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Japanese cram school gives students permission to smash window, break into building on test day
- Casey Baseel
Jan 11, 2018 - Tweet
Also tells would-be burglars how long they’ll have until the cops show up in crazy display of educational commitment.
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Tokyo man arrested for forcibly tattooing his initials into the butt of a maid cafe employee
- Scott Wilson
Jan 6, 2018
He wasn’t just some crazed fan either.
Japanese arcade owner arrested for allegedly rigging crane games to be unwinnable
- Casey Baseel
Dec 26, 2017
Japan’s first-ever crane game fraud investigation claims arcades used secret setting so prizes could only be won in employee demonstrations.
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Tokyo taxi driver violently assaulted by Tokyo taxi company president
- Casey Baseel
Dec 23, 2017
Professional courtesy takes a back seat in shoe-throwing street fight.
Japanese police officer pursues, pulls over Lamborghini supercar…while on a bicycle【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Dec 22, 2017
573 Italian horsepower vs. two legs of a Japanese cop.
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- (bicycles • cars • cool • crime • funny • Lamborghini • police officers • video)
Otaku woman in Japan finds herself target of strange fake shoplifting scam, netizens urge caution
- Dale Roll
Dec 20, 2017
Never let anyone you don’t know look through your bag, regardless of where you are.
Police searching for man wearing nothing but an orange-pink bra
- Master Blaster
Dec 18, 2017
To arrest him. Not because they’re, you know, lonely or something.
- Japan
- (bra • crime • funny • Musashimurayama • police warning • public indecency • Tokyo)
Osaka University professor: “The prince from Snow White is a sex offender”
- Master Blaster
Dec 14, 2017
Are these stories teaching boys that it’s okay to go around kissing sleeping women?
- Japan
- (crime • ethics • fairy tales • Kazue Muta • Osaka University • sexual assault • Sleeping Beauty • Snow White)
Tokyo proposes new law cracking down on requests for teens to share nude selfies online
- Casey Baseel
Dec 14, 2017
Though it kind of seems like this should have been illegal already.
Wakayama man tries to woo woman by cutting her brakes
- Master Blaster
Dec 8, 2017
Sure, we all know that deceit and sabotage are the fastest ways to a woman’s heart, but this was over the line.
Man in Japan breaks through his own apartment floor to attack woman’s TV
- Casey Baseel
Dec 7, 2017
Used opening to launch attack with nearly four-foot-long piece of lumber.
Japanese high school volleyball player beaten by coach, teammates for violating no-dating rule
- Casey Baseel
Dec 2, 2017
Coach retains job, school says it does not think attacks by other students constituted bullying.
- Japan
- (assault • crime • relationships • romance • scandal • schools • sports • teens • volleyball • youth)
Japanese woman arrested after stealing 90,000 yen worth of anime from live-in boyfriend
- Casey Baseel
Nov 29, 2017
It’s nice to have a partner who values your hobby, but not like this.
Over half a million uncensored porn DVDs seized by Tokyo police in Japan’s largest raid ever
- Casey Baseel
Nov 29, 2017
Massive-busted actresses’ films presumably part of massive bust in Shinjuku.
Man in Osaka lures housecat into street with food before shooting at it with BB gun【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Nov 27, 2017
Owner asks for Internet’s help in tracking down man behind drive-by attack.
Money-less Japanese diner offered chance to pay later, phones police himself
- Richard Simmonds
Nov 24, 2017
When store manager refuses to call the cops, man who can’t pay for his meal does it for him.
Japanese photographer’s sage advice highlights the hidden dangers female cosplayers face
- Koh Ruide
Nov 23, 2017
Be very careful when it’s just you and the photographer in a solo photo shoot.
- Japan
- (cosplay • cosplayers • crime • photographers • photography • scary)
Creator of Rurouni Kenshin anime/manga admits to possession of child pornography
- Casey Baseel
Nov 22, 2017
Nobuhiro Watsuki tells police “I liked girls between the ages of upper elementary school students to about the second year of junior high.”
- Japan
- (anime • crime • manga • Nobuhiro Nishiwaki • Nobuhiro Watsuki • Rurouni Kenshin • scandal)
Japanese politician apologizes for saying serial killer was “heavily influenced by anime”
- Casey Baseel
Nov 11, 2017
House of Councilors member made comment following discovery of nine dismembered bodies.
Osaka man arrested after sharing futon with dead girlfriend’s body for five nights
- Casey Baseel
Nov 11, 2017
”I didn’t know what to do,” says suspect of his unwise decision.
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