Five Japanese and three Chinese men were arrested Thursday for allegedly smuggling 206 kg of gold by ship into a port in Kyushu, law enforcement authorities said. If verified, it would be Japan’s largest gold-smuggling case ever. The local customs house is trying to ...
A poster designed six years ago in an apparent bid to promote patriotism has recently gone viral on social media thanks to its catchphrase, which has revived public debate on race, and the revelation that its smiling model is actually Chinese. The poster, which ...
The Metropolitan Police Department has issued arrest warrants for two Chinese women who allegedly vandalized facilities at the revered Meiji Shrine in Shibuya Ward. The Shinto facility, built in 1920, is dedicated to the deified spirits of Emperor Meiji and Empress Shoken. It is ...
The government has begun cracking down on unauthorized tourist-related businesses that are allegedly taking advantage of visitors from abroad. Such scams include travel agencies that involve “land operators” (tour service operators), that arrange lodging, shopping and other holiday activities. Shady land operators, for example, ...
An Osaka kindergarten principal suspected of fomenting hate speech is questioned after distributing documents to students’ parents filled with disparaging comments about Korean residents and Chinese.
Even in the 21st century, a whole bunch of difficult, nonstandard and archaic kanji don't appear to be in any danger of being phased out.
Three Chinese citizens have been criminally charged in the United States with trading on confidential corporate information obtained by hacking into networks and servers of law firms working on mergers, U.S. prosecutors said on Tuesday. Iat Hong of Macau, Bo Zheng of Changsha, China, ...
Sad and angry, the Chinese community in Rome on Sunday paid tribute to a student fatally hit by a train while pursuing muggers who had stolen her purse with her just-issued residency permit. An aspiring fashion designer, 20-year-old Zhang Yao arrived in the Italian ...
A Chinese graduate student has been charged with the murder earlier this month of a Chinese woman who harbored his former girlfriend after they broke up. Chen Shifeng, 25, has been in custody for allegedly threatening his ex-girlfriend, who was not named. He is ...
South African police Thursday said they had arrested a Hong Kong-bound Chinese man found with 18 rhino horns hidden in his luggage. He was detained on Wednesday at Johannesburg’s OR Tambo International Airport after an anonymous tipoff. “The 28-year-old male, who was in transit ...
A Chinese woman in her 20s was found bleeding from her neck in Tokyo’s Nakano Ward early Thursday and was later confirmed dead at a hospital, police said. The police found the woman with several stab wounds in the neck and cuts on her ...
Police plan to serve a fresh arrest warrant soon on a Chinese man in custody on suspicion of killing his wife at their home in Tokyo, investigative sources said Thursday. Zhou Shichao, 37, was arrested in July for allegedly dumping the body of his ...
