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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
Two people were injured Tuesday when a college rowing cutter capsized between Tomogashima groups of islands near the city of Wakayama and Awaji Island in Hyogo Prefecture, pitching the 23 people aboard into the ocean. One crew member clung to the hull and was rescued ...
Transport safety body says accidents involving water scooters, banana boats on the rise in Japan
The Japan Transport Safety Board, an affiliate of the transport ministry, has issued a warning as accidents involving water scooters have been rising recently. In the 10 years to 2018, a total of 454 accidents involving the vehicles occurred, leaving 59 people dead and 510 ...
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
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
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 ...
The body of a suspected stowaway who fell to his death from a Kenya Airways plane landed next to a man sunbathing in his garden in southwest London, a neighbor said. Police believe the victim fell onto the property in Clapham from the landing gear ...
Deadly collapse of Chinese-owned building in Cambodia raises questions over hasty development
Rescue workers on Sunday picked through the rubble of a collapsed Chinese-owned building in a Cambodian beach town in a desperate search for survivors, after the construction site accident killed at least 17 people. One person was pulled alive from the flattened seven-story building late ...
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 ...
