Apr 25, 2013

Mom, boyfriend held over abandonment of child's body

A 30-year-old woman and a 28-year-old man were held on suspicion of abandoning her daughter’s body in Yokohama, police said Wednesday. Yukie Yamaguchi and Ryuichi Yatsui have admitted to burying Yamaguchi’s daughter, Airi, 6, in July in some bushes in Isogo Ward. Police found ...

Apr 11, 2013

Yokohama errs, tweets launch alert

by Tomohiro Osaki

The Yokohama Municipal Government mistakenly alerted its Twitter followers Wednesday morning that North Korea had launched a missile, only to apologize 20 minutes later for the error. The city’s crisis-management office sent out the alert around 11 a.m. Tensions with the North continue to ...

Rare piano to return to Yokohama's Chinatown

Mar 26, 2013

Rare piano to return to Yokohama's Chinatown

by Kaori Watahiki

A rare piano produced in Yokohama’s Chinatown about 100 years ago is about to return home as a donation to Yokohama Yamate Chinese School. The piano, donated by a 65-year-old woman in Aichi Prefecture, was made by Zhou Xiaosheng, who came to Japan in ...

Mar 7, 2013

Japan to host May summit on Africa resources

Japan will invite ministers from about a dozen African nations for a May 18 meeting in Tokyo to discuss cooperation in the area of natural resources, trade minister Toshimitsu Motegi said Tuesday. “We hope it will be an opportunity to create new ties with ...

Jan 18, 2013

IPCC to hold general meeting in Yokohama

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will hold its 38th general meeting, and first in Japan, in Yokohama in March 2014, the Environment Ministry said Wednesday. An organization of global warming researchers, the IPCC won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. The panel is working ...