There's been a lot of media attention about stalking recently, not least due to the sad case of 18-year-old Saaya Suzuki, murdered by a stalker earlier this month.
Now comes another odd twist on the situation.
The National Police Agency (NPA) has reported a 3.8 increase on incidents of stalking by citizens over 60 over the last decade.
So much for the golden years.
Apparently stalking is on the increase in general, though the rise is much more notable for pensioners.
Stalkers in their sixties jumped from 383 in 2003 to 1,329 in 2012, plus there was an increase from 90 to 505 of guys in ...
Mobile phone games can be addictive. One cop found this out to his cost.
The 44-year-old Takahiro Ueyama from Hyogo has just got an 18-month sentence for using his position to keep up with his mobile phone game debt, which had apparently reached as high as ¥500,000 ($5,000). That is some addiction!
What was the game? An ero game? No, much more mainstream: Rage of Bahamut (Shingeki No Bahamuto). But it seems Ueyama couldn't stop playing.
When he got a particularly large phone bill he drove over to the home of a woman he had stopped the previous month for "suspicious behavior" in her car. ...
Our image of the pimp is typically a young wannabe gangster, flashy clothes with sunshades and a toothpick in his teeth.
Beware an old man in a hurry, as the saying has it. The elderly chap in spectacles might just be rushing around arranging sexual encounters for his fellow older acquaintances.
Such was the case in Tokyo where the 70-year-old Kiyohide Kuroda was arrested for organizing meet-ups between older men and women in coffee shops, which would then lead onto some more vigorous encounters.
Kuroda's arrest stems specifically from a meeting he arranged between a male 67-year-old ...
If you're a young girl in school in Japan, take a close look around you.
Are those boys in your class really boys? One of them might just be a much older guy in disguise!
That is, if the recent case in Kumamoto is anything to go by. A 33-year-old man in Kumamoto City on the southern island of Kyushu had a fetish for schoolgirls' uniforms and just had to get his hands on some. His target was a private high school in the city.
Contract employee Akira Katayama was arrested on Sunday for theft, though you've got to admire his stealth and bravado. He put on a male uniform for the school ...
The first rule of working in the illegal porn industry is: Never send your work to the police. It's an unwritten rule because it's so obvious.
But someone needs to let the underground JAV trade in Osaka know because that's exactly what six pornographers did!
Since the catalogs they sent included a host of illegal porn DVDs (i.e. uncensored), you are surely only asking for trouble!
How did they commit such an elementary blunder? Well, Toshiharu Hidaka (27) and his gang of five other men didn't actually post the catalogs to a police station. However, in their efforts to market their ...
Naoki Nakatani. An ordinary 30-year-old guy from Ibogawacho in Hyogo prefecture. Or is he?
Our friend Naoki here has been been selling some clothes via online auctions. Nothing unusual in that.
Except that he has been selling raincoats. A lot of them. And they have the names of girls' high schools written on them, as one person who bought a raincoat from Nakatani found out.
Correctly assuming it was stolen, the customer contacted police, who then began to investigate.
Over the last six years, he had apparently visited local supermarket bicycle parking areas dozens of times and ...
Chikan. AKA groping. It's a real Japanese tradition. But that doesn't mean you have to be Japanese to do it. When in Rome, as they say.
Now a foreigner has been caught copping a feel on a young Japanese woman on a JR train. Not only was this foreigner a British "gentleman" but he was also... a preacher!
Apparently this man of the cloth is 48 but was doing most unholy things to the legs and breasts of the 22-year-old female office worker sitting next to him one day on a train in Shiga on September 14th.
This wasn't just a little fondle. This was a 25-minute afternoon groping ...
Hardly the biggest surprise of the week but a worthy topic of news, Tokyo Reporter has highlighted an interesting report of the arrest of a Nigerian club owner arrested by police for drugging and stealing from his customers.
Officers took Emanuel John, the 44-year-old manager of Little Cat, which is located in the in the red-light district of Kabukicho, and three hostesses into custody on theft charges.
On April 20, a hostess allegedly spiked a vodka drink served to a 43-year-old male customer with a sleeping powder. His cash card was then stolen from his wallet and taken to a nearby ...
Four men have been arrested in Tokyo for theft by Kanagawa police after they blackmailed a man they met through a smartphone deai-kei app.
Deai-kei refers to the portals online and off where men go to meet girls for sex. It is somewhere between adultery and prostitution, but the variables are huge. You might be talking to a few men posing as teenagers or you might be arranging to meet a genuine girl who wants some cash for a new handbag.
The four men were in their teens and twenties. They apparently scouted a thirty-year-old man from Fujisawa City via the app and invited him to the mean ...
Just imagine you like AKB48. Now imagine you like AKB48 so much you will commit a crime.
That's what four teenagers did.
They mugged a man in order to have cash to buy special clothes to "look good" for a meet-and-greet hand-shaking event with the idol group.
Aged between 15 and 17, the kids came up to a 27-year-old grad student as he was leaving a convenience store earlier in August in Kamiya, central Tokyo. Confronting him in their best macho voices, they managed to get away with his phone, his money and even the can of beer he had just purchased. The victim apparently ...
