Japanese female professional wrestler and reality television star Hana Kimura, age 22, has died, wrestling promotion World Wonder Ring Stardom (Stardom) announced yesterday. No cause of death was announced. Kimura reportedly made several post on social media suggesting she was a victim of cyber-bullying shortly before her death. Her final Instagram story post was a […]
Sri Racha – A 35 year old Japanese tourist was forced to suddenly swerve out of the way of an erratically turning taxi in Pattaya this afternoon, crashing into roadside barriers and seriously damaging his vehicle. The taxi driver immediately fled the scene. Mr. Yohei Shuto, 35, driving a white Toyota caught the entire alarming […]
PHUKET: A Japanese man died today (Nov 4) after being pulled from water unconscious during a snorkelling tour at Pileh Bay, the bay next to the world-famous, but now closed to tourists, Maya Bay. Lt Supachai Soonsripeng of the Krabi City Police told The Phuket News that by staff at Krabi Hospital had notified him […]
BANGKOK, Aug 26 (TNA) – Thai police have arrested an alleged leader of a Japanese gang operating a call center to deceive their compatriots. Thirty-year-old Jinnai Yamato was apprehended at a hotel in Bangkok’s Bangrak district on Saturday, Immigration Bureau Chief Pol Lt General Sompong Chingduang told a press briefing on Sunday. Full story: tna.mcot.net […]
Immigration police have arrested a 69-year-old Japanese businessman for allegedly having sex with at least three girls aged under 18 multiple times. Pol Colonel Setthaphat Na-Songkhla, commander of the Immigration Police Division 4, told a press conference at the Immigration Bureau on Thursday (August 8) that Kazuo (full name withheld) was arrested at a hotel […]
Fifteen Japanese nationals accused of swindling more than 200 people in their home country out of more than 70 million baht in a call-centre scam will be extradited back to Japan on Thursday, the Immigration Bureau says. All were arrested at a house in Siam Royal View housing estate in Chon Buri’s Bang Lamung district […]
BANGKOK, April 2 (TNA) – A Japanese scammer has been arrested in Thailand after fleeing a fraudulent charge in Nara, Japan. Kazuya Hashimoto is wanted for conspiring with six others to deceive a 75-year-old woman to wire them eight million yen in July 2013. Full story: tnamcot.com TNA
CHON BURI: Fifteen Japanese have been arrested for allegedly swindling people in their home country out of more than 25 million baht in a call-centre scam based in a luxury house of a housing estate in Pattaya. A combined team of police from several units conducted a warranted search on the house at Siam Royal […]
