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Sep 17, 2013 Local News
Crime Prevention Tactics
Purse snatching incidents in Fukuoka’s Chuo Ward have surged this year and many foreigners have fallen victim. There are various ways you can protect yourself against purse-snatchi...
Feb 27, 2013 Local News
Radio Station Teams Up with Police to Air Crime Info
Community Partners Fukuoka, operator of the Community Radio Tenjin FM radio station, began airing a new Chuo Ward crime and traffic information program. The station, which opened t...
Feb 22, 2013 Local News
Head Shop Owner from Hakata Busted
On. Feb 20 the Aichi Prefectural Police Drug and Firearms Control Division arrested Takayuki Sasabe (37) of Hakata-ku on suspicion of violating the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act for i...
Jan 30, 2013 Local News
Slashing Incidents in Fukuoka
Police revealed on Tuesday that two separate stabbing incidents occurred in Fukuoka City within a space of three days. The most recent attack occurred on Monday night, Jan. 28 at a...
Jan 14, 2013 Local News
German Arrested For Smuggling Stimulants
A 53 year old German woman was arrested at Hakata Port after arriving from Busan, Korea on Jan 11, for narcotic importation. Authorities found two packs containing a total of two k...
Oct 20, 2012 Local News
Five Stabbed at Hakata Station
At approximately 1am on Oct. 20 at JR Hakata Station five male passersby were stabbed by a man. All five were taken to a hospital. They are all conscious and there’s no danger of l...
Aug 28, 2012 Local News
Drunk Drivers Still Stain Fukuoka
The 25th of the month is marked as a memorial day for the tragic drinking and driving accident which claimed the lives of three children in Fukuoka City in 2006. The City has initi...
Aug 22, 2012 Local News
Syndicated Crime Headquarter Bombed in Kurume
On Aug. 21, at two in the morning an explosive was thrown into the headquarters of the organized crime syndicate Dozin-kai located in Kurume, Fukuoka. The building door’s glass was...
Aug 15, 2012 Local News
Reporter Fired for Leaking Cop Bribe Info
The Yomiuri Shimbun said Tuesday it has fired a reporter in its Fukuoka bureau for inadvertently releasing sensitive information he had gathered about a police officer who allegedl...
Aug 15, 2012 Local News
New Police Commissioner Promises Crackdown
Kyushu Area’s new police commissioner, Michitoshi Ishida, has promised to come down hard on organized crime gangs during his press conference Aug 14. He hopes to gain public confid...
