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Internet giant Google has been stopped from gathering images in Greek cities for its Street View service until it provides further guarantees about privacy. Launched in the U.S. two years ago, Street View provides users with access to 3-D "pedestrian's-eye"...
Tags: Japanese, Google Street View, Google Earth, Greece, privacy complaints, Honda Motor Co., Tokyo Metropolitan Police
Angels and Demons” director Ron Howard, 55, American actor Tom Hanks, 52, and Israeli actress Ayelet Zurer, 39, meet the press in Tokyo on Thursday. Referring to the backlash from the Vatican and religious fundamentalists over the film version of Dan...
Japan 's best-known pop band faces an uncertain future after one of its members was found cavorting naked in a public park in Tokyo in the early hours today. Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, a member of the hugely successful band Smap, was arrested on suspicion of...
Tags: Tokyo Metropolitan Police, Technology › Tokyo Metro, Japan, Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, pop star
Wakakirin, the 25-year-old sumo wrestler under arrest for marijuana possession, was turned over to prosecutors Sunday. Wakakirin, whose real name is Shinichi Suzukawa, was apprehended Friday along with musician Tsutomu Hirano, 30, at the office of a...
Tags: Tokyo Metropolitan Police, Wakakirin, interrogations rooms, sumo wrestler, tokyo police, The Japan Sumo Association
Tokyo has caused havoc today after he swam naked in the moat around the Imperial Palace, one of Japan's most sacrosanct sites. Police seized the bald and portly man after a nearly two-hour chase in which he hurled rocks at police and scaled the moat's...
Tags: imperial palace, Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Police, palace moat
A Japanese woman and her six-month-old baby escaped unhurt from a knife-wielding thief this week after the mother calmed him down with a cup of tea and a chat. The 30-year-old Tokyo woman was walking along a corridor in her apartment building with her...
Tags: Tokyo Metropolitan Police, demanded money, apartment building
The Justice Ministry declined immediate comment on the reports by Jiji Press and Kyodo News, which said that Tsutomu Miyazaki had been hanged. Miyazaki, who was 45, was arrested in July 1989 while trying to take naked pictures of a girl outdoors. AFP...
Tags: Japan Hangs, Tsutomu Miyazaki, death penalty, serial killer, Kunio Hatoyama, Tokyo Metropolitan Police, justice minister, capital punishment, Yasuo Fukuda, convicted murdering