A high-ranking member of an organized crime group has been shot dead in Okayama Prefecture, western Japan.Police say Tadashi Takagi was a senior member of a group affiliated with the Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi. The 55-year-old man was found unconscious with gunshots to his chest in a parking lot of a condominium in Okayama city on Tuesday. […]
Officials at the internal affairs ministry say the unemployment rate in April stood at 3.2%.The figure was unchanged from the previous month.Meanwhile, the ratio of job offers to people looking for work in April was 1.34. That means there were 134 openings for every 100 job seekers.The figure is up 0.04 point from March.The ratio […]
Japanese police are searching for a 7-year-old boy missing in a mountain forest of Hokkaido since Saturday after his parents abandoned him there.Yamato Tanooka’s parents told police they left their son at the foot of Mount Komagatake as punishment.Local police say they initially received a call from the parents on Saturday evening saying the boy […]
The The 32nd International Philippine Festival in Nagoya (Aichi) was held on Sunday (May 29th). A cultural festival with several presentations and booths of products and services. The day was very enjoyable with many presentations for the public, such as bingo, art exhibition, karaoke and a raffle offering many prizes. This event is held every year […]
Japan’s first Legoland theme park is coming to this city next spring, which will include a replica castle and a hotel for families. Legoland Japan, an outdoor facility under construction in Minato Ward, is scheduled to open on April 1, 2017. The operator of the theme park said May 19 it expects to attract about […]
Foreign visitors to Japan may soon have the option of showing their passports when checking in to their hotels or simply undergoing a fingerprint scan. The process, aimed at easing congestion at hotel reception desks, is the result of a project between the government and the private sector. A test period will get under way […]
Court said Gregory Gumo committed ‘a systematic crime’ dumping the body of Mariko Akitaya. The Yokohama District Court on Wednesday handed an American male an 18-month prison sentence in the death of a woman in Miura City last July, reports NHK (May 25). Presiding Judge Shigeyuki Fukasawa ruled that Gregory Gumo, 41, committed “a systematic crime” in the dumping of […]
Security personnel arriving at Kudanshita Station came across a knife sitting on floor near snoozing man. A utility knife sitting on the floor near an intoxicated man’s bag caused quite a stir in a Tokyo subway station, NHK reported on Thursday (May 26). Some 20 security officials responded to an emergency call by a worker at […]
Locations known as slip-deficit regions, which could trigger powerful earthquakes, are accumulating underground in the Pacific Ocean off central Japan where the Nankai Trough quake is forecast, research by a team of Japan Coast Guard officers published Tuesday in the British science journal Nature showed. Slip-deficit regions are places where friction prevents tectonic plates from […]
World leaders are making their way to Japan for the G7 Ise-Shima Summit that begins on Thursday.A record number of police officers will be on duty during the summit. Top priority will be placed on the summit venue and soft targets such as the city of Hiroshima, which US President Barack Obama will visit on […]
