Tokyo police have arrested a possible mastermind behind the robbery of a luxury watch store in central Tokyo in May. The suspect is an 18-year-old part-time worker.
A man who has come forward as a victim of sexual abuse by the founder of Japanese talent agency Johnny & Associates says he has met its new president and received an apology from him.
Mourners have visited the site of a care home for people with intellectual disabilities near Tokyo to remember the victims of a deadly stabbing rampage seven years ago.
Investigative sources say Kabuki actor Ichikawa Ennosuke told police that he and his parents had decided that he would tidy up the scene after the couple committed suicide.
The Japanese government plans to hold a conference for ministerial officials to study ways to prevent sexual abuse of children in culture, entertainment, sports and other fields.
A group of families in Japan who lost their school-age children to suicide has called on the government to create an independent process to probe the cause of such deaths. The goal they say is to put an end to further tragedies of this kind.
Tokyo police say a suspected Japanese phone scam group may have rotated its members and moved its base around in Cambodia to evade detection by authorities.
Sources say officials of the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics organizing committee and ad agency Dentsu, which were allegedly involved in bid-rigging, began making a list of companies to be assigned contracts in 2017, the year before bidding took place.
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