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PR Newswire: Technology | 1 day ago

Hughes Delivers Mobile Broadband Satellite IP Terminals to JSAT Mobile Communications of Japan

...IP Terminals to JSAT Mobile Communications of Japan Hughes 9350 BGAN terminals are being used by National Police Agency of Japan GERMANTOWN, Md., March 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --...

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The Japan Times: All Stories | 1 day ago

Film reflects on Aum attack

...of the bags at Kasumigaseki Station, a major transit point in the heart of the government district. Former National Police Agency chief Takaji Kunimatsu is shown voicing regrets over...

The Japan Times: All Stories | 4 days ago

Aum victim tally revised to 6,252

...attack on the Tokyo subway system killed or injured nearly 6,300 people, not about 5,500 as earlier estimated, the National Police Agency said Thursday in the results of a nationwide...

The Oklahoma Daily | 6 days ago

COLUMN: Japanese education does not lead to higher suicide rates

...students is not as exceptional as commonly believed. According to the Center for Disease Control and Japan's National Police Agency, the U.S. actually has a greater number of student-age...

Boing Boing | 6 days ago

Meet Jake Adelstein, a Jewish reporter who thinks like a Japanese gangster

How did you make that decision? By the time I got to that point, I didn't have a choice. When the FBI and the National Police Agency were putting me under police protection in March...

"We do not know what position the people who escorted the relay are in," Izumi continued, "If they are for the consideration of security, it is our role." The director-General of the National Police Agency of Japan, Hiroto Yoshimura said the issue was connected to Japan's sovereignty, "If the accompanying runners are there to provide maintenance for the torch, then there's no problem, but if they are providing security then it's a problem in terms of violating Japan's sovereignty, and we would tell the Chinese side not to provide security."

2008 Summer Olympics torch relay Wikipedia | 1 month ago

The Japan Times: All Stories | 1 week ago

Aum victim keeps memory alive via film

Since September, she has spent roughly 20 hours meeting and interviewing 11 people. Among them was former National Police Agency chief Takaji Kunimatsu, who was shot outside his...

GlobalPost | 1 week ago

Murder in Japan

...in any year in the post-war era. The 1,097 murders in Japan last year were, according to statistics from the National Police Agency (NPA), down 200 from the previous year, a third of...

The Japan Times: All Stories | 1 week ago

Internet access crimes hit record

...and took action in a record number of cases of unauthorized access to Internet sites in 2009, a National Police Agency survey showed Thursday. The number of cases in which...

The Japan Times: All Stories | 2 weeks ago

Tsunami rips across Pacific, pats Japan

...high landed in Kuji, also in Iwate, at 3:49 p.m. No casualties had been reported as of 5 p.m., the National Police Agency said. The threatening waves forced the Meteorological Agency...

The Japan Times: All Stories | 2 weeks ago

Central control over bureaucrats

...respect the independence of necessarily neutral entities such as the Supreme Public Prosecutors Office, the National Police Agency, the Board of Audit and the National Personnel...

The Japan Times: All Stories | 3 weeks ago

Aum tip preceded attack: Kunimatsu

...sarin in 1995, the national police chief at the time revealed in an interview. The account by former National Police Agency chief Takaji Kunimatsu, 72, during a recent interview with a...

The Japan Times: All Stories | 3 weeks ago

Police to pay more heed to citizens' tips

All reports to be written down to aid in crime prevention The National Police Agency said Thursday it has established a system to handle reports from potential crime victims as part of...