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Japan is developing emergency measures to combat stalking, including mandatory GPS tracking devices for offenders under restraining orders. The move follows a fatal stabbing and record-high restraining orders in 2025.
Japanese authorities have arrested a 51-year-old midwife in Chiba Prefecture on suspicion of deliberately contaminating a hospital patient's intravenous line, resulting in his death in January.
Police in Japan's Ibaraki Prefecture have arrested a 49-year-old woman accused of using a needle and thread to sew shut the lips of her 42-year-old roommate in what authorities are investigating as a serious assault case.
A 35-year-old man in Japan's Mie Prefecture was arrested after confining his partner's five-year-old daughter in a garbage can for approximately five minutes on May 12, which he characterised as a disciplinary measure.