Mito, Ibaraki Pref. – The body of a 23-year-old woman has been found in Hitachiota, Ibaraki Prefecture, with police investigating a 33-year-old man who had been texting her before she went missing as the prime suspect. The woman, identified as Rina Arano, a resident of Tokyo’s Bunkyo Ward, had been missing since June 5, and
Tokyo police have arrested a group of seven, including a 24-year-old official of the Tokyo Regional Taxation Bureau, on fraud charges related to a government COVID-19 relief program, investigative sources said Thursday. The Metropolitan Police Department believes the group swindled the government out of as much as ¥200 million in benefits aimed at helping smaller
PHOTO GALLERY (CLICK TO ENLARGE). Japanese police conducted wiretapping operations in 20 cases and made an overall of 88 arrests as an outcome in 2021, a government report revealed Friday.The variety of cases using the investigation technique tied with that of 2020 for the most in a year since the wiretapping law was taken into
