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Foreign tourist arrested in Japan for striking convenience store clerk over 3-yen bag altercation

Casey Baseel
Feb 5, 2025
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There were definitely better ways to handle this.

Japan
(COK • convenience stores • crime • plastic bags • self-checkout • self-checkout registers)

Kyoto Animation arsonist withdraws appeal, clearing death sentence to proceed

Casey Baseel
Jan 29, 2025

Four and a half years after fire that killed 36 people, trial comes to an official close.

Japan
(anime • arson • crime • Kyoto Animation • Kyoto Animation arson attack)

71-year-old Japanese man who “wanted to look cool” robbed 63 houses, treated strangers to sushi

Casey Baseel
Jan 28, 2025

Coolness plan included robbing a 91-year-old woman and treating whole restaurants to expensive sushi.

Japan
(burglary • crazy • crime • robbery • sushi • weird)

Sexy AI-generated Evangelion, Yu-Gi-Oh art sales lead to copyright infringement charges in Japan

Casey Baseel
Jan 27, 2025

Illegal posters also used AI to make images of older and obscure characters to appeal to fans with vintage tastes.

Japan
(AI • AI art • anime • COK • crime • Evangelion • generative AI • manga • video • Yu-Gi-Oh!)

Man kicks bunny to death on Japan’s Rabbit Island, may have killed as many as 77 others

Casey Baseel
Jan 23, 2025

Police arrest man who apparently traveled half-way across the country to kill a rabbit with his foot.

Japan
(animals • bunnies • COK • crazy • crime • Okunoshima • Rabbit Island)

Osaka woman causes 8 separate traffic accidents in 35 minutes

Master Blaster
Jan 23, 2025

Suspect claims she wasn’t driving dangerously and wasn’t driving.

Japan
(crazy • crime • hit-and-run • Osaka • police • Shin-Midosuji • traffic accidents • weird)

Man who stole two packs of ground beef tracked by police for about 1,000 kilometers across Japan

Master Blaster
Dec 30, 2024

The law’s arm really is long!

Japan
(Aichi • beef • Chita • crime • Hokkaido • investigation • police • Sapporo • shoplifting)

Foreign resident of Japan sentenced to eight months in prison for vandalizing Tokyo shrine

Casey Baseel
Dec 27, 2024

Sentence handed down to 29-year-old Chinese man for spray-painting Yasukuni Shrine.

Japan
(COK • crime • foreigners in Japan • shrines • vandalism • Yasukuni Shrine)

Japanese man arrested for fraud after creating female AI-image persona to sell dating advice【Vid】

Elliot Hale
Dec 14, 2024

One man’s virtual avatar shows that online fantasy can have real-life consequences.

Japan
(AI • beautiful women • COK • crime • fraud • social media)

Smoking marijuana is now illegal in Japan, can get you 7 years in prison

Casey Baseel
Dec 13, 2024

New Cannabis Control Act rules loosen some restrictions while adding a new one.

Japan
(cannabis • Cannabis Control Act • COK • crime • Drugs • marijuana • medicine • society)

Japanese city paints well-known prostitution street bright yellow, adds fish art【Video】

Casey Baseel
Dec 11, 2024

Osaka thinks it has a bright idea to combat tachinbo.

Japan
(COK • crime • Osaka • society • tachinbo • video • weird)

“I just wanted her to see my T-back” doesn’t save Japanese man from being arrested for exposing butt

Casey Baseel
Dec 2, 2024

Thin strip of cloth is a thin excuse in the eyes of the law.

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

Yakuza family speaks out against rise in organized crime

Master Blaster
Nov 28, 2024

Not their kind of organized crime, the bad kind.

Japan
(COK • crime • fraud • Organized crime • social media • society • weird • yakuza • yami baito • yamibaito)

Possessing Harry Potter’s Sword of Godric Gryffindor is now illegal in Japan

Casey Baseel
Nov 28, 2024

Warner Bros. Studio Tour Tokyo souvenir replica recalled after warning from muggle law enforcement.

Japan
(crazy • crime • Firearm and Sword Control Law • Firearm and Sword Possession Control Law • Gryffindor • Harry Potter • swords • Warner Bros. Studio Tour Tokyo • weird)

Man with snake face tattoo arrested for assault, neighbors shocked he would do such a thing【Vid】

Master Blaster
Nov 26, 2024

You shouldn’t judge a book by its cover… unless a snake is tattooed on it.

Japan
(convenience stores • crazy • crime • tattoos • Tokyo • video • weird)

Kyoto green onion theft victim becomes Kyoto green onion thief

Casey Baseel
Nov 25, 2024

Prosecutors seeking jail time for theft of hundreds of kilos of Kujo negi.

Japan
(COK • crazy • crime • food • green onion • negi • theft • weird)

Nara man arrested for burying mother in his cemetery plot by himself

Master Blaster
Nov 22, 2024

You don’t have to abandon a body to legally abandon it.

Japan
(abandoning a corpse • cemeteries • cremation • crime • death • graves • law • Nara)

American jackass tourist arrested after carving name into gate at Tokyo’s Meiji Shrine【Video】

Casey Baseel
Nov 14, 2024

Cops arrest senior citizen who vandalized shrine one day after arriving in Japan with family.

Japan
(crime • Meiji Jingu • Meiji Shrine • shrines • temples • vandalism • video)

Japanese police arrest four foreign residents on charges of stealing over 100 cars

SoraNews24
Nov 13, 2024

Thefts took place across five prefectures in east Japan.

Japan
(cars • crazy • crime • theft)

Foreign man arrested for grabbing former AKB48 idol on Tokyo street, forcing her to ground

Casey Baseel
Oct 29, 2024

Original AKB48 member was in Shibuya for book launch event.

Japan
(AKB48 • COK • crime • Haruna Kojima • idol singers • Idols)

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