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Sapporo supermarket’s women’s restroom becomes unusually popular with guys last Sunday night

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 11, 2018
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Female employee finds two different men camped out in the ladies’ restroom in roughly an hour.

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• Japan
• (bathrooms • crime • restrooms • Sapporo • Toilets • weird)

Police in Japan arrest woman on suspicion of literal ass-kicking

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 9, 2018

Rage-filled 27-year-old mobile phone shopper denies the kicking part, though.

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

Kamen Rider, one of Japan’s greatest heroes, arrested for groping woman’s breasts in Tokyo suburb

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 7, 2018

Actor’s arrest parallels his character’s story arc, and also has elements from Cinderella.

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• Japan
• (crazy • crime • gropers • Kamen Rider • tokusatsu • weird)

Drunken salaryman’s solution to barely missing the last train: Ride on the outside of it

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 4, 2018

Kobe police fail to appreciate the capacity-boosting innovation.

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • crime • drunks • Kobe • trains • weird)

Japanese company makes virtual shadow boyfriends to help protect women who live alone【Videos】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 31, 2018

Silhouettes of karate fighters, bodybuilders, and domestically dedicated dudes make would-be criminals think you’ve got a live-in boyfriend.

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• Japan
• (cool • crime • shadows • technology • video)

The simplest, most direct way to protect your umbrella from being stolen in Japan

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 22, 2018

Sometimes, a not-so-gentle reminder is all it takes to make sure your belongings continue to be yours.

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• Japan
• (crime • Japanese language • life hacks • linguistics • stealing • theft • umbrellas)

Knife-wielding man at Shinjuku Station arrested by Tokyo police

• Oona McGee
  Mar 22, 2018

Commuters say they feared for their lives during the incident.

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• Japan
• (arrests • crime • news • police • shinjuku • Shinjuku Station • Tokyo)

Three women arrested for smuggling 20 pounds of gold down their bras at Hokkaido airport

• Master Blaster
  Mar 21, 2018

Hardly the last place someone would look.

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• Japan, Taiwan
• (crime • gold • Hakodate • Hokkaido • smuggling)

23-year-old Tokyo policewoman falls in movie-style love with yakuza member, real life ensues

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 20, 2018

He wasn’t arrested for theft, but he stole her heart, and she gave him even more in return.

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• Japan
• (crazy • crime • police • romance • shinjuku • Tokyo • weird • yakuza)

Conveyor belt sushi chain where foreigner filmed GoPro video considers pressing criminal charges

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 16, 2018

YouTube hit has restaurant’s owners seeing red, and not because of any mouth-watering maguro tuna.

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• Japan
• (controversy • Conveyor belt sushi • crime • revolving sushi • sushi • Sushiro • viral video • YouTubers)

Three schoolgirls indicted following “free all-you-can-touch-breasts” stunt in Tokyo

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 14, 2018

Cops crack down on public feel-copping, also charge two men in get-rich-quick-with-boobs scheme.

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• Japan
• (crazy • crime • schoolgirls • Shibuya • weird)

Creator of Rurouni Kenshin manga/anime avoids jail time in child pornography possession case

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 10, 2018

Tokyo court orders manga artist to pay startlingly small fine for possession of nude depictions of girls no older than 15.

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• (anime • crime • manga • Nobuhiro Nishiwaki • Nobuhiro Watsuki • Rurouni Kenshin • scandal)

How safe is Japan? New interactive map reveals reports of crime around the country

• Oona McGee
  Mar 9, 2018

Now you can find out if there are any upskirt photographers, bag-snatchers, swindlers, or burglars in your area.

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• Japan
• (chikan • crime • criminals • maps • police • safety)

Female convenience store clerk accidentally fends off robber in Tokyo with two simple words

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 9, 2018

24-year-old cashier literally wasn’t in the mood for any antics.

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• Japan
• (COK • convenience stores • crime • funny • Japanese language • linguistics • robbery • weird)

Board of education suspends Japanese teacher who stockpiled 750 pairs of panties at school

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 7, 2018

High school educator might sound like a pantie thief, but it turns out he was actually a wannabe pantie merchant.

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• Japan
• (crazy • crime • lingerie • panties • schools • Teachers • weird)

Japan’s angriest old man takes time out of busy day to yell at young driver, gets arrested【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 6, 2018

Rural resident doesn’t have time for slow driver, somehow does have time to stop and call him a dumbass.

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• (cars • crazy • crime • driving • elderly • seniors • video)

Harsh retribution for school bullies using Japanese law suggested on Twitter, but it’ll take time

• Master Blaster
  Mar 2, 2018

They say revenge is a dish best served cold, and it doesn’t get much colder than this.

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• Japan
• (bullying • crime • kids • law • legal action • revenge • society • statute of limitations • twitter)

Is it a crime to ditch a bad date and leave them with the bill? Japanese man finds out

• Dale Roll
  Mar 1, 2018

After fleeing a restaurant when a women he met online wasn’t who he thought she was, one man was surprised to get a call from the police.

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• Japan
• (crime • dating • Internet dating • law • online dating • relationships • romance • weird)

Cosplaying go-kart driver strikes bicyclist in hit-and-run collision in Akihabara

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 26, 2018

Police track down, arrest Taiwanese national. Mario presumed innocent.

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• Japan
• (accident • Akihabara • cars • cosplay • crime • go-karts • Mario Kart • nintendo • Super Mario • weird)

Miyagi man arrested for calling employment office 159 times in a row without saying a single word

• Master Blaster
  Feb 26, 2018

You’ll be comforted to know that he had a good reason, however.

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• (crime • employment • funny • Hello Work • phones • shyness • unemployment • weird)

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