By now, I assume that the big gang rape incident at prestigious Kyoto University (link goes to news story in Japanese) is international news, and I would not like to go into the details of the incident. However, of interest to students of the media and society in Japan are the reasons that Kyoto University…
This story comes out of Chiba City… A 35 year old man, whom I can only assume is a bad teacher and advisor to the volleyball club at Mitsuwadai Junior High School in Chiba, beat up a 14 year old male student during a volleyball practice on March 8th. During practice, the teacher called out…
I really am looking for positive news to write about but this kind of randomly violent crime just keeps jumping out at me. If you’ve been to Osaka, you probably know the big Hep Five mall (with the big Ferris Wheel on top). At the North entrance to Hep Five, two guys approached a girl…
Another pop execution in Japan where the usual modus operandi is to execute first and notify the media later. The next of kin for the executed is also notified AFTER the execution and asked to come and take care of the remains and any funeral rites involved. Japan executed 15 in 2008, and has come…
I’ve been waiting for this story to hit national headlines because it’s been a big deal here in Kansai, but it’s another story that would be international news if it happened anywhere else. Here it’s local. I’ll give the story chronologically, and succinctly. A woman’s body was found in a cooler box at a moving…
The trial for the Junichi Yamamoto (formerly Tokitsukaze), head of the Sumo stable that ordered the “discipline” that resulted in the death of sixteen year old Sumo wrestler Takashi Saito is yet to be held. The three senior member of the stable that carried out the beatings that caused the death have been sentenced to…
A man (packing knives) parked his car near a police station and, when approached by a security guard confessed to the killings. Details have not yet been released, although the alternative news media sources (sometimes unreliablle, but often more reliable than some major news sources) are reporting that the man claimed his pet cat was…
… but not for the erroneous murder accusation. Mainichi.jp recently falsely accused a man of murder. Pension Bureau official Kenji Yoshihara was stabbed to death on November 18. His wife, Yasuko, was also critically injured in the attack. The attack is believed to be related to the murders of another former Pension Bureau official, Takehiko…
Mainichi, one of Japan’s news media giants published a story yesterday accusing a Japanese man of the murder of a former Health Ministry official from the Pension Bureau (an expert on the pension problem in Japan). Kenji Yoshihara and his wife Yasuko were attacked at their home in Tokyo on Tuesday, November 18th. The attacker…
Kazuyoshi Miura, facing charges of murder conspiracy in the death of his wife, was found dead of an apparent suicide in his jail cell in Los Angeles. Miura is accused of being involved in the shooting death of his wife Kazumi in Los Angeles in November 1981. Miura served some time in prison in Japan…
Briefly put, Hiroshi Nozaki recently arrested for killing a young Filipina woman has informed police of the whereabouts of the body of a 27 year old woman he killed in 1999. He had been arrested and served time in jail for the 1999 case, however since there was no body, he was put away for…
Hiroshi Nozaki got away with murder 9 years ago. He killed a Filipina woman, denied having killed her, and in the end was only sentenced to serve 3 and a half years for mutilation and disposal of a corpse. Because very little of the body was found, Saitama Prefecture police decided not to try the…