15+ hour, 57+ min ago   (202+ words) Japan Today The National Police Agency plans to use generative AI to quickly identify social media posts that pose a high risk of leading to crime and individuals becoming radicalized. Good idea or not? Stay Connected Wherever You Travel Enjoy…...

16+ hour, 10+ min ago   (602+ words) Nawee Changpirom has spent years working to rescue trafficked wildlife in Thailand, but even he can sometimes hardly believe the creatures he has found: leopards, hornbills, and once an anteater. "We even found living corals hidden in a ceiling," he…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (339+ words) An 84-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly beating an 80-year-old man to death with a rod in the town of Yakushima, Kagoshima Prefecture. According to the police, Takenari Baba is accused of killing Yoshifumi Yamazaki, a carpenter, at around…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (380+ words) Prosecutors in Okayama have suspended a male prosecution clerk in his 50s for six months for taking home copies of images of victims in voyeuristic filming cases. The Okayama District Public Prosecutors Office said the images had been kept as records,…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (271+ words) A woman made an unsuccessful attempt to evade police on Wednesday, bumping into three police cars and driving for about 10 kilometers on the wrong side of a highway in Chiba Prefecture, police said. On a street in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward,…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago   (266+ words) A 22-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of assault for allegedly kicking her 2-year-old son, who died after being assaulted by her boyfriend in Yokohama, police said Wednesday. The boy had multiple subcutaneous bruises on his body, and the…...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago   (258+ words) Three Nepalese nationals were arrested Tuesday in connection with the killing of a Nepalese vocational school student who was found dead in August in a river in the Tenjin district of the southwestern Japanese city of Fukuoka, police said. The…...

6+ day, 15+ hour ago   (153+ words) Police in Sapporo have arrested a a 45-year-old unemployed man on suspicion of assaulting his wife who is in her 40s. Police said the man is accused of punching his wife in the face and kicking her in the abdomen at…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (459+ words) The family of a three-year-old girl who died of heatstroke after being left behind on a preschool bus in Makinohara City, Shizuoka Prefecture, in 2022, gathered at the bus parking lot on Saturday to mourn her death. On September 5, 2022, China Kawamoto,…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (174+ words) Police in Tokyo have arrested a 22-year-old Chinese university student on suspicion of robbery resulting in injury. The incident occurred in Tokyo’s Ikebukuro district at around 8:30 p.m. on June 10, Kyodo News reported. Two men snatched a bag containing about 8 million…...