Tokyo police have arrested 4 members of a criminal gang affiliated with Japan’s largest yakuza syndicate, the Yamaguchi-gumi, in possible connection with an ongoing conflict between groups.Investigators say the four allegedly beat up a 35-year-old man in the Kabukicho entertainment district in Shinjuku on February 15th. The attack was caught on video and posted online. […]
The Imperial Household Agency says it will increase opportunities for the public to visit the grounds of the Imperial Palaces in Kyoto and Tokyo.The Agency says it will open the palace compound in Japan’s ancient capital of Kyoto year-round instead of only for 5 days each in the spring and fall.The palace includes buildings where […]
Honda has put on sale a new fuel-cell vehicle that can travel 30 percent longer on a single charge of hydrogen, compared with previous models.Fuel-cell vehicles run on electricity generated by combining hydrogen in a storage tank with oxygen in the air. The tail pipe emits water only. Honda engineers say the new model can […]
Police in Gamagori, Aichi Prefecture, said Thursday that a 73-year-old woman was found dead at her home with a cord tied around her neck. At around 10 p.m., on Thursday, Katsuyo Sugiura was found dead, face up in a tatami room on the first floor of her residence, Fuji TV reported. Her son, who lives […]
A ceremony of remembrance has been held in Tokyo for the victims of the earthquake and tsunami that struck northeastern Japan on March 11th, 2011.About 1,200 people attended the government-sponsored event on Friday, the 5th anniversary of the disaster that also triggered the nuclear plant accident in Fukushima.Emperor Akihito, Empress Michiko, and Prime Minister Shinzo […]
The Philippines is seen as one of the markets that will lead printing growth in Southeast Asia, which is poised to become the global production center for the industry over the next four years, a global printing company said. “Within Epson, the Philippines now ranks No. 3. It came out from No. 4 last year,” […]
According to the board, some cities in Chiba Prefecture, including Kashiwa, Nagareyama, Noda and Abiko, are considering entirely abolishing kumitaiso. Injuries from kumitaiso, a form of physical education in which people use their bodies to express shapes, including human pyramids, numbered 432 cases in the last fiscal year at elementary and junior high schools in […]
Hyogo Prefectural Police on Wednesday arrested a 48-year-old housewife in Nishinomiya City for attempting to kill her husband by poisoning his alcohol, reports the Sankei Shimbun (Mar. 10). Earlier this month, Fusako Okawa is alleged to have added methanol to sake consumed by her husband Hiroaki, a 59-year-old company employee. Okawa, who has been charged with attempted murder, admits to […]
After the boy’s suicide, the school officially recognized its mistake. The principal of a junior high school in Hiroshima Prefecture apologized Wednesday after his school last year refused to support a graduating student’s high school entrance application due to an error in its records, leading to the boy committing suicide. The 15-year-old killed himself on […]
The Philippines is to lease from Japan five aircraft to help patrol the disputed South China Sea, President Benigno Aquino announced on Wednesday, as China expands its military presence in the region. The Philippine military, for decades preoccupied with domestic insurgencies, has been shifting its focus to territorial defence, allocating 83 billion pesos ($1.77 billion) […]
