A woman killed by a bear in Akita

On May 27th at 12:45PM, a 61 year old woman found dead in the woods near the Lake Tazawa in Akita.
According to the local police, she was attacked by a wild bear.
It is the first fatal accident for he year in Akita caused by a bear.


クマ襲撃か、６１歳女性死亡　仙北市田沢湖でタケノコ採り中
http://www.sakigake.jp/news/article/20170527AK0024/

Man made a hole on the floor to break into woman's room

A 51 year old man was arrested on on obscenity charges at Tsukuba, Ibaraki.
He broke into the woman's room from the ceiling of her bath room by making a hole in floor of his room.
He assaulted her with a stun gun and handcuffs when she came home, but hopefully she escaped.
He said that he moved into the room right above her room knowing that she is living at the room right below and it took ten days to make the hole.


床に穴を開け下の部屋の女性襲う　男を逮捕
http://www.news24.jp/articles/2015/10/28/07313344.html

A Nana Mizuki fan arrested for dumping 200kg of potato chips

A 25-year-old man, a fan of Nana Mizuki on June 10th was arrested for dumping 1,000 bags or 200kg of potato chips in a coppice in Hyogo.
Each bag come with an entry ticket for winning the chance to meet the one of the most popular voice actress at her concert.
He trashed potato chips taking out the tickets.
The potato chips found worth 300,000 yen.


ポテトチップス1000袋200キロ不法投棄！水樹奈々コンサート鑑賞・面会券欲しさの25歳男　―J-CASTテレビウォッチ
http://www.j-cast.com/tv/2014/06/11207293.html

Elementary school principal arrested for carrying drug

An 57-year-old elementary school principal in Kasuga City, Fukuoka was arrested for carrying packages of stimulant drug on May 9th.
Oya Elementary School plans to hold explanatory meeting for the arrest of the principal.


小学校長が覚醒剤の袋を数個所持　―YOMIURI ONLINE
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/national/20140509-OYT1T50147.html

70-year-old guy dead after stealing an underwear

Approximately 70-year-old male died from falling down from his bicycle being on the run after stealing an underwear.
He was found by a resident when trying to steal an underwear on the balcony at 4 am on Semtember 28th in Osaka City. He fell down after running away few metres. He once stood up but fell down again. He was dead two hours after transported to the hospital.
There was an female underwear in his bicycle basket.


【大阪変態事件簿】 下着を盗んだ70代男性　追いかけられて転んで死亡　―えび速
http://amaebi.net/archives/2096094.html


A man burned the city hall with petrol bombs

Man restrained on selling plaster casts of female genitalia

Stalking cases rose 36 percent

U.S. Forces officer became naked and urinated inside an internet cafe

A man with knife took 4 hostages at a Toyokawa Shinkin Bank

A man burned the city hall with petrol bombs

Takarazuka City Hall

A 63-year-old jobless man at 9:40 am on July 12th burned Takarazuka City Hall throwing two petrol bombs at a reception desk.
600 staffs and citizens evacuated from the building and 5 were injured.
The man arrested deposed that he lost his temper for receiving the demand letter of property tax he has been defaulted.
The office cancelled all of its business on July 12th.


火炎瓶で市役所ロビーが炎に ５人けが　―NHKニュース
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20130712/t10015994841000.html


Man restrained on selling plaster casts of female genitalia

Yabusoba, the famous traditional soba restaurant was destroyed in a fire

11 yo boy plunged into a train in Osaka

A man with knife took 4 hostages at a Toyokawa Shinkin Bank

Two thunderbolts killed ladies at park in Osaka

Man restrained on selling plaster casts of female genitalia

A fifty-year-old man in Shizuoka on June 27th was sent to the public prosecutor's office on Distribution of Obscene Objects selling plaster casts of female genitalia in internet auctions.
He sold plaster casts of approximately 80 women whom he met through online dating web site for from 1,500 to 20,000 yen each. He paid the models 20,000 yen at most.


女性器の石膏型販売で送検　「自分よりうまい人間いない」　―MSN産経ニュース
http://sankei.jp.msn.com/affairs/news/130627/crm13062715180006-n1.htm


Stalking cases rose 36 percent

Yabusoba, the famous traditional soba restaurant was destroyed in a fire

U.S. Forces officer became naked and urinated inside a internet cafe

A man with knife took 4 hostages at a Toyokawa Shinkin Bank

Family arrested for hiding a machine gun and grenades in their house

Stalking cases rose 36 percent

According to Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, 19,920 stalking cases were reported in Japan in 2012 increased by 36.3 percent from previous year. It was the highest number since 2000.
In addition, the number of domestic violence cases between partners were 43,950 increased by 28.0 percent. It has broken a record continuously nine years.


ストーカー過去最多＝ＤＶは４万件超す－「敷居低くなった」・警察庁　―時事ドットコム
http://www.jiji.com/jc/zc?k=201303/2013031400225


Yabusoba, the famous traditional soba restaurant was destroyed in a fire

11 yo boy plunged into a train in Osaka

Nuisance emailing is not prohibited in 33 prefectures

Where in Japan do you want to live? - SeikatsuGuide.com

Number of child abuse cases hit the record of 248 during the first half of 2012

Yabusoba, the famous traditional soba restaurant was destroyed in a fire

Kanda Yabusoba

At around 7:20PM on February 19th a fire broke out in Kanda, Tokyo destroying five buildings including Kanda Yabusoba.
The fire sight located approximately 500 metres southwest from Akihabara Station, was put out in two hours. The 40 people inside the traditional soba restaurant safely evacuated.
Yabusoba was established in 1880 in Meiji era. The architecture was built 90 years ago, the year of the Great Kantō earthquake, survived through World War II.

11 yo boy plunged into a train in Osaka

An eleven-year-old boy committed suicide plunging into the incoming train at JR Nozaki Station in Osaka at round 4:25 PM on February 14th. 32 trains were suspended for hours affecting 14,000 people.
The boy was on his way to the cramming school. His note left at home said "Please stop the reorganization of our school in exchange for a small life."
Three of elementary schools in the city will be consolidated into two in April. The boy's school will be abolished.


大阪の小５自殺　「学校統廃合中止を」メモ残す　―日本経済新聞
http://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXNASDG1505X_V10C13A2CC1000/

自殺か:小５駅で飛び込み　学校統廃合中止求めるメモ残す　―毎日jp
http://mainichi.jp/select/news/20130215k0000e040176000c.html


N Korean ship drifted ashore with 5 dead bodies inside

Minister of Finance committed suicide at his apartment

Two thunderbolts killed ladies at park in Osaka

Members of a USS crew filed suit against TEPCO

8 members of a USS Ronald Reagan crew who joined "Operation Tomodachi", the assistance operation to support Japan in disaster relief following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami file a suit against TEPCO(Tokyo Electric Power Company) for being exposed to radiation.
The plaintiffs are arguing that they had to work in the stricken area while misunderstanding radiation risk not having being provided accurate information. They claim 220 million dollars, 10 million for the each in damages and the rest for establishing a fund for medical expenses in the future.


トモダチ作戦参加の米兵が東電訴える　―NHKニュース
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20121228/k10014491471000.html

N Korean ship drifted ashore with 5 dead bodies inside

A fisherman in Sado, Niigata at 7 am on November 28th found a wooden ship on the shoe. prefectural police admitted bones of five adult males inside the 13 metres ship which has hangul, Korean characters on the body. They seem to be North Korean fishermen being dead at least a month ago.


漂着船に５遺体　佐渡、北朝鮮の漁民か　―日本経済新聞
http://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXNASDG2805S_Y2A121C1CC1000/

U.S. Navy Japan prohibits alcohol after 10 PM

U.S. Force Japan Sasebo Base

U.S. Naval Force Japan ordered the prohibition of alcohol between 10 pm to 8 am to all the bases in Japan. It earlier prohibited the officers from going out between 11 pm and 5 am after two officers were arrested for assaulting an Okinawan female.


日本の全基地に夜間禁酒令　米海軍　―日本経済新聞
http://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXNZO48860040X21C12A1CC1000/

U.S. Forces officer became naked and urinated inside an internet cafe

USS George Washington at Yokosuka, Kanagawa

A crew of the USS George Washington, Petty Officer 3rd Class Oscar Hayes Wiygul(23) on November 23rd was arrested for being naked and urinating inside a manga and internet cafe in Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama.
He was drunk when he came to the cafe with his colleague(21).
U.S. Forces Japan is prohibiting all the officers from going out between 11PM and 5AM.


米兵が漫画喫茶で全裸、公然わいせつ容疑で逮捕、外出禁止時間に／神奈川　―カナロコ 神奈川新聞社
http://news.kanaloco.jp/localnews/article/1211230036/

A man with knife took 4 hostages at a Toyokawa Shinkin Bank

A branch of Toyokawa Shinkin Bank

A 32 years old man named Koji Nagakubo with a knife confined himself taking 4 hostages including a 41 years old vice-manager Kengo Kato at Toyokawa Shinkin Bank in Kurako Toyokawa, Aichi for more than 13 hours till 3:08 am on November 23rd.
Police entered the bank to arrest him when he had a snooze. Among the hostages 19 years old Moe Takeyama was slightly injured on her arm. Nagakubo demanded the resign of Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda.


無職男を監禁容疑で現行犯逮捕　人質全員を保護　―MSN産経ニュース
http://sankei.jp.msn.com/affairs/news/121123/crm12112307270003-n1.htm

Family arrested for hiding a machine gun and grenades in their house

The submachine gun seized

Tokushima Prefectural Police on November 17th arrested Takayuki Mino a 39 years old company officer and his parents living in Takamatsu City for concealing a submachine gun, 201 bullets and 3 grenades in　 an attic of their house.
The authorities investigate means and purpose of acquisition.


屋根裏に自動小銃・手榴弾　親子３人逮捕　―MSN産経west
http://sankei.jp.msn.com/west/west_affairs/news/121118/waf12111808570003-n1.htm

[Okinawa] An U.S. Navy soldier intruded into a house and assaulted a boy

Kadena Air Base

A drunken American officer of Kadena Air Base in Okinawa at 1AM on November 2nd behaved violently in a izakaya bar in the town. Before the police arrival, he appeared to intruded into an apartment room on the third floor of the building, hit a 13-year-old boy in the face who was sleeping in the living room, broke a TV, then fell off from the window to the ground. He was delivered to the navy hospital breaking the ribs and collapsing the lungs.
The police couldn't capture him because of extraterritorial rights of the navy hospital.
He seemed to broke the curfew, the prohibition for the U.S. military officers to go out between 11PM and 5AM enforced after the rape case by American officers on September 16th.


米兵、中学生を殴打 酔って民家侵入　県警、容疑聴取できず　―琉球新報
http://ryukyushimpo.jp/news/storyid-198770-storytopic-1.html

Tohoku Earthquake, 2,814 people are still missing

Bodies were temporary buried in the ground kept waiting to be cremated.

National Police Agency stated the number of people died of the Great East Japan Earthquake is 15,870, and 2,814 are still missing at the point of September 12th 2012.


震災死者１万５８７０人、不明２８１４人　１２日現在　―朝日新聞デジタル
http://www.asahi.com/national/update/0912/TKY201209120483.html

Minister of Finance committed suicide at his apartment

Tadahiro Matsushima, Minister of Finance

Japanese Minister for Financial Services, Tadahiro Matsushita found hanged by the neck in his apartment in Koto-ku, Tokyo on September 10th.
Although taken to hospital, he died at 7:33 PM. Three notes were found addressed to the Prime Minister, his wife and members of the Cabinet.


-FACTS-
In 2011, 30,651 people killed themselves in Japan.


松下金融相が自殺　首相・妻らあてに３通の遺書　―日本経済新聞
http://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXNASDG1004V_Q2A910C1MM8000/

Two thunderbolts killed ladies at park in Osaka

Tree inside park hit by lightning

Thunderbolts struck Nagai Park in Higashisumiyoshi-ku Osaka twice in the afternoon of August 18th killing two 22-year-old ladies and injured a males and 7 females.
The thunderbolts fell twice on trees in the park first at 2:15PM and secondary at 3:05 PM. On the day, outdoor music concert was planned at the place.


大阪・長居の落雷で意識不明の女性死亡　死者２人に　―日本経済新聞
http://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXNASDG1901L_Z10C12A8CC1000/