Driver arrested after colliding with girl on scooter, then fleeing in Kanagawa

Friday 28th August, 09:03 AM JST

KANAGAWA —

A 39-year-old Mainichi Shimbun employee was arrested for negligent driving resulting in injury and for fleeing the scene of an accident on Thursday, after he hit a 17-year-old girl on her scooter and then drove away without stopping.

Police said Yoshio Kusaka was delivering advertisements for the Mainichi newspaper early Thursday afternoon when his vehicle hit the scooter at an intersection in Sagamihara City. Kusaka didn’t stop his car and drove away from the scene, but returned about 15 minutes later, where he was arrested. He told police that he fled the scene in shock.

The girl was taken to hospital and is receiving treatment for the injuries to her chest.

• mindovermatter at 04:03 PM JST - 28th August

  auntplum

  Being in an accident where a pedestrian is killed typically results in a prison scentence... whether they are inebriated, infirm, elderly, or a teenager talking on a mobile phone whilst listening to an I-pod and playing on a PSP as they wander into the road on their merry way

  I don't know what cave or what country you've been living in, but what you stated is absolutely ridiculous. I'll be the first one to say that Japan has some pretty stupid laws, not to mention the people have very little, if any common-sense and act like a bunch of 7 year olds...

  Come on dude.... If somebody walks out into the middle of a busy road, expressway, highway, etc and gets nailed by a motor vehicle, "provided the driver did everything he could to avoid hitting the pedestrian."

  Then he has nothing to worry about...

  Now of course if he was drinking, taking drugs, speeding or driving with reckless and wanton disregard...

  ALL BETS ARE OFF!

  Come on dude, use some common sense.

  BTW, I choose not to drive, And this is my country, The country MY Forefathers fought and died for so you Japanese can enjoy your freedom and democracy...

  Your Welcome!

  Have a nice Day!

mindovermatter at 01:24 PM JST - 28th August

Even if a pedestrian is drunk and running onto a busy road, the driver that hits them would still be considered guilty in Japanese law.

Not True, unless that driver is doing something illegal, such as drinking and driving or speeding, etc...

I can tell you first hand, having hit someone on a bike, they weren't hurt, but I wasn't even given a ticket. I know of two other instances, one in which an old lady was killed after she stepped into oncoming traffic.

But I do think they need to re-educate the driving populous in Japan. They seem to think that motor vehicles always have the right of way!

Especially bus drivers, these clowns think they own the road, after a couple of near misses, I always make it a point to follow the drivers to their next stop and "physically" Instruct and Educate them, that they do not own the road and they must give ample room when they pass runners, sharing the road with them.

They are all so big and bad behind the wheels of their 20 ton Buses until you meet them face-to-face...

LOL...

(Been there, done that, will do it again in a heartbeat!)

Drunk cop arrested after fleeing scene of car accident in Fukuoka

Wednesday 26th August, 10:59 AM JST

FUKUOKA —

A 49-year-old police sergeant was arrested on Tuesday for negligent driving resulting in injury and failing to stop at the scene of an accident. Tatsuo Koga, a sergeant at Kokuraminami police station, allegedly drove his car on the wrong side of the road in Iizuka City on Monday night and collided with a car. He then walked away from the scene without checking on the condition of the female driver.

The accident happened just after 8 p.m. Monday on Route 200, when a white car believed to have been driven by Koga went the wrong way down the national road and collided with a car being driven by a woman in her 50s, who suffered head injuries in the impact. Koga was found about 200 meters away from the scene sitting on the side of the road. A passer-by told police he saw a man get out of the white car and walk away in the direction Koga was found, and when the car was confirmed to be registered in Koga’s name, he was arrested.

Police said Koga’s breath smelled of alcohol. He admitted he had been drinking, but refused to take an alcohol breath test. A blood test conducted at 6.30 a.m. on Tuesday morning came up with a blood alcohol content of 0.127%, more than four times the legal limit of 0.03. Police are pursuing a charge of driving under the influence of alcohol.

Koga has denied he was the driver of the vehicle, however, and said that his car was stolen.

Koga’s arrest on Tuesday coincided with the third anniversary of a car accident in which a Fukuoka City public servant, driving under the influence of alcohol, smashed into an RV, causing it to plunge off a bridge and into the bay below, killing the three children inside.

mindovermatter at 01:41 PM JST - 26th August

Koga was found about 200 meters away from the scene sitting

200 meters....? Come on now...? I dislike and distrust Jcops with best of them, but 200 meters might have been closest safe place to sit down.

Now for him denying that he was driving, this is another matter altogether.

Thank god no one was killed!

In any case, it's one less 'stupid' Jcop that will be stealing, taking pictures up HS girls skirts, groping women on a train, harassing salarymen / obasan's on their bikes or falling asleep in their station because they drank a drug laced tea provided by the person they were interrogating.... (LOL....)

Or maybe he'll just get promoted! He's now shown upper management that, "he's a player!"

Tamogami calls Hiroshima peace ceremony meeting of 'leftists'

Wednesday 26th August, 05:59 AM JST

TOKYO —

Almost all people who attended a peace ceremony in Hiroshima on Aug 6 to remember the U.S. atomic bombing are ‘‘left-wingers,’’ former Air Self-Defense Force chief Toshio Tamogami said Tuesday.

‘‘There were few A-bomb victims and their children (at the ceremony). Almost all attendees were leftist people who came from all over Japan riding on buses,’’ Tamogami said in a street speech in Miyazaki Prefecture to back a candidate for the Aug. 30 general election.

Tamogami, who was removed as ASDF chief of staff in October 2008 after denying Japan’s militarist past in an essay, was referring to the annual commemorative ceremony at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima city.

‘‘The ceremony marked a leftist campaign aimed at weakening Japan,’’ he said, adding, ‘‘Mass media are trying to keep this fact secret. Ordinary people would see the ceremony differently if they know of the fact.’’

mindovermatter at 09:00 AM JST - 26th August

‘‘Mass media are trying to keep this fact secret. Ordinary people would see the ceremony differently if they know of the fact.’’

Yea... and exactly what facts are those...?

That Japan waged a war of aggression for 40 plus years leading up WW2?

That Japan was planning for the defense of mainland Japan, including arming women and children with bamboo spears, to fight until the very last person?

Or is it the part about... Japan was just an innocent country minding it's own business, when all of a sudden the U.S. just started dropping bombs...? This seems to be the gist of what is taught in the k-12 education system here in Japan... But funny thing, the rest asia and the world for that matter has a completely different version of history....

Man held over shooting death of fellow hunter during monkey cull

Sunday 23rd August, 11:15 PM JST

CHIBA —

Police have arrested a member of a hunters’ group on suspicion of professional negligence after he mistakenly shot to death a fellow hunter Sunday during a cull of monkeys.

Suminori Maeda, a 51-year-old resident of Kimitsu, Chiba Prefecture, shot and fatally injured Masayoshi Murakoshi, 72, also from Kimitsu, around 9:30 a.m. Sunday in a mountain forest. Murakoshi was immediately taken to hospital but was later pronounced dead, police said. Maeda told investigators that he shot Murakoshi after mistaking him for a monkey. At the time, Murakoshi was rushing to join other members of the group on hearing that monkeys had been sighted, police said.

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mindovermatter at 08:15 PM JST - 24th August

At least there weren't any monkeys killed in the oyaji cull!

I think they could sure do a hell of a lot better job of thinning the herd of these oyaji's running the streets today!

Maybe we need to declare open season on them too...?

POST OF HE WEEK!

Policeman arrested for stealing another cop’s watch in Tokyo

Friday 21st August, 08:28 AM JST

TOKYO —

A 30-year-old male police officer was arrested on Thursday for theft and trespassing after he allegedly entered another officer’s room at a police dormitory in Ota Ward and stole his watch in November last year.

Tomonobu Tada, who resides in the same dormitory for single officers, is accused of entering the unlocked room and taking his fellow officer’s watch, worth around 150,000 yen, on Nov 6 and selling it under his own name to a secondhand dealer in Chiyoda Ward in late January. Tada has admitted to the allegations. Investigators would not say why it took so long for them to make the arrest.

biglittleman at 11:57 AM JST - 21st August

This is why I don't trust the Japanese police. One reason is they are criminals too. Second they are stupid criminals. Why sell another cops watch under your own name? Especially when you are suppose to know how investigations work.

These mandatory dormitories for single cops are breeding grounds for sexually frustrated, stupid boys with too much free time. No wonder they are paying underage girls on cellphone sites, stealing and abusing prisoners.

MindOverMatter Says:

Yes biglittleman! Unfortunately you are absolutely spot on!

Where my two buddies Cleo and Mookoo...? Come on my most intelligent of friends!

Two police officers stabbed while trying to subdue 74-yr-old man

Sunday 23rd August, 01:00 AM JST

OKAYAMA —

Two police officers were stabbed while trying to subdue a 74-year-old man brandishing two kitchen knives in his home in Nadasaki, Okayama Prefecture, on Friday. The man, identified as Kenji Nanba, was charged with assault and interfering with police in the line of their duty, but he has denied the charges.

At around 3:50 p.m., police received a call from Nanba’s wife, 69, saying her husband had begun to get violent. When two police officers arrived, Nanba had already settled down, but when they approached him he suddenly grabbed two kitchen knives. He lashed at an assistant inspector, 49, and stabbed him in the leg, then slashed the other officer in the arm. Nanba was drunk at the time of the incident.

norinrad21

I'm waiting for the people who feel the cops should have shot a 74 year man

mindovermatter at 10:36 AM JST - 23rd August

Nobody needs to shoot a 74 year old man, unless he's wielding a loaded firearm, but there's about 20 different techniques to use which don't involve bare handed, karate or judo style grappling, with a knife wielding man. Only idiots, dead or soon to be dead idiots do that.

I'm just dreading the day we read, cop(s) die of fatal stab wounds while taking on drunk knife wielding man bare handed.

I sure hope it will be worth saving the life of some deranged drunk with a weapon or firearm, maybe somebody else will go another slashing spree in Tokyo, because they know the cops won't use deadly force. We'll never know. We can only hope not.

Piss poor training, PERIOD.

It's not a question of "IF" one these JN under-trained cops is going to finally die going to a knife fight bare handed, it's only a question of "When."

God help them.

Man feigns death for 3 hours to avoid police questioning in Osaka

Friday 21st August, 08:47 AM JST

OSAKA —

A 22-year-old man, who was arrested Wednesday night for assault and obstruction of duty after he rear-ended the motorcycle of a police officer, feigned death for about three hours, police said Thursday.

According to police, Yuji Matsumura of Sakai City was riding his motorcycle with some friends when he ran into the motorcycle of the police officer. He tried to escape but was apprehended about 400 meters from the crash.

Seconds after he was handcuffed, Matsumura collapsed and pretended to be dead. Police called for an ambulance even though his breathing and heartbeat were normal. Matsumura put on a good show, however, and didn’t even flinch when medics inserted a catheter into his urethra. A doctor who performed a CT scan found no abnormalities.

This went on for three hours, police said, until Matsumura’s mother came to the hospital to identify him. He returned to his senses at the sound of her voice.

mindovermatter at 09:03 AM JST - 21st August

This is something a 6 year old might do...

But unfortunately this is the mentality of the average 40 year old Japanese male, females have more common sense than to pull something so stupid.

More than 3 months later and still no progress... Japanese Police can't find their ass from a hole in the ground!!!

Foreign man fatally stabbed after brawl in Nagoya

01:04 AM JST - 4th May

NAGOYA — A man died of stab wounds in Nagoya early Saturday after being dragged out of his car during an altercation with a group of men in another vehicle, police said Sunday. The man, who appeared to be a foreigner in his 30s, was taken to a hospital but died shortly after.

Japanese Police Clueless OR Purposely choose to not pursue the Yakuza behind this Cowardly act!

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Man held for attempted murder after baseball bat attack in Chiba

Tuesday 18th August, 09:09 AM JST

A 25-year-old man was arrested for attempted murder on Monday, after he hit a 29-year-old man repeatedly with an aluminium baseball bat. A taxi driver called police just before 2 a.m. and told them a man was walking around with a baseball bat. Police rushed to the area outside Gyotoku station in Ichikawa City, and found Kazuma Oi standing over a man and attacking him with the bat.

Oi was arrested and admitted to attacking the man, saying he was challenged by him. The victim was seriously injured and was bleeding from his head, but is in a stable condition in hospital, police said.

mindovermatter at 04:08 PM JST - 18th Au

gust

Who needs a knife or a sword..? A baseball bat in Japan is just as good as having a 44 magnum.

I wonder when they will amend the "Firearms and Swords" Law to read, "Firearms and Swords and Baseball Bats" Law..?

I wonder if it took 10 cops to arrest this guy, and in the process the cops stuck their heads out to absorb the impacts and swings of the guy wielding the bat, rather than, accidentally "harm" this nice man during his arrest...?

Cleo... Care to weigh in with your Informed and so Astute opinion...?