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Dec 25, 2024 · TOKYO (TR) – Aimi Kuroda, a doctor at the Tokyo Cosmetic Surgery clinic, has updated her blog to apologize for a post on social media about her cadaver dissection training in Guam that caused outrage online.

Dec 8, 2024 · TOKYO (TR) – “A team of swindlers gets wind of prime real estate worth 10 billion yen and will stop at nothing to pull off their most ambitious scam yet.”

Dec 27, 2011 · Shukan Post Dec. 23. Shukan Post (Dec. 23) closes the year out with a bang, so to speak.. Citing an adult video (AV) production company employee, the weekly tabloid says that it is common knowledge in the industry that one Japanese woman …

Dec 25, 2024 · TOKYO (TR) – The owner of a popular gyoza dumpling store in Adachi Ward has decided to shut the business down in January. One of the reasons is repeated thefts of large amounts of products.

Dec 27, 2016 · Miyako Hiraoka. SHIMANE (TR) – A man who died in a car accident in 2009 in Yamaguchi Prefecture has been accused in the murder of a 19-year-old female college student who went missing earlier that year after photos of her corpse were found among his personal articles, reports the Sankei Shimbun (Dec. 20).. On December 20, police sent papers to prosecutors on Yoshiharu Yano on charges of ...

Dec 1, 2024 · AICHI (TR) – A court here last month handed a 31-year-old man a life-in-prison term for murdering his wife and then-one-year-old daughter at their home in Niigata City three years ago.. According to the ruling handed down on November 22, Ken Watanabe, a former nurse, strangled his wife Haruka, then 29 years old, and 1-year-old daughter, Jun-chan, with a rope at their home in Minami Ward in ...

TOKYO (TR) – Tokyo Metropolitan Police are questioning actor Ryo Yoshizawa, 30, breaking into a neighboring apartment of his building in Minato Ward last month, reports TBS News (Jan. 6). At around 10:30 a.m. on December 30, a resident of the …

WAKAYAMA (TR) – A court here on Thursday handed down a not-guilty verdict to a 28-year-old woman who had been accused of murdering her much older husband six years ago, citing insufficient evidence.

Dec 28, 2024 · Masahiro Nakai TOKYO (TR) – In the world of Japanese tabloids, a man experiencing what is called a josei toraburu (“woman problem”) means he has probably engaged in affair or, worse, is under investigation for sexual assault.. For Masahiro Nakai, a former member of the boy band SMAP and television personality, it is not clear what led to his current trouble with a woman, but his ...