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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
Suspect wrote about wanting to kill the kids and himself, police say. A man was arrested on Monday for allegedly driving his car into elementary students to try to kill them before he doused himself in oil and plunged a knife into his stomach. Gifu police arrested Harumi Washimi, 68, on attempted murder and hit-and-run […]
A Japanese government plane carrying the bodies of 7 Japanese nationals killed at a restaurant in Dhaka, Bangladesh, has arrived in Tokyo.The aircraft landed at Haneda Airport at around 5:50 AM on Tuesday. On board were the 7 victims and their bereaved family members, as well as officials of companies where the deceased worked.Foreign Minister […]
Extreme heat, reaching sometimes 38.6 degrees, caused hospitalization of 530 people, according to local media. At least 530 people were hospitalized with heat stroke on Sunday in Japan, where in 42 districts the air temperature exceeded 35 degrees Celsius, reaching sometimes 38.6 degrees, local media reported. According to the Kyodo news agency, four people lost […]
