Medics rushed to a house in East Pattaya on Tuesday Morning to assist a 40 year old Japanese Man who had attempted to hang himself using computer cables. Medics arrived at the house inside the Raviporn Village off Soi Kao Noi just before 7am and began administering CPR to Mr. (name removed), who is believed […]
In a mobile-quality video shot shortly before setting out to ISIS stronghold Al-Raqqa city, Japanese Journalist Kenji Goto said the Syrian people have been suffering for three years and a half, and that he intends to report on ISIS and their actions in Syria. “It’s enough,” he exclaimed. On February 1, the world awoke to […]
After several years of chasing a suspect accused of scamming Japanese businessmen and tourists out of more than 100 million baht, police have arrested alleged serial fraudster, kathoey Uthai Nanthakhan. A team of Crime Suppression Division (CSD) officers, led by Pol Sgt Maj Yutthaphon Srisomphong — dubbed “Johnny the Buster” — apprehended the 40-year-old Ms […]
After a Japanese man was featured in every media outlet for calling the taxi queue at Suvarnabhumi Airport “the disgrace of Thailand,” one Bangkok driver is protesting by openly discriminating against an entire nation. “Cessation of the Japanese passenger,” reads the message written in English, Thai and Japanese, though in Thai it’s closer to “Not […]
BANGKOK — A taxi driver has been suspended from picking up passengers at Bangkok’s international airport after a Japanese tourist’s complaint about the driver’s refusal to use a meter went viral on social media. Koki Aki posted on Facebook, in Japanese and Thai, on Sunday that the cab driver assigned to him at Suvarnabhumi Airport […]
A Japanese pop megastar caused consternation during a popular annual New Year’s Eve broadcast on December 31 by wearing a fake Hitler moustache during his performance. Keisuke Kuwata is the founder and lead-singer of the Southern All Stars, one of the most beloved and iconic pop bands in 1980s Japan. After selling millions of records […]
A Japanese man was found hung inside a room on the 14th floor of Diamond Tower on Soi Silom 7 at 3 am Thursday, police said, adding that it was an apparent suicide. He was identified as Atsuhiro Kawamoto, 62. Read more: The Nation
The husband of a woman who used an ATM of a missing Japanese language teacher to make several withdrawals from his bank account was taken into custody today after he admitted that he killed the Japanese. Somchai Kaewbangyang reportedly told police that the former language teacher, 79-year Yoshinori Tetsuo, went unconscious and he killed him. […]
