A Japanese court on Wednesday found a martial arts instructor guilty over the death of a six-year-old boy, a court official said, in the first criminal case over judo training in Japan.

The Osaka District Court found the instructor guilty of causing the boy’s death by repeatedly slamming him to the floor during training, ordering the defendant to ( Read more... )

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Police have charged a man with breaking and entering after he barricaded himself in Johnny Kitagawa’s apartment in Shibuya this morning, reports Jiji Press, Sankei News, and Mainichi Shimbun.

It has been reported around 9:40am on August 17, the 52-year-old suspect, Toshio Unotoro, broke into the Johnny’s president’s apartment building. According to ( Read more... )

A mother and her boyfriend in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, have been arrested on suspicion of assaulting the woman’s two children after day nursery workers became concerned about bruises on the daughter’s body, police said Saturday.

The 29-year-old unemployed woman and her 28-year-old boyfriend, an administrator at a chiropractic clinic, were questioned ( Read more... )

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Police in Yamagata City received a report from a father that a male suspect "who looked like a high school student" cut off part of the t-shirt of the father's six-year-old girl at around 2:00 p.m. on Sunday. The first-grade girl was playing next to her Yamagata home when the offense allegedly occurred. The girl was physically uninjured, and while ( Read more... )

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