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May 12, 2013
NARAHA, Fukushima Prefecture--The 2011 accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant showed just how vulnerable the nation's reactors were to a natural disaster. Now,...
May 10, 2013
SEOUL, South Korea--President Park Geun-hye's office said May 10 that she has fired her chief spokesman after a "disgraceful incident" during Park's trip to the United States.
May 04, 2013
BEIJING--Chinese police have broken a crime ring that passed off more than $1 million in rat and small mammal meat as mutton, authorities said, in a food safety crackdown that...
March 02, 2013
KYOTO--Alarmed at how many young people are falling prey to cybercrimes, Kyoto prefectural police and a university in the city are offering advice through a medium they think...
February 15, 2013
MINSK, Belarus--Police in Belarus are going after gays, raiding their clubs and locking up clubbers overnight, and summoning gay activists for questioning. One activist accuses ...
February 14, 2013
Japan's police force needs to raise its game in confronting cybercrime.
February 09, 2013
Tokyo police have started to crack down on the rapidly booming "JK rifure" industry, where girls clad in high school uniforms are paid to massage the limbs of male customers or ...
January 31, 2013
Nearly 460 police officers and other personnel were disciplined for misconduct while a record-high 93 were arrested in 2012, despite reforms intended to clean up law...
January 19, 2013
Police are investigating publisher Kodansha Ltd. over a photo involving a "graduating" member of the popular all-girl AKB48 group that possibly violates child pornography laws.
January 16, 2013
The Tokyo District Court ordered the metropolitan government to pay 1 million yen ($11,235) in damages and apologize to a successor group of the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult for ...
January 08, 2013
The National Police Agency is considering recommending that police officer applicants undergo voluntary polygraph testing as part of their screening, as disciplinary actions...
December 28, 2012
Incidents involving firearms as well as attacks on citizens by members of organized crime groups remain rampant in Fukuoka Prefecture. Three “specific crime syndicates”...
December 23, 2012
TOYAMA--A Toyama prefectural police lieutenant indicted for leaking investigative information has been arrested on suspicion of killing a couple, setting fire to their home and ...
November 29, 2012
BEIJING--Police in the southern Chinese island province of Hainan will board and search ships which enter into what China considers its territorial waters in the disputed South ...
October 23, 2012
KITA-KYUSHU--After last call around 1 a.m. on Sept. 7, a taxi driver picked up a regular customer, a female bar owner, to take her to her condominium only a few minutes away.
September 17, 2012
SHENZHEN, China--What started out as an anti-Japan protest here quickly escalated into a free-for-all that only ended when riot police fired tear gas to disperse the...
September 03, 2012
Behind the scenes of the weekly anti-nuclear protests in front of the Prime Minister's Official Residence is a skirmish over whether police are taking excessive measures in...
August 28, 2012
Public security officials in eastern China say they have uncovered no evidence that local police officers roughed up an Asahi Shimbun reporter during a demonstration last month.
July 19, 2012
Police in Japan and 10 Southeast Asian countries on July 19 began sharing terrorism-promoting information found on 50,000 websites in various languages, including Arabic and...
June 14, 2012
SENDAI--Police sketch artist Kazuo Koriyama is used to drawing images of bad guys, but now he's putting his pencil to work to help identify victims of last year’s earthquake...