A Japanese man was attacked on Pattaya beach by a Thai woman who was apparently soliciting sex clients there early on Wednesday, police said. The Pattaya police station was alerted to the incident at 1.30am. Officers rushed to the beach near Tip Plaza and found Hiroyuki Kakashima, 70, trembling in fear. Full story: The Nation […]
A Japanese woman was arrested at Suvarnabhumi international airport on Tuesday night after airport officials found more than 50 protected animals of different species in her luggage. Officials manning an X-ray machine saw the images of what look like animals inside a luggage bearing the name of Ms Maki Takahashi, a passenger of Thai Airways […]
A Japanese national was arrested yesterday in Bangkok’s Thonglor area for allegedly duping an investor of more than Bt40 million. The suspect is Aota Koichi, 57. Full story: The Nation Dollawee Sudphum
KANCHANABURI — A Japanese man taking a “selfie” on the famous River Kwai Bridge was seriously injured after being hit by a train in full view of hundreds of shocked tourists on Saturday morning. Haruhisa Saito, 52, sustained broken ribs and head injuries after being struck by Thon Buri-Nam Tok train No 257 on the […]
A Japanese man who was alleged to be a key financier of the Yamagushi Yakuza gang in Japan was arrested by Thai and Japanese police near his condominium in Din Daeng area early this morning (Sunday). Pol Lt-Gen Natthathorn Prohsunthorn, commissioner of Immigration Bureau, said that the detainee, Mr Suhey-I Yoshisawa, 34, was wanted by […]
A Japanese tourist was attacked by a group of lady boys on Beach Road Pattaya. At 3 am, April 3rd, a 35 year old Japanese tourist Mr. Satoki Kawabata was rescued by the Tourist Police from an attacked by lady boys. A good samaritan reported the assault to the Tourist Police, that were set up […]
HUA HIN — When photos of naked Japanese men frolicking in the surf in Hua Hin ended up on Twitter last Saturday, they briefly went viral before being shrugged off as harmless, drunken tomfoolery. But this being the internet, the story didn’t end there. What made some headlines and raised some eyebrows domestically has gone […]
HUA HIN — Viral photos of dozens of Japanese tourists frolicking naked in the surf of Hua Hin prompted a fruitless police investigation over the weekend. Investigators subsequently determined that the 20 to 30 men involved in the mass skinny dipping session were part of a Japanese tour group that eluded capture by departing the […]
