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.
A former president of a Japanese advertising agency has admitted bribing a former executive of the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics organizing committee.
A Tokyo Olympics executive has been arrested on suspicion of violating Japan's Anti-Monopoly Act. Sources say former deputy director of the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics Organizing Committee Mori Yasuo has admitted to involvement in rigging bids for test events.
The Philippine government is planning to deport the two remaining fraud suspects to Japan on Wednesday. The men are also suspected of being involved in a series of robberies in Japan.
The Japan Coast Guard says a body found in a Japanese cargo ship that sank last week in the Seto Inland Sea has been identified as that of the missing captain. One more crewmember remains unaccounted for.
Tokyo police have found that perpetrators who broke into a home in Komae City and killed a 90-year-old resident made off with three watches and a ring.
One of the arrested suspects in a burglary case in a Tokyo suburb has told police that he was afraid he would be ''purged'' if he talked to investigators.
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