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Police officer cleared of indecency charges after riding train with pants’ zipper open

Master Blaster
Sep 3, 2018
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Tokyo High Court ruled the defendant wasn’t exposing self, just flying low.

Japan
(Chiba • crime • police • public indecency • trains • zipper)

Tochigi man arrested for shoplifting animals from hardware store to feed to his cat

Master Blaster
Sep 2, 2018

Suspect’s pet must have been a finicky feline to need to eat exotic prey like parakeets and hamsters.

Japan
(cats • crime • hamsters • home improvement center • parakeets • pets • shoplifting • Tochigi)

American traveler caught peeing on sleeping Japanese businessman during flight to Tokyo

Casey Baseel
Aug 22, 2018

Abuse of the complimentary alcohol service leads to a rude, wet awakening.

Japan, USA
(airplanes • COK • crazy • crime • drunk • gross • Narita Airport • travel)

Is it legal to wear a facekini on the streets of Tokyo? Mr. Sato asks Tokyo Metropolitan Police

Casey Baseel
Aug 22, 2018

Eye-catching, face-obscuring fashion from China protects your skin from harsh UV rays, makes you look like a crazed criminal.

Japan
(COK • crazy • crime • facekini • fashion • funny • Mr. Sato • SNOJ • weird)

Japanese Internet sad to see the word “chikan” becoming commonly used in English

Casey Baseel
Aug 17, 2018

The country was proud when “emoji” and “anime” became part of English-speakers’ vocabulary. But when the British government uses the Japanese word for “train gropers?” Not so much.

Europe, Japan
(chikan • crime • Japanese language • language • linguistics • trains • travel • U.K.)

Japanese educator embezzled $69,200 over four years to fund mobile game microtransactions

Koh Ruide
Aug 6, 2018

Mobile games sure are fun, but that’s no reason to steal money meant for education.

Japan
(crime • embezzlement • microtransactions • mobile game • money • theft • university)

Police in Japan looking for suspect who threw octopus at condominium over and over for one hour

Casey Baseel
Aug 2, 2018

Full marks for persistence and weirdness, but it’s still a crime.

Japan
(COK • crazy • crime • octopus • Sapporo • weird)

Aspiring Canadian cosplayer living in Tokyo arrested for immigration fraud sham marriage

Casey Baseel
Aug 1, 2018

Approached Japanese man she met at cosplay event and offered to pay him to be her husband for visa purposes.

Japan
(canada • COK • cosplay • crime • foreigners in Japan • immigration • Lolita fashion • marriage)

Japanese deliveryman delivers beating and justice to knife-wielding criminal in Tokyo【Video】

Casey Baseel
Jul 30, 2018

After suspect steals police officer’s weapon and turns it against him, employee of company with cute cat mascot joins fight on streets of Tokyo.

Japan
(crazy • crime • delivery • funny • scary • Tokyo • video • Yamato Transport)

Man released on drug charges because police wouldn’t let him use the toilet

Master Blaster
Jul 30, 2018

Officers found in violation of our inalienable right to go potty.

Japan
(coercion • crime • Drugs • law • police • Saitama • stimulants • toilet)

Japanese police make third arrest in connection with Love Live! anime manhole vandalism spree

Casey Baseel
Jul 26, 2018

Officers establish connection with one other vandal, show there’s nowhere for law-breaking otaku to hide.

Japan
(anime • crime • Idols • love live • Love Live Sunshine!! • manhole covers • Numazu • otaku • vandalism)

Japan executes six Aum Shinrikyo cultists, bringing hanging total to 13 this month

Casey Baseel
Jul 26, 2018

Number of executions now equals that of Tokyo subway gas attack deaths.

Japan
(Aum Shinrikyo • crime • cults • execution • Shoko Asahara • terrorism • Tokyo sarin gas attack • Tokyo subway gas attack)

McDonald’s officially reprimanded by Japanese government for misleading “roast beef” ads

Casey Baseel
Jul 26, 2018

The meat in the 4.9-million Tokyo Roast Beef Burgers and Muffins McDonald’s sold wasn’t quite what people were expecting from their commercials.

Japan
(ads • crime • fast food • food • McDonald's • roast beef • scandal • Tokyo Roast Beef)

Tokyo police arrest teen for having knife 2mm too long, released because type of knife mistaken

Master Blaster
Jul 25, 2018

You call that a kiridashi knife? Seriously, I can’t tell.

Japan
(crime • kiridashi knife • knives • Kodaira • Tokyo)

Hokkaido woman arrested for stealing 1.9 million yen from convenience store in broad daylight

Master Blaster
Jul 23, 2018

Bold but non-violent robbery says a lot about the way convenience stores operate.

Japan
(Aichi • convenience store • crime • Hokkaido • robbery)

Naked Japanese man arrested at restaurant, has kind of an understandable excuse

Casey Baseel
Jul 19, 2018

All-nude shopping and dining excursion was planned for his comfort, not so much other people’s.

Japan
(crazy • crime • gross • heat • hot • weird)

Man arrested for pretending to be blind so he could grope woman’s chest in Tokyo

Casey Baseel
Jul 10, 2018

M.O. shows groper was actually looking to get both an eyeful and a handful.

Japan
(blind • chikan • crime • gropers • pervert • weird)

Japanese cult leader behind Tokyo subway sarin gas attack executed

Casey Baseel
Jul 6, 2018

Aum Shinrikyo founder, three other members hanged 23 years after deadly subway attack, more executions likely to follow.

Japan
(Aum Shinrikyo • crime • cults • execution • Shoko Asahara • terrorism • Tokyo sarin gas attack • Tokyo subway attack)

“Uncle Nipples” being held in connection with recent nipple rubbing incident

Master Blaster
Jul 6, 2018

Former internet meme returns to the spotlight and appears as fond of his own areolae as ever.

Japan
(crazy • crime • Kansai • trains • weird)

All Japan Railway Tokyo trains to finally get security cameras starting this summer

Casey Baseel
Jul 4, 2018

Decision comes following Shinkansen slashing, but hopefully will also curb train groping.

Japan
(chikan • COK • crime • East Japan Railway • Japan Raiway • JR • JR East • shinkansen • train gropers • trains • travel)

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