Day care cancels contract of Canadian caught abusing child in video
By Tokyo Reporter Staff
Day care will close its doors on July 20
Little progress in investigation one year after death of wealthy Wakayama playboy
By Tokyo Reporter Staff
Kosuke Nozaki, 77, was found not breathing on a sofa in a bedroom of his residence in Tanabe City on May 24, 2018
Accountant accused of attempting to molest school girl outside elevator
By Tokyo Reporter Staff
Suspect fled via an emergency staircase after she screamed, police said.
Hostess club enlisted non-paying customers into fraud ring
By Tokyo Reporter Staff
Matter emerged after one of the customers was arrested by police

Canadian caught abusing child at day care second incident involving foreigner this year
By Tokyo Reporter Staff
Video shows the Canadian male, aged in his 40s, slapping a 2-year-old boy on the back
Heisei flashback: Kazuko Fukuda, ‘The Woman of Seven Faces’
By Tokyo Reporter Staff
Kazuko Fukuda used aliases and underwent several plastic surgeries in evading the law for nearly 15 years
Heisei flashback: Anita Alvarado still denies wrongdoing in ‘Chilean geisha’ scandal
By Tokyo Reporter Staff
Anita Alvarado: 'I do not live in the past'

Chiba man listed as likely abducted by North Korea found safe in Japan
By Tokyo Reporter Staff
His disappearance in 1992 was not connected to North Korea, police said
Funding issue leaves 2 corpses in North Korean vessel found beached
By Tokyo Reporter Staff
Salvage company discovered the two bodies aboard the vessel while using an excavator to pull it off the sand on February 11 and 12
Aomori: 2 sailors rescued from suspected North Korean vessel
By Tokyo Reporter Staff
Three other sailors were tossed overboard by rough seas, the rescued men said

Toranomon Hills from Ginza

By Tokyo Reporter Staff on May 15, 2015

(Photograph by The Tokyo Reporter, May 6, 2015)

Published in Photography and Tokyo

Tokyo Reporter Staff

The editorial team at The Tokyo Reporter brings the site's readership the latest news from the under side of Japan.

Osaka ‘delivery health’ business extorted customers in honban hoodwink
By Amy Takahashi
Service threatened to contact employers of victims in getting them to pay
Lady’s live nude program pleased primarily female audience
By Amy Takahashi
Suspect said, I did it to cover living expenses’
Gifu guy blames ‘wandering hands’ in women’s underwear theft
By Kenji Nakano
Police staked out a residence in Kakamigahara City to a catch a (women's underwear) thief
Report: Dispute over woman spurred yakuza killing in karaoke parlor
By Amy Takahashi
Text exchanges, email and information obtained from underworld figures revealed that the shooting was part of a dispute over a woman

Chiba man listed as likely abducted by North Korea found safe in Japan
By Tokyo Reporter Staff
His disappearance in 1992 was not connected to North Korea, police said
Kanazawa school believes Iraqi teacher is murder suspect wanted in Taiwan
By Tokyo Reporter Staff
Ali Hammad Jumaah is alleged to have fatally strangled his parents-in-law in a dispute over his 1-year-old son
Japanese fraud suspect repatriated from Thailand
By Tokyo Reporter Staff
Suspect is believed to have been a member of a fraud ring that operated in operated in Nara, Shimane, Tottori and Kochi prefectures