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Girl, 8, drowns at Tokyo amusement park Toshimaen; body found under inflatable island

National Aug 16, 2019

Girl, 8, drowns at Tokyo amusement park Toshimaen; body found under inflatable island

An 8-year-old girl was confirmed dead at a Tokyo hospital Thursday after being found underneath an inflatable island in a swimming pool at Toshimaen amusement park. According to the Metropolitan Police Department, Yuka Morimoto of Asaka, Saitama Prefecture, likely drowned after getting trapped under the ...

National Aug 13, 2019

13 die across Japan while taking part in leisure activities during public holiday

Thirteen people died and at least 27 were injured across the country during leisure activities Monday, a public holiday, according to a Kyodo News tally collected Tuesday. At a beach in Tahara, Aichi Prefecture, a pair of elementary school-aged brothers were found to be drowning, ...

National Aug 8, 2019

Globe-trotting Japanese cyclist dies in road accident in Peru

A Japanese man traveling around the world by bicycle died of a head injury after being hit by a truck Sunday in northwestern Peru, according to local news reports. The accident took place on Sunday in the La Libertad region. The man was later confirmed ...

Japan Times 1919: Women go on strike for first time in Japan

National / History | JAPAN TIMES GONE BY Aug 3, 2019

Japan Times 1919: Women go on strike for first time in Japan

Over 100 female workers employed at a silk reeling factory in Maebashi struck, demanding a 50 percent increase in wages.

Two South Koreans dead and water polo athletes hurt in nightclub collapse in Gwangju

Asia Pacific Jul 27, 2019

Two South Koreans dead and water polo athletes hurt in nightclub collapse in Gwangju

Two South Koreans died and several others, including athletes participating in the World Aquatics Championships, were injured when an upper floor of a nightclub collapsed in the southern city of Gwangju early on Saturday, a fire department official said. At least 10 people were injured ...

Five tons of fish scatter across 500 meters of highway in Osaka Prefecture

National Jul 4, 2019

Five tons of fish scatter across 500 meters of highway in Osaka Prefecture

Five tons of bonito fish fell from a refrigerator truck and were scattered across an expressway in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, on Thursday morning, police said. The frozen fish were dispersed over 500 meters of highway near the Miharaminami Interchange of the Hanwa Expressway linking Osaka ...

Duterte accepts Beijing's proposal to jointly investigate allegation that Chinese vessel abandoned 22 Filipinos after sinking their boat

Asia Pacific Jun 22, 2019

Duterte accepts Beijing's proposal to jointly investigate allegation that Chinese vessel abandoned 22 Filipinos after sinking their boat

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has accepted China's proposal to jointly investigate allegations that a Chinese fishing vessel abandoned 22 Filipinos after it sank their boat in the South China Sea, his spokesman said on Saturday. But aside from China and the Philippines, Duterte wants a ...

Bus with technology that automatically stops vehicle after detecting health problems with driver to debut

Business / Corporate Jun 15, 2019

Bus with technology that automatically stops vehicle after detecting health problems with driver to debut

Japanese truck and bus maker Hino Motors Ltd. said Friday it will roll out a bus with technology capable of automatically stopping the vehicle if it senses something is wrong with the driver, the first introduction of such a system for a commercial vehicle ...

Man had strangled female passenger before driving car off cliff in Aomori Prefecture, police say

National Jun 11, 2019

Man had strangled female passenger before driving car off cliff in Aomori Prefecture, police say

An autopsy has found that a woman, initially believed to have died with a man when a car drove off a cliff in Aomori Prefecture, was strangled to death before the incident, police said Tuesday. The police said they suspect the 39-year-old man, Masatoshi Ikejima, ...

Boeing delayed fix of defective 737 MAX warning light for three years, lawmakers say

Business Jun 8, 2019

Boeing delayed fix of defective 737 MAX warning light for three years, lawmakers say

Boeing Co. learned that a cockpit warning light on its 737 MAX jetliner was defective in 2017 but decided to defer fixing it until 2020, U.S. lawmakers said on Friday. The defective warning light alerts pilots when two sensors that measure the angle between the ...

Elderly driver, 81, and wife die after their speeding car slams into vehicle at intersection in Fukuoka

National Jun 5, 2019

Elderly driver, 81, and wife die after their speeding car slams into vehicle at intersection in Fukuoka

An elderly driver and his wife died after their speeding car entered an intersection and hit a vehicle attempting to turn in the city of Fukuoka on Tuesday night, spurring an accident that involved at least four other vehicles, police said. A total of nine ...

Amid high-profile accidents involving elderly drivers, survey finds 1 in 4 people in Japan over 80 still drive

National Jun 4, 2019

Amid high-profile accidents involving elderly drivers, survey finds 1 in 4 people in Japan over 80 still drive

The rate who said they drive was higher in rural areas, where transportation services are limited, indicating cars are essential for everyday trips.

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