • video games • werd)
High school boy in Kobe shows his love for older woman by spreading his poo on her bicycle
- Casey Baseel
Nov 2, 2018
An important reminder to always heed the old advice, “When you want to tell her how you really feel, don’t, for the love of God, tell her with poo.”
Seven arrests, restaurant fire occur during Tokyo’s Halloween night Shibuya street party
- Casey Baseel
Nov 2, 2018
Scary sights, and not because of any ghosts or goblins.
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