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AMAGASAKI

Domino's Pizza Japan has apologized for a video of its employee pretending to pick his nose and wipe it on pizza dough.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Feb 13, 2024
Domino's apologizes over online video of employee's pizza antics
The pizza delivery giant's move came after a video surfaced online Monday of an employee pretending to pick his nose and wipe it on pizza dough.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 25, 2023
Families and survivors mark 18 years since fatal JR West derailment
JR West President Kazuaki Hasegawa vowed to build 'a safer railway' in the ceremony hosted by the company at the accident site in Hyogo Prefecture.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 24, 2022
Lost USB memory sticks with data on Japanese city's residents found
Suita police officers and a worker found a bag containing the USB sticks outside an apartment building in Suita, Osaka Prefecture.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 23, 2022
Japanese city loses memory drive with information on all 460,000 residents
The lost data included the residents' names, addresses and dates of birth, as well as the bank account numbers of welfare-receiving households, among other information.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 17, 2021
Police arrest ex-husband over deadly stabbing of Hyogo woman
Police were on Saturday questioning the ex-husband of a 28-year-old woman who was stabbed to death a day earlier at her apartment complex in the city of Amagasaki.
JAPAN
Dec 18, 2019
Family to seek damages over suicide of Mitsubishi Electric recruit after series of deaths at firm
The bereaved family of a Mitsubishi Electric Corp. recruit who killed himself in August will claim workers' compensation and file a damages lawsuit against the company, as they believe the suicide was the result of verbal abuse from a superior, their lawyers said Wednesday.
Japan Times
PARALYMPICS / Summer Paralympics
Sep 4, 2019
Survivor of Amagasaki train derailment aiming for bull's eye at 2020 Paralympics
Having overcome numerous challenges since suffering life-altering injuries in a deadly train derailment in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, in 2005, Aiko Okazaki doesn't plan to go easy on herself when it comes to her latest test — competing in archery in the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 25, 2019
Families and survivors mark anniversary of 2005 Amagasaki derailment that killed 107
Some 500 survivors and family members of victims of a 2005 train derailment that killed 107 people gathered Thursday to mark the 14th anniversary of the crash at a ceremony, which was held for the first time at a newly built memorial facility.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
May 20, 2016
Hyogo man with apparent noise gripe held in deadly attack on neighbor, visiting daughter
A man was arrested in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, on Thursday on suspicion of fatally attacking a mother and daughter over noise issues in their apartment building.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 25, 2016
Families and survivors mark 11th anniversary of deadly train wreck in western Japan
Survivors and relatives of victims marked Monday the 11th anniversary of the train derailment in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, that killed 107 people.
JAPAN
Dec 4, 2015
JR West to stop punishing crews for errors to prevent cover-ups
West Japan Railway Co. will ease disciplinary measures for train crews to prevent them from covering up errors, company officials said Friday, in what is the first such attempt in the industry.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 13, 2015
Ringleader's cousin gets life term over Amagasaki murders
A 41-year-old man was sentenced to life in prison Friday over the deaths of three of eight people slain in a series of murders believed to have been masterminded by a woman from Amagasaki.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 25, 2015
Decade after Amagasaki, crash victims can't let go
Survivors and kin of the 107 people killed by the Amagasaki train derailment in Hyogo Prefecture mark the 10th anniversary of the crash.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 18, 2015
Sumida son given 17 years for his role in Amagasaki killings
The second son of alleged criminal matriarch Miyoko Sumida was sentenced to 17 years in jail on Wednesday for his part in a spate of bizarre deaths linked to the family.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 28, 2014
Panasonic in talks to sell Hyogo plasma factory
Panasonic Corp. is in the final stage of talks with a real estate investment advisory company to sell its plasma display panel factory in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, according to sources.
JAPAN
Dec 12, 2013
Woman charged in sex assault on boy, 15
A 43-year-old unemployed woman from Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, has been charged with indecent assault on a 15-year-old boy after confining him in her apartment and ordering six teenagers to abuse him, prosecutors said.
EDITORIALS
Oct 1, 2013
Acquittal of JR West presidents
The acquittal of three ex-presidents of JR West in the 2005 Amagasaki train derailment that killed 107 people does not absolve the corporate culture thought to have led to the accident.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 26, 2013
Victims of Amagasaki train derailment honored
A memorial ceremony was held Thursday for the 107 people killed in the horrific train derailment in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture in 2005, marking the eighth anniversary of the accident.

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