More than 12,000 dementia sufferers went missing temporarily in Japan last year, the National Police Agency said Thursday. The number of dementia sufferers who wandered off in 2015 due to the disease came to 12,208 on a police report basis, rewriting a record high for the third straight year since the national police started collecting […]
Residents who are 18 or younger are not allowed on the street without an adult between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. Liquor cannot be sold after 1 a.m. Smoking is banned throughout the city, except in a few designated areas. A party town? Maybe not, but many people who live here in Davao City, where […]
A Japanese man lost his little finger after being attacked by a bear in western Japan on Wednesday, police and reports said, the latest attack by the animals on humans. It came two days after human flesh and hair were found inside the stomach of a bear suspected of attacking at least one of four […]
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck Hokkaido, northern Japan. The jolt registered 6 minus on the Japanese seismic scale of 0 to 7 in Hakodate City.The Meteorological Agency says there is no risk of a tsunami. There is one reported injury so far. A person was injured in a care home for the elderly and […]
The number of foreign visitors to Japan has been increasing at the fastest pace this year, with more than 10 million already visiting the country as of June 5, the head of the Japan Tourism Agency says. It is the fourth consecutive year that the figure has topped 10 million, with the milestone reached this […]
The University of the Philippines (UP) and Ateneo de Manila University (AdMU) were named among the 100 top universities in Asia in an annual list by Quacquarelli Symonds. The QS University Rankings: Asia released Tuesday ranked UP 70th in Asia with an overall score of 58.40, retaining its 2015 ranking. AdMu, meanwhile, scored 47.80 to […]
A 28-year-old man has been arrested in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward on suspicion of attempted murder after he stabbed a male pedestrian who poked him with an umbrella. According to police, the incident occurred at around 6:30 a.m. in the Hyakunincho area of Shinjuku Ward. Fuji TV reported that the suspect, Noriyuki Watanabe, stabbed a 31-year-old […]
A black watermelon grown in Toma, Hokkaido, sold Tuesday for ¥500,000 in the year’s first auction of the popular fruit. Around 260 Densuke watermelons, known for their black and shiny skin as well as their crunchy texture, were auctioned off Tuesday at fresh produce markets in Asahikawa and Sapporo. The all-time record bid was ¥650,000, […]
The separate attacks in Akita prefecture over three weeks may be act of one bear which has got used to human flesh says local vet. People in northern Japan have been warned to stay away from mountain forests after four people were killed in a spate of bear attacks, amid a dramatic rise in the […]
Woman said she also drank drug-laced soup in attempted suicide. A woman was arrested on Monday for allegedly killing her husband by mixing 200 sleeping pills into his miso soup, which she also drank in an attempted suicide. Tochigi Prefectural Police arrested Toshiko Saito, 63, on suspicion of murdering her husband Rokuro Saito, 71, by lacing […]
