The Tokyo District Court on Tuesday sentenced a former law school student to four and a half years in prison for severing a 43-year-old lawyer’s penis last year, who the defendant suspected forced his wife to have sexual relations. Ikki Kotsugai, 25, charged with causing injury and violation of the swords and firearms control law, “inflicted […]
Fire extinguished after 4 hours; 2 persons hospitalized. A fire erupted in an eatery’s kitchen on Tuesday, sending towering plumes of smoke into the air as firefighters fought to bring it under control for four hours. The Kyoto City Fire Department received an emergency call at around 7:10 p.m. from a worker ofizakaya Akaneya Junshinken […]
Suspect said, ‘I caught them at home without killing them, I wanted to give them life’. Hyogo Prefectural Police on Monday arrested a 56-year-old woman for allegedly releasing cockroaches in a supermarket in Kobe, reports the Asahi Shimbun (July 5). On June 26 at around 11:20 p.m., the woman, a clerk at a primary school, allegedly opened […]
Suspect wrote about wanting to kill the kids and himself, police say. A man was arrested on Monday for allegedly driving his car into elementary students to try to kill them before he doused himself in oil and plunged a knife into his stomach. Gifu police arrested Harumi Washimi, 68, on attempted murder and hit-and-run […]
A Japanese government plane carrying the bodies of 7 Japanese nationals killed at a restaurant in Dhaka, Bangladesh, has arrived in Tokyo.The aircraft landed at Haneda Airport at around 5:50 AM on Tuesday. On board were the 7 victims and their bereaved family members, as well as officials of companies where the deceased worked.Foreign Minister […]
Extreme heat, reaching sometimes 38.6 degrees, caused hospitalization of 530 people, according to local media. At least 530 people were hospitalized with heat stroke on Sunday in Japan, where in 42 districts the air temperature exceeded 35 degrees Celsius, reaching sometimes 38.6 degrees, local media reported. According to the Kyodo news agency, four people lost […]
Japan’s State Minister for Foreign Affairs says he will do all he can to send the remains of 7 Japanese people killed in last week’s militant attack in Bangladesh back to Japan soon.Gunmen stormed into a restaurant in Dhaka on Friday. They killed 20 hostages, including the 7 Japanese, and 2 police officers. Seiji Kihara […]
Police in Okinawa have arrested a US air force member for drinking and driving.Police say the arrested man is Christopher Aaron Platte, a 27-year-old technical sergeant at the US Kadena Air Base in the southern prefecture. He is suspected to have been driving under the influence in Chatan Town at around 4 AM on Monday.Police […]
NHK has learned that Japan has had at least 3 child casualties caused by passenger seat air bags during accidents since 2013.In February of this year a mini-car rammed into a utility pole in Osaka City. It was going about 30 kilometers per hour. The crash caused air bags to inflate, strongly impacting a 3-year-old […]
Japanese prosecutors have indicted a US base worker for murder and other charges over the killing of a 20-year-old Japanese woman in Okinawa.The written indictment says 32-year-old former Marine Kenneth Franklin Shinzato attacked the woman on the street of Uruma, a central Okinawan city, in April. He hit the woman with a club while attempting […]
