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The head of an official inquiry into the deadly collapse of a Bangladesh factory complex said the building’s owner was the “main culprit” for the disaster because he violated construction codes. The cave-in of the eight-story Rana Plaza outside the capital last month killed ...
Throughout most of Japan, June is the rainy season. While all that rainfall is great for rice paddies so that we can have delicious new harvest rice in the fall, it makes it a rather dull month for seasonal produce: The summer’s bounty of ...
“I was stopped by two men in a government-registered vehicle, blindfolded and dragged off the street. They took me away to a house in a place I did not know. I was forced into a room with blood all over the walls and floor, ...
Claude Regy says the team at the Shizuoka Performing Arts Center (SPAC) threw him the “best birthday party ever” when he arrived in Japan just days after the actual May 1 occasion. The 90-year-old French director is hoping for an even better birthday gift, ...
As far as debuts go, Shohei Otani's delivered. The celebrated rookie pitched fairly well on Thursday night, and though he finished outside the decision, he left the mound with the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters well within striking distance of the Tokyo Yakult Swallows.
About 30 percent of victims of indecent assaults in Osaka last year were using cellphones, smartphones or portable music players at the time of the attack, Osaka Prefectural Police investigative sources said. Of some 860 indecent assaults reported in 2012 to the prefectural force, about 14 percent of the victims ...
The parents of a dead boy who had Down syndrome have sued an obstetrician in Hokkaido who mistakenly diagnosed an ...
Germany’s resort island of Sylt has been shaken by the death of a celebrated Japanese chef who was roughed up ...
Yahoo Japan Corp. suspects that up to 22 million user IDs may have been stolen during an unauthorized attempt to access the administrative system of its Yahoo! Japan portal.
Since debuting in October as Japan’s first law office catering to foreign nationals, Tokyo Public Law Office Mita Branch — Foreigners and International Service in Minato Ward has been deluged with appointments. And lawyer Masako Suzuki believes there are more non-Japanese in dire need ...
A group of parents filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking ¥890 million in damages from Central Nippon Expressway Co., operator of a tunnel that collapsed in December and killed nine people. In the suit filed at the Yokohama District Court, the families of five of ...
Star chef Miki Nozawa, who built his fame in top-notch restaurants in Italy and Russia, was beaten to death early Monday in Sylt, northern Germany, by two men who dined at his restaurant without paying their bill, local police and media reports said Wednesday. ...
The Line instant messaging app for smartphone users is growing increasingly popular with young people, and now the carrier is faced with a rise in sex-related crimes involving teenage girls. In April, police arrested a 36-year-old man, a registered first-grade architect, on suspicion of ...
A 28-year-old man pleads not guilty in court to charges that he killed the mother and grandmother of a woman he allegedly roughed up and stalked in 2011.
Police were looking for two men Friday who allegedly robbed a 77-year-old woman of nearly ¥10 million after she was lured to Yanaka Cemetery in Taito Ward, Tokyo, on the pretense of bringing cash to help her son out of a jam the previous ...
Six years after a deadly explosion ripped through a spa in Tokyo's bustling Shibuya district, the facility's chief designer is found guilty of negligence.
The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the dismissal of a discrimination lawsuit against the government that demanded an apology and damages over the U.S. firebombing of Tokyo, which claimed tens of thousands of lives in 1945, the top court said Thursday. The five-justice first ...
A Brazilian woman of Japanese descent has filed a lawsuit against the government demanding that she be allowed to re-enter Japan, where her husband lives. Giullyane Futenma, 21, was denied re-entry when her husband Lucas Futenma, 22, also a Japanese-Brazilian, applied for her resident ...
A group of lawyers said Wednesday it plans to file a criminal complaint against Edwin Yoshihiro Fujinaga, president of U.S. asset management firm MRI International Inc., claiming the firm’s mishandling of funds invested by Japanese clients led to massive losses. The Securities and Exchange ...
A 62-year-old woman who served as a citizen judge in a murder case sued the government Tuesday for ¥2 million, arguing her involvement in the trial caused her to suffer acute stress disorder. The resident of Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, was one of the six ...