Fearing Crime, Japanese Wear the Hiding Place
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Japanese fashion designers are devising a variety of novel solutions that they hope will ease growing fears of crime.
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In Japan, cellphone novels have not only infiltrated the mainstream but have come to dominate it.
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Seven people claiming to have defected  from North Korea sought refuge in a Japanese school in Beijing  on Friday, Japanese government officials said.
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Here in the Gion geisha district of Japan's ancient capital, even one bad hair day can cost a girl her career. So it is no wonder that Tetsuo Ishihara is the man with the most popular hands in town.
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When Kiyoshi Baba stopped a top police officer for running a red light in Nepal, he was not only pushing a safety message far from his native Japan, he was also projecting Japanese influence abroad.
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Japanese media called for tighter gun-control laws on Sunday following a deadly shooting at a sports club, which sent shockwaves through the country in which gun crimes are emerging.
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TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - Learn to move like a shadow and hurl deadly metal stars at your enemies from a Japanese ninja master -- the latest offering for holiday thrill-seekers.
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The Toyama No. 5 apartment block is quiet at midday &#151; laundry flapping from balconies, old people taking an after-lunch stroll. But the building and its nearby park may be sitting on a gruesome World War II secret.
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Children as young as 11 who have committed a crime could be sent to reformatories under a Japanese law enacted on Friday, part of a trend toward stiffer penalties reflecting growing angst about grisly crime.
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Japanese police pledged Thursday to improve their technology to battle cyber crime, which shot up 40 percent last year as fraudsters become increasingly sly.
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Yasuo Fukuda, the frontrunner to succeed Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, said on Saturday that he would stay away from a Tokyo shrine seen by Asian neighbors as a symbol of Japan's past militarism if he were chosen as the nation's new leader.
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It's not like anyone from a decaying neighborhood east of downtown is harboring illusions that the place is crime-free. But the discovery of six bodies has raised fears that a serial killer is preying on the area, which one activist calls the most decrepit in the city.
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Koreans living in Japan are being subjected to a &quot;horrific atmosphere of terror&quot; by authorities whose &quot;brutal oppression&quot; represents a &quot;criminal act&quot;, North Korea's UN mission alleged in a letter released Wednesday.
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Japan is blurring the line between defensive and offensive military power in spite of its pacifist Constitution, rattling nerves in northeast Asia.
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New Yorkers know how to hide when crowds roll in.
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In Japan, the cell phone strap is a form of self-expression. By Lisa Katayama.
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Japan&#39;s lower house passed bills on  Friday that would allow crime victims and their families to  question the accused and recommend sentences, a move critics  fear could turn the courtroom into a theatre of vengeance.