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 […]
The information center at the 5th station of Japan’s iconic Mount Fuji has opened, kicking off the 2016 tourist season. The center offers information in 7 languages.The Yamanashi prefectural government started operations at the center on Sunday. The 5th station on the Yoshidaguchi climbing route is now accessible by bus. More than 10 nature park […]
The Kyushu Shinkansen is now operating along its entire route after a 13-day suspension triggered by the earthquakes in southwestern Japan.A bullet train for Kagoshima Chuo station left Hakata station shortly past 2:30 PM on Wednesday. Officials with Kyushu Railway Company said service on Wednesday will be slower, with fewer trains, which will stop at […]
