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Nagasaki: Ex-post office head suspected in ¥1 billion swindle Special Reports Husband claimed that the woman and his wife, 35, started having sex after meeting on the internet Coronavirus in Japan Nagasaki: Ex-post office head suspected in ¥1 billion swindle By Tokyo Reporter Staff on April 9, 2021 NAGASAKI (TR) – Japan Post Co. said on Tuesday that a former post office head in Nagasaki City is suspected of swindling dozens of people out of over 1 billion yen over a 25-year period. Accordin...

Aided by sleeping pills and social media, ex-Osaka teacher raped ‘more than 300’ men By Roland Shichijo on March 13, 2021 OSAKA (TR) – By the time Osaka police arrested Takahiro Hojo, 42, on suspicion of rape last year, investigators had used photographs seized in his residence in Osaka City to estimate that the number of victims in the case exceeded 100. During his trial, Hojo said that the actual figure far exceeded 100. “The number of victims was more than 300,” he told the Osaka ...

Chiba: 3 yakuza arrested for murder of man whose corpse found in cistern By Tokyo Reporter Staff on March 2, 2021 CHIBA (TR) – Chiba Prefectural Police have arrested three gang members over the alleged murder of a man whose corpse was found in a fire cistern in Inzai City last year, reports TBS News (Mar. 1). Last October, two members of the Sumiyoshi-kai, including Yoshiaki Mori (63), and Tadahisa Nakagami (49), a member of another gang, allegedly slashed the neck of Kosuke Miyauchi (46) in ...

news Man suspected of fatally stabbing woman in back arrested in western Japan The Mainichi © The Mainichi The Hyogo Prefectural Police headquarters (Mainichi) KOBE -- A 65-year-old man was arrested on Feb. 25 on suspicion of stabbing a female acquaintance to death in the city of Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, police said. Nishinomiya Police Station arrested the unemployed man, Masami Mizuno, on suspicion of murdering Megumi Nakamura, 57, a part-time employee from the city of...

Hyogo: Man, 65, accused of fatally stabbing girlfriend in Nishinomiya By Tokyo Reporter Staff on February 25, 2021 HYOGO (TR) – Hyogo Prefectural Police have arrested a 65-year-old man over the alleged fatal stabbing his girlfriend in Nishinomiya City, reports Jiji Press (Feb. 25). Between around 5:30 a.m. and 10:40 a.m. on Wednesday, Masami Mizuno, of no known occupation, is alleged to have repeatedly stabbed Megumi Nakamura, 57, in the back at his residence. Nakamura was transported to a ho...

There’s gangsters, and then there’s the yakuza. Japan’s organised criminals make the Mafia look like amateurs in comparison. Described by academics as being some of “the most sophisticated and wealthiest criminal organisations” in the world, yakuza syndicates like the Yamaguchi-gumi and the Sumiyoshi-kai are particularly fearsome, with their own unique rituals, code of honour, and intense brutality. Needless to say, yakuza bosses (known as oyabun, or family heads) aren’t the kind o...

Chiba police have arrested five persons, including a yakuza, over the alleged dumping of a corpse in Inzai City last year

Man arrested on suspicion of arson and attempted murder of disabled wife Feb. 6 06:00 am JST Feb. 6 | 06:40 am JST OSAKA Police in Osaka have arrested a 71-year-old man on suspicion of arson and attempting to kill his disabled 67-year-old wife. According to police, Toru Tokuno set fire to his two-story home in Sumiyoshi Ward early Wednesday morning while his wife was in bed, Sankei Shimbun reported. However, Tokuno’s wife woke up and managed to call 119. Unable to walk, she...

Asakura: Following Japanese Tattoo Master Horikazu December 21, 2020 | in Photography "Asakusa" is Ronin de Goedes visual diary of the time he spent following Horikazu, the traditional Japanese tattoo master in Tokyo. "In 2011, Ronin knocked on the door of the renowned tattooist Horikazu shodai. Hoping to meet the great man himself, he was dismayed to hear from Horikazu’s wife that he was terminally ill and couldn’t receive visitors. A shout stalled his dejected trudge away from the house: ...

Osaka opens facility for severe COVID-19 patients with SDF support Dec. 15, 2020 09:02 pm JST Dec. 23, 2020 | 12:06 am JST OSAKA The requested article has expired, and is no longer available. Any related articles, and user comments are shown below. © KYODO ©2021 GPlusMedia Inc. Dec. 15, 2020 04:52 pm JST While the SDF should be applauded for their help, in reality many of the soldiers and leadership are doing this reluctantly, ann...