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A 13-year-old Tokyo girl left alone at home one night ventures out and is raped by a man she doesn’t know. Yomiuri Weekly (May 4)…
There’s nothing quite like them, those “oases of the night” known in Japanese as “famiresu.” Clean, well-lit and open 24/7, the family restaurant is the…
From the end of March, JR East Japan and a consortium of railway companies in the Kanto and Kansai regions launched a joint campaign appealing…
“Generating poison gas. Don’t open.” Such was the notice on the bathroom door, posted on March 27 by a 27-year-old Kobe man testing a new…
The recent arrest of 28-year-old Toshiya Tsuji, accused of committing at least two break-in rapes in Saitama Prefecture, has shed light on the low awareness…
“If there’s anything you don’t understand, feel free to ask me,” smiles the veteran OL to the new company recruit. "Anything at all." It’s that…
“The other day, I ran into a friend. He told me two men had approached him in broad daylight. One sprayed some kind of tear…
Laughter is no joke to Kansai University Prof Yoji Kimura. He studies it, measures it, seeks to develop its health-giving potential. He is the inventor…
“We mailed you three explanatory flyers about the new terrestrial digital broadcasting system. Did you receive them?” the man asked. “Unless you have the work…