People in Kyoto celebrated one of their city’s 3 main annual festivals on Sunday.The Aoi Matsuri, or hollyhock festival, originated about 1,400 years ago, when Japan’s emperor had horses gallop in the hopes of bringing a good harvest. 26-year-old Waka Nishimura played the role of the festival’s main figure, dressed in a 12-layer kimono.Nishimura sat […]
A memorial ceremony for former Philippine Ambassador to Japan Domingo Siazon has been held at the Philippine Embassy in Tokyo.Siazon is known as a career diplomat who had a deep knowledge of Japan and a wide range of personal relationships with Japanese people. He contributed greatly to the development of good relations between the 2 […]
Police suspect that Kunio Oniki, 87, strangled her husband to death before hanging herself. Tokyo Metropolitan Police are investigating what is believed to have been a murder-suicide after the bodies of a man and his wife were found inside their residence in Machida City, reportsJiji Press (May 10). At approximately 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, a […]
Tokyo Metropolitan Police have busted a network of Chinese hostess clubs in the Ginza entertainment area for allegedly defrauding multiple customers, reports Fuji News Network (May 11). Police believe that the ring victimized approximately 200 persons for losses totaling 26 million yen between September of last year and February. The ruse typically involved employees of the clubs luring already drunken customers […]
Kanagawa Prefectural Police have arrested 31-year-old man believed to be behind a dozens of women’s underwear thefts in Kawasaki City, reports TBS News (May 8). In January, Tomohiro Honma, a company employee, is alleged to have stolen 12 women’s undergarments from the first-floor balcony of a residence located in Takatsu Ward. Honma, who has been charged with theft, admits […]
A man and his sister are being questioned by police after the discovery of mummified remains inside the home they share. Hokkaido Prefectural Police are questioning a man and his sister after the discovery of a body, believed to be that of their younger sister, inside the residence they all share in Sapporo, reports the […]
Manifesting an unstoppable decline in births, the number of children aged 14 or under in Japan fell for the 35th straight year to a record-low 16.05 million as of April 1, government estimates showed Wednesday. The number was down 150,000 from a year earlier to the lowest level since comparable data became available in 1950. […]
Police in Saitama said Sunday they have arrested a 23-year-old elementary school teacher on suspicion of attempting to steal a man’s wallet on a train. According to police, the suspect, Takeru Terada, tried to lift a wallet containing about 28,000 yen in cash from the back pocket of a man’s pants on the JR Musashino […]
Earthquakes continued on Tuesday in the southwestern Japanese prefecture of Kumamoto as residents struggle to deal with the aftermath of the disaster.More than 1,180 quakes with an intensity of one or higher on the Japanese scale of zero to 7 have occurred since the first massive earthquake on April 14th. The quakes killed 49 people […]
Ayumi Ueda left 50 grams of kakuseizai and a syringe inside the toilet of a McDonald’s. The Osaka District Public Prosecutor’s Office has filed charges of drug trafficking against a 40-year-old woman who left a large quantity of illegal drugs inside a fast-food outlet, reports the Asahi Shimbun (April 30). On April 5, Ayumi Ueda left behind […]
