Animal experts warn that bears in Japan have become accustomed to such sounds as radios and the ringing of bells used by humans to frighten them away and now may instead be attracted by the sounds as a marker of human prey. In Akita Prefecture, four people assumed to be victims of bear attacks were […]
Nintendo affiliate Pokemon Co. has announced that the Pokemon Go Plus wearable game accessory will not hit the market until September. The accessory to the “Pokemon Go” smartphone game was originally slated for release at the end of this month. The debut is reportedly being postponed because an update to “Pokemon Go” has been delayed and time is required […]
Police in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, have arrested a teenage couple on charges of burying the dead body of their newborn baby girl. According to police, the 16-year-old mother of the baby and the 17-year-old father placed the body of their newborn infant in a bag and buried it in a public park in Takasaki, Gumma […]
The organizing committee of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games will open official shops selling products designed for the Games on Friday.A day earlier, a media preview took place at a shop in Tokyo’s posh Ginza district. Another store is to open in the capital’s Shibuya area. About 100 items line the shelves, including […]
Hiroshima and Nagasaki have asked the developer of Pokemon Go to exclude key places for prayer in the western Japan cities from the sites featured in the blockbuster smartphone game, it was learned Wednesday. According to the Hiroshima municipal government, “PokeStops” where players of the game can obtain “items” are found around Hiroshima Peace Memorial […]
Japanese women relinquished the world’s top spot in average life expectancy at 87.05 years in 2015, overtaken by women from Hong Kong at 87.32 years, according to the welfare ministry’s data released Wednesday. Men in Japan also fell to fourth from third place in 2014 at 80.79 years, data showed. Still, the figures for last […]
Pokemon Go has become a global phenomenon. But managers at many public and private facilities around Japan are telling the developers of the augmented-reality game that they don’t want to play along.Officials at several Japanese railway companies are worried that players absorbed in the game will bump into passengers or fall off platforms. So they’ve […]
Unknown assailant stabbed Chugoku Shimbun deliveryman about 10 times with an ice pick. Hiroshima Prefectural Police are searching for an assailant who stabbed a newspaper deliveryman with an ice pick in Hiroshima City early Wednesday, reports the Yomiuri Shimbun (July 27). At approximately 3:00 a.m., the assailant used a blunt object to strike the head of […]
Japanese police are renewing their call for people not to play the hugely popular smartphone game Pokémon Go while driving a car or riding a bicycle.The National Police Agency is making the appeal after drivers and cyclists have caused 36 accidents since the game debuted in Japan last Friday. Four of them resulted in injuries. […]
A shark is believed to have attacked a 29-year-old man Sunday evening when he was surfing in shallow waters off Irino Beach, a popular surfing spot in Kuroshio, Kochi Prefecture. The local Japan Coast Guard office quoted the man as saying a creature that seemed to be a shark bit his left leg and tried […]
