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Chiba hospital puts staff member on standby after controversial social media posts emerge
CHIBA (TR) – Chiba University Hospital has ordered a staff member to stay on standby at home after anonymous social media ...
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Head of commercial sex scout group suspected of violating employment law
TOKYO (TR) – As a part of crackdown on a large scouting group that recruits women through social media and introduces them to ...
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Japan scrambles to convert VHS tapes to digital formats
TOKYO (TR) – When a reporter for TV Asahi (Jan. 11) visited a company that provides dubs VHS tapes to digital formats, the ...
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Tokyo record cocaine seizure at Haneda Airport
According to police, the pair is believed to have swallowed dozens of pods of cocaine under duress from a drug trafficking ...
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Japanese fraud suspect arrested after return from Thailand
TOKYO (TR) – Tokyo Metropolitan Police last week arrested a 33-year-old man who fled Japan after participating in a fraud ...
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Osaka fraud suspect was living with 4 women before death in prison cell
The day before, police had arrested Nagano and four female suspects on suspicion of fraud. According to Fuji News Network, ...
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Korean suspect in Hosei hammer attack was ‘bullied and feeling frustrated’
TOKYO (TR) – A South Korean student suspected in an attack with a hammer that injured eight fellow students at the Machida City campus of Hosei University on Friday told police that she had been ...
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Masahiro Nakai apologizes over woman ‘trouble’
TOKYO (TR) – Masahiro Nakai, a former member of the boy band SMAP and television personality, apologized this week over ...
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Saitama police instructor found sleeping in woman’s house
SAITAMA (TR) – A 40-year-old police officer who serves as an instructor at the Saitama Prefectural Police Headquarters Police Academy was arrested earlier this week for breaking into an apartment in ...