Tokyo police arrested a 47-year-old man on Saturday on suspicion of killing a 29-year-old woman in an apartment in Tokyo's Roppongi district in 2018. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/04/25/japan/crime-legal/arrest-roppongi-tokyo-murder/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #nobuakitakahashi #japanesepolice #malaysia #tokyo

Kyoto police are warning the public about misinformation spreading on social media regarding the high-profile case in which an 11-year-old boy was found dead and his 37-year-old father was arrested this month. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/04/25/japan/crime-legal/yuki-adachi-misinformation-police-kyoto/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration plans to add firing squads, electrocution and gas asphyxiation as alternative methods of executing people convicted of the gravest federal crimes. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/04/25/world/crime-legal/us-firing-squads-electrocution-gassing-execution/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #crimelegal #capitalpunishment #us #donaldtrump #prisons

Police in Fukuoka Prefecture have arrested a 30-year-old mother on suspicion of murdering her 4-year-old daughter at a mother-child support facility. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/04/24/japan/crime-legal/mother-daughter-facility-murder/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #fukuoka #parenthood #children

A U.S. Army soldier has been charged with using classified information about the timing of the capture of then-Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to make more than $400,000 trading on Polymarket's prediction market. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/04/24/world/crime-legal/us-soldier-polymarket-classified-data/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #crimelegal #polymarket #us #venezuela #nicolasmaduro

A district court in southwestern Japan has dismissed a claim for damages by people with disabilities who said that the unmanned operations of stations by Kyushu Railway violated their freedom of movement. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/04/24/japan/crime-legal/oita-court-rejection-disability-unmanned-stations/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #oita #japanesecourts #rail #jr #jrkyushu #disability #barrierfree

The older sister of a former death-row inmate has reiterated her criticism of a planned revamp of Japan's retrial system, particularly over a proposed restriction on the use of newly disclosed evidence. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/04/24/japan/crime-legal/iwao-hakamata-sister-retrial-review/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesecourts #iwaohakamata #hidekohakamata

Japan's organized criminal group ranks fell to a record low in 2025 amid a shift in the criminal landscape that has seen the rise of loosely organized "tokuryū" crime groups. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/04/23/japan/crime-legal/organized-crime-figure-npa/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #npa #japanesepolice #organizedcrime #fraud #yamibaito #yakuza

A district attorney in the U.S. state of Wisconsin has indicted a Japanese researcher for adding chemicals to a coworker's water bottle, according to U.S. media reports. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/04/23/japan/crime-legal/japanese-scientist-wisconsin-arrest/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal

Employees on loan to Toyota from three major Japanese nonlife insurance companies have taken out information from the automaker without permission. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/04/23/japan/crime-legal/nonlife-insurance-toyota-information/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #toyota #insurance #tokiomarine #mitsuisumitomoinsurance #aioinissaydowa #fsa