U.K. police say they have arrested two teenagers after the latest arson attack on sites including Jewish ones in London, bringing the number of arrests for six incidents to 15. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/04/21/world/crime-legal/uk-police-teens-jewish-site/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #crimelegal #uk #london #arson

Yūki Adachi, who admitted to killing his 11-year-old adopted son last week, had told others his son went missing before a schoolteacher called to say that the boy had not come to school, investigators say. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/04/20/japan/crime-legal/kyoto-boy-father/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #kyoto #socialmedia #children

British police say they are investigating possible Iran links to a series of arson attacks on Jewish targets in London. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/04/20/world/crime-legal/uk-iran-arson-jewish-targets/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #crimelegal #uk #iran #london #arson

The president of a Tokyo information technology company, who has been arrested for allegedly abandoning the body of a male executive, may have wiped up bloodstains left by the victim in the office. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/04/19/japan/crime-legal/it-firm-head-blood-in-office/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #tokyo #japanesepolice #linuxjapan #tech #mpd #akasaka #minatoward

A smartphone used by the father of an 11-year-old boy who was found dead has a web history of searching for ways to abandon a body, investigative sources said Sunday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/04/19/japan/crime-legal/kyoto-boy-father-smartphone/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #kyoto #nantan #japanesepolice #children

Six people in Kyiv were killed when a Russian-born man opened fire on passersby before barricading himself in a supermarket with hostages, where he was shot dead by police. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/04/19/world/crime-legal/kyiv-mass-shooting/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #crimelegal #ukraine #kyiv #massshootings #russia #russiaukrainewar #volodymyrzelenskyy

The Kyoto Prefectural Police believe that a public restroom is one of the locations where the father of the victim left the corpse. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/04/19/japan/crime-legal/kyoto-police-inspect-public-restroom/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #kyoto #nantan #japanesepolice #children

With Sunday marking seven years since a woman and her daughter were killed by a runaway car in Tokyo's Ikebukuro, the lead investigator on the case is urging people to remember the lessons learned from the incident. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/04/19/japan/crime-legal/ikebukuro-car-crash-seven-years-on/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #accidents #elderly #cars #kozoiizuka

The elder sister of former death-row inmate Iwao Hakamata, 90, who was acquitted in a high-profile retrial, on Saturday criticized the Justice Ministry's bill to reform the nation's retrial system. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/04/18/japan/crime-legal/hakamata-sister-retrial-system-protest/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #iwaohakamata #japanesecourts #falseconvictions #justiceministry #ldp

Tokyo police have arrested the president of Linux Japan, an information technology service provider in the capital, on suspicion of abandoning a body. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/04/18/japan/crime-legal/linux-president-arrested-body/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #tokyo #murder #japanesepolice