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Former Chiba police inspector pleads guilty to 2 rape charges
July 15 04:10 pm JST 8 Comments
A 46-year-old former police inspector pleaded guilty to two counts of rape at the opening session of his trial this week at the Chiba District Court. According to the indictment, Makoto Okada, who was assigned to the Chiba Prefectural Police’s Fourth Investigation Division, entered a woman’s home through an unlocked… READ
CRIME Newborn infant’s remains found at sewage plant in Kanagawa Prefecture
July 15 04:08 pm JST 9 Comments
The remains of a newborn baby boy have been found at a sewage plant in Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, police said Friday. According to police, the remains were found lodged against a metal grate at around 3:40 p.m. on Thursday by a plant worker who was checking the water flow, Kyodo… READ
CRIME Man gets 10 years for fatally scalding 3-year-old boy with hot water
July 15 06:15 am JST 35 Comments
A court on Friday sentenced a 25-year-old man to 10 years in prison for scalding his girlfriend's 3-year-old son to death with hot shower water at their apartment in Osaka Prefecture in August 2021. Prosecutors had charged Takumi Matsubara with murder and assault, seeking 18 years, but the Osaka
July 15 06:00 am JST 7 Comments
The upper half of a cat’s body has been found on a road in Kasukabe, Saitama Prefecture, police said Friday. According to police, the cat’s upper half was found by a pedestrian on the narrow road which runs through a residential area at around 7:30 a.m. Thursday, Kyodo News reported.… READ
CRIME Man who went on train knife rampage in 2021 gets 19 years in prison
July 14 04:33 pm JST 16 Comments
A man who went on a stabbing rampage on a train in 2021 was sentenced to 19 years in prison by the Tokyo District Court on Friday. According to the court ruling, Yusuke Tsushima, 37, attacked passengers on an Odakyu Electric Railway train at around 8:30 p.m. on Aug 6,… READ
CRIME 82-year-old man goes on trial for killing wife by pushing her in wheelchair into sea
July 14 06:25 am JST 22 Comments
An 82-year-old man went on trial this week, charged with killing his 79-year-old wife, who was in a wheelchair, by pushing her into the sea last year. Prosecutors told the Odawara branch of the Yokohama District Court that Hiroshi Fujiwara drove his wife Teruko to a pier in Oiso, Kanagawa… READ
CRIME Couple who left partially burned newborn baby on Shizuoka coastline indicted for murder
July 14 06:00 am JST 24 Comments
Prosecutors in Numazu, Shizuoka Prefecture, have indicted a 24-year-old woman and a 20-year-old man on a murder charge after they abandoned their newborn baby girl whose partially burned body was found along the coastline in May. Prosecutors say Kanna Asanuma and her boyfriend, Naoki Takami, both of no fixed address,… READ
CRIME Suspect arrested over death of man in car parking lot in Niigata Prefecture
July 13 04:25 pm JST 2 Comments
Police in Joetsu, Niigata Prefecture, have arrested a 70-year-old man on suspicion of killing a 62-year-old man who was found collapsed in the car parking lot of the apartment building where he lived. Police said Kazuo Ogura, a resident of Ueda City, Nagano Prefecture, is accused of killing Reiji
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