Tag: crime

The other day, my daughter came out of her room, and I did a double-take. She was wearing one of ...

The other day I was reading through random Wikipedia articles and I happened across the entry on Jonny Quest. For ...

The Academy Awards ceremony is closely followed in Japan, where it's kind of a combination of the Kohaku Red-and-White music ...

As a general rule, Japan is very "about" -- an English word the Japanese use to mean subtle, vague or ...

One Japanese TV show I watch every once in a while is "Unbelievable!" in which famed Japanese director and squeaking ...

Although the Japanese have developed quite a taste for coffee in recent years, green tea is still very popular here, ...

There are certain things the Japanese just seem to really like for reasons that are difficult for foreigners to understand. ...

Well, singer Noriko Sakai has turned herself in to the authorities, admitting to using stimulant drugs with her husband for ...

Japan's entertainment world has been turned upside-down by a perfect storm of scandals this week. First, actor Manabu Oshio was ...

Japan's judicial world is undergoing big changes as the country prepares to introduce a "citizen juror" system in which guilt ...

The subject of Japan's police is an interesting one. Japan's boys in blue are organized under the umbrella of the ...

All in all, Japan is a fairly easy country for an expat to live in: people are friendly and interested ...

In 2007 a sad event occurred in the town of Aizu-Wakamatsu, which is incidentally famous for being the site of ...

J-List is based in Gunma Prefecture, a crane-shaped piece of land that's located right in the center of Japan -- ...

Japanese is a complex language, with a lot of information that's not openly stated since Japanese people are usually good ...

Words sure are complex things, and it's interesting to consider why we use one word over another. This morning I ...

Big changes may be coming to Japan's online world with the announcement that Hiroyuki Nishimura, founder of the infamous BBS ...

Tokyo is a large and complex place. Many areas of the city are famous for different things, like Akihabara for ...

Last time I talked about the new Japanese "lay jury" system, which aims to have citizen jurors take part in ...

Like most countries, Japan has its unsavory elements, including organized crime. Japan's version of the Italian mafia are the yakuza ...

"Overseas dramas" are as popular as ever here in Japan, and thousands of fans follow American series like Damages or ...

The biggest news in Japan these days has been the murder of a former Vice Minister of Health and Welfare ...

Japan continues to have problems with a type of fraud known as furikome sagi (translatable as "Transfer the Money Now!" ...

So picture this. Suddenly you get a phone call, and a young voice says, "It's me, it's me," as if ...