Japan Invitational Basketball League
Join this sports event that will be held in Kani-shi, Gifu Prefecture. Japan Invitational Basketbal League Date: July 31, 2016 Time: 11 a.m to 8 p.m Venue: Hiromi Gym (Gifu-ken, Kani-shi) Tel: 0574-62-2101
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3 arrested for selling waste-bound beef cutlets
Police have arrested 3 men suspected of involvement in the illicit resale of more than 30,000 beef cutlets bound for the dump.Two of the suspects are Kazuyuki Onishi, the head of Daiko, an industrial waste disposal firm in Aichi Prefecture, and Masao Okada, the former manager of Minori Foods in Gifu Prefecture. In January, frozen […]
High-end grapes fetch record price at auction
A bunch of high-end grapes has fetched a record price of 11,000 dollars in the first auction of the year in Japan.The auction of the “Ruby Roman” variety was held on Thursday in Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture, on the Sea of Japan coast. A supermarket operator placed the highest bid. There are more than 30 […]
Self-driving bus to begin service near Tokyo
A major Japanese IT firm says it will launch a driverless bus service at a park near Tokyo next month.DeNA got help on the project from a French venture company that develops self-driving technology.DeNA says it will offer the service in a park next to a shopping mall in Chiba City. The bus can carry […]
Japan’s biggest banks to launch 24-hour money transfers
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp., Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ and Mizuho Bank are planning to start allowing immediate money transfer services 24 hours a day. Sumitomo Mitsui said Monday it will start offering money transfer services between its accounts 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, starting next February at the earliest. At present, money […]
Super Typhoon Nepartak to unleash damaging winds and flooding
Super Typhoon Nepartak will target Taiwan and Japan’s southern Ryukyu Islands with flooding rain and damaging winds later this week. Threats to Eastern China will then follow. Nepartak rapidly intensified into a super typhoon early Wednesday local time with sustained winds reaching 278 km/h (173 mph). Lives and property will be severely threatened as Nepartak […]
Boy admits stabbing woman to death with ice pick
Suspect told police he stabbed woman before dumping her body in a river. Ibaraki Prefectural Police have arrested a 16-year-old boy who has admitted to stabbing a woman to death before dumping her body in Ryugasaki City, reports Nippon News Network (July 6). Police arrested the boy, a second-year high school student from Tsukuba City, for dumping […]
Man given 4 1/2-year prison term for cutting off lawyer’s penis
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 erupts in Kyoto’s Pontocho alley
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 […]
Woman released cockroaches in Kobe market
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 […]
