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Osaka man arrested for selling colorized version of the original Godzilla from 1954

• Master Blaster
  Jun 19, 2025
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Color me surprised!

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• Japan
• (AI • bootleg DVD • cinema • colorization • copyright • expiry • film • Godzilla • Ishiro Honda • law • movies • Toho)

Hokkaido police refuse to acknowledge theft that really seems like a theft

• Master Blaster
  Jun 13, 2025

Unfortunately, not technically being a theft won’t bring the victim’s car back.

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• Japan
• (crazy • crime • fraud • Hokkaido • law • police • theft • weird)

“Bumping men” are a uniquely Japanese class of criminals that are hard to deal with

• Master Blaster
  Jun 4, 2025

This peculiar Japanese crime leaves its victims wondering what to do.

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• Japan
• (assault • bumping men • butsukari otoko • COK • crime • law • society)

Fukuoka woman arrested for drunk bicycle riding

• Master Blaster
  Jun 2, 2025

It’s a more serious crime than you may think.

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• Japan
• (alcohol • bicycles • COK • crime • cycling • drunk driving • DUI • Fukuoka • law)

Saitama women arrested for dueling

• Master Blaster
  May 28, 2025

They demanded satisfaction but got busted instead.

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • crime • duel • dueling • law • Saitama • teenagers • weird)

Four yakuza members arrested for having office too close to library

• Master Blaster
  May 18, 2025

This time, the yakuza have gone too far… in the direction of a library.

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• Japan
• (Boryokudan Countermeasures Law • Botaiho • crime • designated violence groups • law • Organized crime • Organized Crime Exclusion Ordinances • shitei boryokudan • weird • yakuza)

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.

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

Japanese Prime Minister once criticized deploying military to fight Godzilla

• Master Blaster
  Nov 5, 2024

There are tricky legal hurdles when fighting kaiju.

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• Japan
• (Godzilla • law • politics • SDF • self defense force • Shigeru Ishiba • use of force • use of weapons)

Australian sentenced to prison, judges unconvinced he said “Go to a door” not “This is a robbery”

• Master Blaster
  Oct 21, 2024

The “soramimi defense” fails to hold up in court.

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• Japan
• (assault • Australia • crime • English • Japanese • language • law • prison • robbery • Soramimi Hour • Tokyo • Tokyo District Court • trespassing)

Posthumous divorce on the rise in Japan as a way to distance oneself from in-laws

• Master Blaster
  Sep 5, 2024

Tell your late spouse’s family how you really feel. Tell them with a divorce.

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• Japan
• (death • divorce • family • family law • in-laws • law • posthumous divorce • society • weird)

Gyoza no Ohsho president’s murder trial mulling not letting average citizens become judges

• Master Blaster
  Aug 25, 2024

Yes, that’s a thing they do in Japan.

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• Japan
• (courts • Gyoza No Ohsho • jury • Kyoto • law • lay judge • murder)

Kanagawa woman arrested for calling police 1,200 times in 8 days, saying “Merry Christmas, Die!”

• Master Blaster
  May 22, 2024

I think she’s confusing Christmas with Easter.

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• Japan
• (Christmas • crime • Kanagawa • law • obstruction of business • phone calls • police)

Can a Japanese lawyer help stop a neighbor from getting our reporter’s bike all wet?

• Master Blaster
  Jul 14, 2023

There ought to be a crime.

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• Japan
• (apartments • bicycles • crime • law • lawyers • Living in Japan • parking • Yuichiro Wasai)

If the new bicycle helmet rule isn’t mandatory, are there penalties for not following it?

• Dale Roll
  Apr 13, 2023

We asked a lawyer to find out!

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• Japan
• (bicycles • cycling • helmets • Japanese law • law • lawyer • legal • riding bicycles • safety)

Why do people spend so long in jail without going to trial in Japan?

• Master Blaster
  Jan 24, 2023

It’s the land of serial arresting.

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• Japan
• (Chiba • crime • detention • Ibaraki • jail • law • re-arrest • saitaiho • Saitama)

Yakuza may be blocked from using all expressways in Japan within the decade

• Master Blaster
  Dec 9, 2022

One of many modern conveniences evaporating on organized crime.

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• Japan
• (Driving in Japan • ETC • expressways • law • Organized crime • Organized Crime Exclusion Ordinances • toll roads • yakuza)

Government declaration that ‘miso’ made since 1950s can’t legally be called ‘miso’ sparks debate

• Katie Pask
  Nov 8, 2022

The decision incensed netizens around the country, with 2chan’s founder even getting involved.

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• Japan
• (2channel • Barley miso • culture • Ehime • food • government • law • Miso • miso soup • Uwajima)

Movie about Japan’s file sharing pioneer Winny coming in March 2023

• Master Blaster
  Oct 11, 2022

A story of innovation lost.

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• Japan
• (copyright infringement • file sharing • internet • Isamu Kaneko • law • movies • P2P • Winny)

Sushi chef drops knives on the train, causes panic and delays

• Master Blaster
  Aug 30, 2022

You should never take your work home with you.

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• Japan
• (emergency • Keikyu Airport Line • law • Ota • sushi • Tokyo • trains)

Hotel guest who boiled crabs in room’s kettle angry to have to pay for damages

• Master Blaster
  May 3, 2022

Legal dispute has everyone feeling crabby.

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• Japan
• (cooking • crabs • electric kettle • food • hotels • law)

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