Furthermore, can a criminal case ever be handled confidentially without news of their arrest being made public under a plea of guilt? I'm writing a story where a character, who committed multiple crimes including first-degree manslaughter in his teenage years, turns himself in at the age of 18. The setting of the story is Tokyo, Japan, present day ( Read more... )

Search terms used: Mostly I've been reading the actual website of the Japanese Red Cross, but I can't seem to find the kind of detail I need ( Read more... )

Setting: Japan and South Korea, twenty minutes into the future (Dangan Ronpa AU ( Read more... )

How long would someone generally need to be missing before the police would file a report? Or does that vary between prefectures? Also, what - other than the name and description of the missing person - would go into the report? I tried Google, but all I got were US police pages, and some action movies, believe it or not ( Read more... )

Greetings! It's nice to meet you all. This site is amazing and has given me already a lot of information that'll help me on my personal project about an AU in the time/place mentioned in the header.

What I still need is specific information on how the police worked in Edo during the Tokugawa era. Most books I found about this time in Edo only ( Read more... )

Setting: modern-day Tokyo ( Read more... )

Setting: Present-day Japan, Yokohama ( Read more... )

Setting/Story Details: late 1990s in Tokyo, Japan. Two boys aged around 3 or 4 (unrelated children, but their parents are friends) are kidnapped from their respective homes within a few hours of each other. The parents make a police report, but no ransom letter is ever received. (Not quite sure whether this part is really relevant, but three out of ( Read more... )

Setting: A medium-sized fictional Japanese city in late summer/early fall 1999 ( Read more... )

Location: Japan, 2010 ( Read more... )