Police say they have found a human body in a forest in northern Japan that could be the latest victim in a series of suspected bear attacks.Police and firefighters on Friday were searching for 74-year-old Tsuwa Suzuki in the forest in Kazuno City, Akita Prefecture. She had been missing for two days.Suzuki is believed to […]
Every year, tourists from all over the world go to Japan to witness the blooming of their snow-white national flower, cherry blossoms. But good news for Filipinos, a park that features cherry blossoms will be opening to campers soon. To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the bond between Japan’s Kochi prefecture and Benguet province, over […]
Suspect told police she ‘strangled their necks’ and ‘wanted to die together’. A woman was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of strangling her two boys before loading their bodies into a car in an apparent murder-suicide attempt. Fukuoka Prefectural Police arrested Asako Nakashita, 36, of Hikari City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on charges of abandoning a corpse after she was […]
A 96-year-old man in western Japan expressed his joy on Friday at being recognized as the world’s oldest university graduate. “I am genuinely happy. Learning is always fun at any age,” said Shigemi Hirata, who met reporters at his home in Takamatsu, showing his new Guinness World Records certificate. Born on Sept. 1, 1919, Hirata […]
Japanese police have confiscated written instructions believed to have been used in a surge of cash withdrawals from ATMs made using forged credit cards.Police say people took out a total of more than 1.8 billion yen, or about 17 million dollars, from about 1,700 automated teller machines across Japan on May 15th. The transactions took […]
Teenage girls were standing in front of suspect on ascending escalators. An off-duty senior police officer was arrested on Monday after he was caught taking illicit footage of two teenage high school girls. Takehito Fukuda, 25, a senior officer of the Chiba Chuo Police Station, was arrested and charged with voyeurism under the nuisance prevention […]
The boy who was left alone in a mountain forest in Hokkaido, northern Japan, for 6 days, has been discharged from hospital.Yamato Tanooka was flown to the hospital in Hakodate City on Friday after being discovered in a hut at a Ground Self-Defense Force exercise range.He left the hospital with his parents on Tuesday afternoon, […]
Police in Tokyo’s Adachi Ward said Sunday they have arrested an unemployed 38-year-old man on suspicion of kidnapping a 4-year-old girl. According to police, the suspect, Teruhiko Seto, abducted the girl, who was playing at a park, on May 14. Fuji TV quoted police as saying he led the girl way to a nearby convenience […]
An estimated 15,000 people die annually in Japan from stroke, lung cancer or other diseases caused by passive smoking, according to a study by a health ministry research team. Deaths due to stroke account for more than half of the total, the ministry said Monday. The findings show that 8,010 people will die from stroke, […]
A Japanese government survey shows workers took home higher real wages in April. It’s the 3rd straight month of increase.Labor ministry officials say the average income was nearly 275,000 yen, or about 2,500 dollars. That’s up 0.6 percent from a year earlier, when adjusted for inflation.The officials say the rise was due to a base […]
