Crime & Courts
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Ex-Tokyo Games official rearrested on suspicion of receiving bribes from Kadokawa
Haruyuki Takahashi, 78, a former executive board member of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic organizi...
September 6, 2022
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3-year-old girl in Shizuoka Prefecture dies after being left inside daycare bus for hours
Somehow, nobody noticed that 3-year-old China Kawamoto did not get off her daycare bus on Monday mor...
September 6, 2022
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Games bribery case leads to ad agency Daiko
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Public prosecutors raided Daiko Advertising Inc.’s headquarters Monday over a ...
September 5, 2022
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Ad agency suspected of paying bribes for Tokyo Olympics contract
An Osaka-based advertising agency, Daiko Advertising, is suspected of being involved in the bribery ...
September 5, 2022
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Suspect in murder of wife, daughter in Osaka Pref. flees to Brazil, expected to appear before local police
RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazilian national Anderson Robson Barbosa, 33, wanted by Osaka Prefectural Police ...
September 4, 2022
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Ex-Aoki chairman admits to bribing arrested Tokyo 2020 exec, sources say
Hironori Aoki, the former chairman of Aoki Holdings, Inc. who is under investigation for an alleged ...
September 4, 2022
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Arrested Tokyo 2020 exec linked to another shady sponsorship deal
The Tokyo 2020 organizing committee executive board member already under arrest in an Olympics-relat...
September 3, 2022
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Need for legislation on organ transplant NPOs
A Tokyo-based nonprofit organization called the Intractable Disease Patient Support Association is s...
August 27, 2022
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6 govt officials to take pay cuts for wining, dining scandal
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The education ministry on Friday announced punishments for six officials wined ...
August 27, 2022
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Major Japan menswear firm ‘pressed for lower sponsorship fees’ after Tokyo Games postponed
Haruyuki Takahashi, a former executive board member of the Tokyo Games organizing committee, may ha...
August 22, 2022
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Mother, daughter stabbed with knife on Tokyo street
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — A woman in her 50s and her teenage daughter were injured after being stabbed in...
August 21, 2022
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Sources: Tokyo Games exec asked IOC to expedite approval of Aoki products
Haruyuki Takahashi, the former Tokyo Games organizing committee executive arrested on suspicion of a...
August 20, 2022
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Takahashi suspected of mediating discounted Games sponsorship contract for Aoki
Haruyuki Takahashi, a former executive board member of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic organizing c...
August 19, 2022
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Sources: Tokyo Games exec pushed for sales period extension for Aoki
Haruyuki Takahashi, the former Tokyo Games organizing committee executive who was arrested Wednesday...
August 19, 2022
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Prosecutors swooped after evidence piled up against Takahashi
The arrest of former Tokyo 2020 organizing committee executive Haruyuki Takahashi and others on Wedn...
August 19, 2022
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