Continuing aftershocks in southwestern Japan are reminding people of the earthquake that rocked the region the night before. Nine people are dead and more than 1,100 others injured. The magnitude 6.5 quake also registered the highest possible intensity on the Japanese seismic scale.It hit Kumamoto Prefecture Thursday night. Officials say about 16,000 people have evacuated. Many people in […]
With cherry trees in full bloom beside a vermilion-lacquered five-story pagoda, and snow-capped Mount Fuji as a backdrop, it’s no wonder tourists are flocking here in droves. The picture-postcard view from Arakurayama Sengen Park, on the slopes of Mount Arakurayama in central Japan, is made complete around this time of the year when 500 “somei-yoshino” […]
Dozens of fire trucks on Tuesday rushed to extinguish a blaze which gutted four buildings in a famed Tokyo bar district. Firefighters struggled for several hours to contain the flames and smoke rising from windows and corrugated metal roofs in the densely packed Golden-gai district, TV footage showed. Golden-gai is a roughly 2,000 square-meter patch […]
A number Filipino nurses and caregivers who seized the opportunity to undergo training in Japan to qualify for work there have ended up returning to the Philippines, including some who passed the tough licensure exam. “The journey to becoming a nurse in Japan was indeed a mission impossible….We were very tired physically, mentally and emotionally […]
Japan’s tallest Ferris wheel will begin operating July 1 at a commercial complex in Osaka, western Japan, according to its operator Ferris Wheel Investment Co. At 123 meters, the Redhorse Osaka Wheel has 72 passenger cabins and takes around 18 minutes to complete one rotation. All the cabins have transparent floors and two—equipped with more […]
A parcel delivery experiment using a drone began on Monday in the Makuhari area in the city of Chiba, east of Tokyo, which has been designated as a national strategic special deregulation zone by the Japanese government. In the day’s test, the drone flew autonomously using the Global Positioning System. It transported a 720-milliliter bottle […]
Shinji Nagao allegedly attempted to burn down his house after killing his brother in an arson attack. Tokyo Metropolitan Police have arrested a 58-year-old man at a Tokyo airport after an arson attack left his disabled brother dead and another attempt resulted in the evacuation of his apartment building, reports Nikkan Sports (April 11). At approximately 4:00 a.m. on […]
Police in Ikoma, Nara Prefecture, have arrested a 39-year-old man on suspicion of killing his 2-year-old son by confining him in a plastic storage case, where he died of hypoxia. According to police, Yusuke Inoue placed his son Yukiya and his 3-year-old daughter in the case at their residence at around 5:50 p.m. on Sunday […]
A 6-year-old girl fell to her death from her family apartment on the 43rd floor of a high-rise building in Osaka’s Abeno Ward in an apparent accident, police said Monday. According to police, at around 2:50 p.m. on Sunday, Momoka Sasaki, an elementary school student, was found at the base of the condominium. She was […]
Police in Kurume, Fukuoka Prefecture, said Sunday they have arrested a 31-year-old university assistant professor for filming up a girl’s skirt. According to police, the suspect, Takao Matsumoto, used a small digital camera hidden in a bag to film up a 14-year-old girl’s skirt in a book store in a shopping complex on Saturday at […]
