Tokyo DispatchJapan, in EnglishA 31-year-old Chinese national is accused of using a device that knocked handsets offline across a 500-meter radius and pushed phishing texts to them. Police believe the confirmed losses are only a fraction of the total.
Police say the device knocked mobile phones offline within a 500-meter radius, then sent texts luring recipients to a phishing site.
Hiroyuki Sakuma, 65, was re-arrested after a camera wrapped in a towel was found in a private cubicle at the Adachi dance school where he taught children.
Mahiro Muroga's former boyfriend says she told him in July that Takuya Miura had broken her nose and strangled her — and that police would not take a complaint at the time.
The 39-year-old suspect was arrested after a woman in her 20s was struck in the face without warning on a street in central Tokyo, and police are investigating similar attacks on women around the same time.
Police say the man in his 30s ran a group that posed as city hall staff to talk victims out of cash. Total losses exceeded ¥2 billion, and part of the money is suspected of reaching organized crime.
Police say the 37-year-old posed as an investor, told a man seeking to expand his business that a loan required a deposit, then cut off contact.
A house and a car burned to the ground in Mie Prefecture. The five family members who live there are safe, but the body found near the entrance is not one of them.
A fire in Yokkaichi destroyed a home where five people lived. Every family member is accounted for. Police are treating the death of the person found near the front door as possibly a crime and possibly an accident.
Tokyo police say the women, in their teens and 20s, were kicked from behind or punched as they walked in Jimbocho on the evening of October 17.
