A 96-year-old man in western Japan expressed his joy on Friday at being recognized as the world’s oldest university graduate. “I am genuinely happy. Learning is always fun at any age,” said Shigemi Hirata, who met reporters at his home in Takamatsu, showing his new Guinness World Records certificate. Born on Sept. 1, 1919, Hirata […]
Japanese police have confiscated written instructions believed to have been used in a surge of cash withdrawals from ATMs made using forged credit cards.Police say people took out a total of more than 1.8 billion yen, or about 17 million dollars, from about 1,700 automated teller machines across Japan on May 15th. The transactions took […]
China has urged the Philippines to stop its bid to have an international court settle their territorial disputes in the South China Sea.China claims jurisdiction over almost all of the sea.The Philippines has filed an appeal with the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, saying China’s claims are unacceptable under international law. The court […]
UN rights experts on Monday urged President-elect Rodrigo Duterte to stop instigating deadly violence, especially against journalists, slamming his comments as dangerously irresponsible. UN expert on summary executions Christof Heyns described recent remarks by Duterte as “irresponsible in the extreme, and unbecoming of any leader.” Duterte, 71, who won the presidential election last month, on […]
Teenage girls were standing in front of suspect on ascending escalators. An off-duty senior police officer was arrested on Monday after he was caught taking illicit footage of two teenage high school girls. Takehito Fukuda, 25, a senior officer of the Chiba Chuo Police Station, was arrested and charged with voyeurism under the nuisance prevention […]
The boy who was left alone in a mountain forest in Hokkaido, northern Japan, for 6 days, has been discharged from hospital.Yamato Tanooka was flown to the hospital in Hakodate City on Friday after being discovered in a hut at a Ground Self-Defense Force exercise range.He left the hospital with his parents on Tuesday afternoon, […]
Police in Tokyo’s Adachi Ward said Sunday they have arrested an unemployed 38-year-old man on suspicion of kidnapping a 4-year-old girl. According to police, the suspect, Teruhiko Seto, abducted the girl, who was playing at a park, on May 14. Fuji TV quoted police as saying he led the girl way to a nearby convenience […]
A Baptist Church pastor, who actively campaigned against illegal drugs, was shot dead by two unidentified men in the Barangay Bonbon, Cebu City, Sunday afternoon. Crisostomo Maternal Jr., an evangelist of the Bonbon Mission Church, was driving his motorcycle on his way home when two motorcycle-riding men shot him past 5 p.m. The 46-year-old pastor […]
An estimated 15,000 people die annually in Japan from stroke, lung cancer or other diseases caused by passive smoking, according to a study by a health ministry research team. Deaths due to stroke account for more than half of the total, the ministry said Monday. The findings show that 8,010 people will die from stroke, […]
A Japanese government survey shows workers took home higher real wages in April. It’s the 3rd straight month of increase.Labor ministry officials say the average income was nearly 275,000 yen, or about 2,500 dollars. That’s up 0.6 percent from a year earlier, when adjusted for inflation.The officials say the rise was due to a base […]
