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Japan police find bullet marks near Abe assassination site
AP - Jul 13
Japanese police said Wednesday they have found a number of what they believe are bullet marks on a building near the site of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's assassination last week in western Japan, apparently from the first shot fired from a suspect's powerful homemade gun that narrowly missed Abe.
Abe murder suspect: mother sold land and donated money to religious group
NHK - Jul 12
Investigative sources say the suspect in the murder of former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo has told police that his mother sold land without family consent and donated the proceeds to a religious group.
Man turns himself to police, saying he killed woman in love hotel
Japan Today - Jul 12
Police in Tokyo on Monday arrested a 37-year-old man on suspicion of killing an 18-year-old woman in a love hotel.
70-year-old man arrested for beating 30-year-old woman to death with golf club
Japan Today - Jul 11
Police in Saitama have arrested a 70-year-old man on suspicion of killing a 30-year-old woman with whom he lived by beating her with a golf club.
Police: Abe died from loss of blood due to single bullet
NHK - Jul 09
Japanese police say former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo died from loss of blood after a bullet damaged an artery under his collarbone.
A devastating day for Japan | Remembering Abe-san
ONLY in JAPAN * GO - Jul 09
It's been a devastating 24 hours since former PM Abe was shot in Nara and like everyone in the country, I'm trying to come to grips with the loss.
Japan Supreme Court upholds ruling for damages in Ito Shiori rape case
NHK - Jul 09
Japan's Supreme Court has upheld a high court decision that a former TV reporter must pay damages to a journalist who says he raped her.
Married man arrested over murder of pregnant girlfriend
Japan Today - Jul 08
Police in Tokyo have arrested a 43-year-old married man on suspicion of killing his 37-year-old pregnant girlfriend at her apartment in March.
Court rules in favor of French man's wife over child custody rights
Kyodo - Jul 08
The Tokyo Family Court ruled Thursday that a Japanese woman who ran off with her children and refused to let her French husband see them has the rights to their custody, in a dispute which led French authorities to issue an international arrest warrant for the woman last year.
'Yu-Gi-Oh!' creator Kazuki Takahashi found dead
npr.org - Jul 08
Kazuki Takahashi, creator of the popular Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise, was found dead on Wednesday, according to Japan public broadcaster NHK and other media sources. He was 60 years old.
Japan introduces up to one-year jail time for cyberbullying
channelnewsasia.com - Jul 07
People found guilty of cyberbullying in Japan now face up to a year in prison under rules implemented on Thursday (Jul 7), which were toughened up after the suicide of a reality star who had been trolled online.
Apple tracking device found on police vehicle in central Japan
Japan Times - Jul 06
An Apple Inc. tracking device was found attached to an unmarked police vehicle in central Japan, leading to suspicions that a yakuza crime syndicate was responsible, investigative sources said Wednesday.
27-year-old woman indicted over murder of 3 daughters
Japan Today - Jul 06
Nagoya prosecutors on Tuesday indicted a 27-year-old woman for killing her three daughters aged 5, 3 and nine months, in February.
Doctor arrested for voyeurism after filming 40 students with pen-type camera
Japan Today - Jul 06
Police in Kyoto have arrested a 47-year-old dentist on suspicion of violating the prefecture’s public nuisance ordinance after he allegedly took voyeuristic images of a junior high school girl during a medical examination in Okayama last year.
Passenger arrested for breaking connecting door glass while fighting on train
Japan Today - Jul 05
Police in Tokyo have arrested a man in his 50s on suspicion of causing property damage after he broke the glass on a connecting door during an altercation with another man on a train operating on the Tokyu Den-en-toshi line.
Tokyo man arrested for putting brother’s skull out for recycling collection
soranews24.com - Jul 05
On 21 June workers at a recycling plant in Adachi, Tokyo were given a shock when, mixed in among the refuse that had arrived, they found a human skull and jaw bone.
