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Police Stand By as Korean Man is Assaulted by Extremists for Protesting...
A Korean man protesting at the infamous Yasukuni Shrine was assaulted by a group of Japanese men on August 15, the 67th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II. The incident was brought to...
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Japanese Man Pulls Knife on Teenagers For Littering, “I Just Wanted to Warn...
Japan is known for being one of the cleanest countries in the world, surely a point of pride for many Japanese people. But is it enough to pull a knife on someone for littering? Last month, Tokyo...
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Chinese Man Dragged Out of Car and Beaten For Driving Toyota During...
Anti-Japanese rallies in China continue to escalate as protesters in cities across the country have come out in the thousands, marching in front of diplomatic compounds, attacking Japanese businesses...
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Japanese-Owned Store in Shanghai Asserts Chinese Solidarity amid Violent...
After weeks of anti-Japanese protests in China, with many escalating into physical violence and damage to property, Japanese nationals and businesses alike are understandably on edge. With many stores...
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Host Club Boss Caught on Camera Beating an Elderly Taxi Driver, Internet...
A video showing a man believed to be the boss of a “host club” bar repeatedly striking an elderly taxi driver has caused outrage in Japan after it was uploaded to YouTube and Niconico video. The...
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Messing with These Vending Machines May Result in Severing of Fingers and/or...
Rumor has it that among the numerous maid cafés, manga, DVD, and video game shops in Akihabara, Tokyo, there exists a unique corner full of vending machines. The machines contain typical fare for Japan...
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Elementary school principal resigns after responding to knife threat with a...
The principal of an elementary school in Osaka recently resigned under pressure from the city’s board of education after using physical violence as a disciplinary measure against seven of the school’s...
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Japanese gamers debate Red Cross’s call for virtual crimes to be punished
The International Red Cross has recently been pushing for so-called “hyper realistic” video games to follow international humanitarian laws and penalize players for their in-game crimes, such as...
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Assaulted Japanese man runs ad in Berlin subway asking attacker to work together
How would you react to being beaten up while living in a foreign country by an assailant spewing racial hatred? While most of us may be more interested in revenge, a Japanese software developer and...
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People are getting into fights outside Apple stores because no one in China...
Fights have broken out all over the world in the last couple of days in front of Apple Stores as people queued for the new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. A fight breaks out at an Apple Store in Paris...
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Man tries to cut down Chinese hospital waiting time by sucker kicking nurse...
It goes without saying that no one is hanging out in a hospital just to soak up the elegantly relaxing atmosphere. What’s more, if we’re talking about an urgent care center, well, it’s sort of implied...
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Japan’s censorship of PlayStation 4 horror game Until Dawn is spectacularly...
Considering it’s the same country that gave us movies like Battle Royale, Tokyo Gore Police and Ichi the Killer, Japan’s method of handling violent video game content can be quite perplexing at times....
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Convenience store clerk hospitalized by customer dissatisfied with...
When you work in a customer-facing role, you can expect to deal with some difficult people from time to time. Being hospitalized by one of them, however, should never be a concern… The incident...
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Company president beats and kills employee, gets five years’ probation
Miyuki Muto, the president of a fish wholesaler, received a five-year suspended sentence for killing an employee after physically assaulting him. ■ Beaten to death The incident occurred in August of...
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Japanese radio host arrested after beating female co-host with microphone...
67-year-old entertainer flies into violent rage during regular afternoon talk show. Most people would say that if you’re going to commit a violent crime, the smart thing to do is to commit it when...
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Spate of violence targets people walking while looking at their phones in...
Japanese train stations get the self-proclaimed “vigilante” heroes they neither need, nor want. While most SoraNews24 readers will obviously be getting their daily fix of the weird and wonderful from...
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Fake yakuza arrested in Tokyo after threatening man who was walking while...
Continued backlash against “arukisumaho” seen in social media users’ responses. Despite the number of posters plastered all over train stations and other public places warning of the dangers of using...
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Warnings about “the dangers of social media” have critics saying his statement appallingly misses the point. Many people in Japan are still trying to wrap their heads around an incident that occurred...
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Tokyo taxi driver violently assaulted by Tokyo taxi company president
Professional courtesy takes a back seat in shoe-throwing street fight. I think it’s generally human nature to treat people kindly if they work in an industry you have first-hand knowledge of. It’s why...
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“Asking some Americans to give up guns is like asking Japanese people to give...
American-born Japanese celebrity Pakkun’s comparison doesn’t go over well, but one commenter has a better food analogy. With public violence and private gun ownership both extremely rare in Japan, the...
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