The US military in Okinawa, southwestern Japan, has lifted a restriction on off-base drinking by all its personnel and civilian employees.A spokesperson for the military told NHK on Tuesday that the ban on off-base drinking and a requirement for personnel and employees to return to bases or homes by midnight were lifted earlier in the […]
The number of visitors to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum has risen some 40 pct from a year earlier since May 27, when U.S. President Barack Obama visited the facility. The number of visitors from overseas posted a rise of 55.5 pct. According to the operator, the number of visitors between May 28, the day […]
A 17-year-old boy arrested for uploading illegal software is suspected of hacking into the computer system of Saga Prefecture’s board of education. Tokyo police also believe he gained access to a senior high school’s intranet system in the western Japanese prefecture.The boy, who lives in the city of Saga, was arrested earlier this month on […]
A partially skeletonized female body was discovered on the bank of the Arakawa River on Sunday, police said Monday. According to police, the body was found at around 2:30 p.m. on Sunday by a father and child who had gone catching grasshoppers near the river, Fuji TV reported. The body is presumed to belong to […]
Planes, trains, steaks and now melons – it appears that nothing is safe from being branded with the unsmiling yet beloved face of Hello Kitty, Sanrio’s most famous cartoon character. They go on sale in Japan this summer priced at 5,400 yen (S$69) each, after the design of Hello Kitty’s whiskered face was carved into […]
A mudslide triggered by heavy rains has caused a train to partially derail in Hiroshima, western Japan.West Japan Railway Company says a crew member on the San-yo Line reported their train ran into a pile of mud and rocks shortly after 12:30 AM on Thursday. The train’s driver noticed the tracks were covered and immediately […]
Human body parts including a head and a foot were found in a park pond in Tokyo on Thursday. According to police, a visitor to the park noticed a body part floating in the pond at Himonya Park in Meguro Ward at around 10:30 a.m., Fuji TV reported. He notified police at a nearby koban. […]
A knife-wielding man stabbed four women at a shopping mall in Kushiro, Hokkaido on Tuesday, leaving one of them dead and the other three injured, police said. The police arrested the man at the scene. The resident of Kushiro told the police he is suffering from mental illness. “I stabbed the people because I don’t […]
Torrential rain fell across the northern part of Japan’s southwestern region of Kyushu on Wednesday morning.Weather officials are warning of more mudslides and flooding as a front is expected to be active again from Wednesday night through Thursday morning. The front over western Japan dropped more than 80 millimeters of rain per hour in parts […]
The Japanese government has expressed concern over moves of a Chinese intelligence gathering naval ship in an area just outside Japan’s contiguous zone near the Senkaku Islands.Japan controls the islands. The Japanese government maintains the islands are an inherent part of Japan’s territory. China and Taiwan claim them. The Defense Ministry says a Japanese Maritime […]
