Gunma police chief arrives at fire drunk; abuses local residents
News On Japan via Japan Today -- Oct 25
Gunma prefectural police said Thursday that a police chief has been removed from his post after news that he appeared at the scene of a neighborhood fire drunk and abused local residents.
According to police, Kazuo Hayashi, 58, who is chief of Azuma police station, reportedly turned up at the scene of a fire while drunk last Saturday night, Fuji TV reported. Witnesses said Hayashi then proceeded to shout a barrage of abuse at local residents and slapped a subordinate who was performing crowd control duties.
A 24-year-old woman was in a serious condition Friday after being stabbed by a man whom she reported to police for stalking her in Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture. (Japan Today )
China's television regulator has ordered a crackdown on dramas about the country's battles with Japan during and before World War Two and demanded they be more serious, state media said on Friday, following viewer complaints about ludicrous storylines. (Reuters )
Police said Friday they have found four dead bodies in an apartment in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, in what is believed to have been a family murder-suicide. (Japan Today )
Shukan Post (May 24) conveys the difficulties experienced by other parts of the adult-entertainment biz in servicing customers from the communist nation.
A deri heru (“delivery health”) call-girl tells the tabloid that she is often requested to arrive at major hotels in the Shinjuku and Ikebukuro entertainment areas of Tokyo by Chinese visitors. (Tokyo Reporter)
Six sailors were found dead after a fire on a foreign freighter docked at a port in Hokkaido, northern Japan.
The sailors are presumed to be Russians. (NHK )