Crime in Japan has been recorded since at least the 1800s, and has varied over time. Before the Meiji Era, crime was handled often severely at a daimyo...

[gokɯꜜdoː]), are members of transnational organized crime syndicates originating in Japan. The Japanese police and media, by request of the police, call...

of Japan committed numerous war crimes and crimes against humanity across various Asian-Pacific nations, notably during the Second Sino-Japanese and...

This is a list of documented major crimes in Japan. "事件史". "埼玉・農薬牛乳殺人". Archived from the original on 2018-08-09. Retrieved 2018-07-23. "事件史". "金嬉老事件"...

Racism in Japan (レイシズム, reishizumu) comprises negative attitudes and views on race or ethnicity which are held by various people and groups in Japan, and...

between immigration and crime. Research in the United States tends to suggest that immigration either has no impact on the crime rate or even that immigrants...

A war crime is a violation of the laws of war that gives rise to individual criminal responsibility for actions by combatants in action, such as intentionally...

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true-crime thriller, but an engrossing, troubling look at crime and human exploitation in Japan." In August 2013 a film adaptation of the memoir was announced...

satsujin) in Japanese law constitutes when someone intentionally kills another person without justification. The crime of murder is specified in Chapter...

and Imperial Japanese war crimes. The group was created by the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act (NWCDA), passed in 1998, and the Japanese Imperial Government...

crime writer, and blogger who has spent most of his career in Japan. He is the author of Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan...

videos [ja]" (AV) in Japan, so Japanese adult videos (JAV) refers to the Japanese pornographic film industry. Animated films are referred to as hentai in English...

Japan's status as a developed economy and the presence of organized crime in Japan have made it a target of the international drug trade. As early as the...

penalty in Japan. In practice, it is applied only for aggravated murder, but the current Penal Code and several laws list 14 capital crimes, including...

Yakuza (Japanese: ヤクザ, [jaꜜkɯza]), also known as gokudō (極道, "the extreme path"), are members of transnational organized crime syndicates originating in Japan...

Japan is an island country in East Asia. It is in the northwest Pacific Ocean and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, extending from the Sea...

Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve...

A hate crime (also known a bias crime) is crime where a perpetrator targets a victim because of their physical appearance or perceived membership of a...

Although women in Japan were recognized as having equal legal rights to men after World War II, economic conditions for women remain unbalanced. Modern...

Japan Organized Crime Boss (Japanese: 日本暴力団 組長, Hepburn: Nihon boryoku-dan: Kumicho) is a 1969 Japanese yakuza film directed by Kinji Fukasaku. The Danno...

Crime has been recorded in the United States since its founding and has fluctuated significantly over time, with a sharp rise after 1900 and reaching a...

not widespread in mainland Japan during the occupation. Japanese police records and journalistic studies indicate that most violent crimes committed by...

and female sexuality in postwar Japan. Japanese crime writer Jake Adelstein said with regards to sukeban: What is unusual is that in the yakuza, women have...

Japan had an official slave system from the Yamato period (3rd century A.D.) until Toyotomi Hideyoshi abolished it in 1590. Afterwards, the Japanese government...

cover-up of Japanese war crimes after the End of World War II in Asia, granting political immunity to military personnel who had engaged in human experimentation...

Sexuality in Japan developed separately from that of mainland Asia,[clarification needed] as Japan did not adopt the Confucian view of marriage, in which...

Crime in South Africa includes all violent and non-violent crimes that take place in the country of South Africa, or otherwise within its jurisdiction...

Crime fiction, detective story, murder mystery, mystery novel, and police novel are terms used to describe narratives that centre on criminal acts and...

Crime in Japan Yurakucho 300 million yen incident D.B. Cooper Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft, 1990, world's largest art theft from a museum in...