A 42-year-old man has been sentenced to death for killing five people on Awaji Island in Hyogo Prefecture in 2015. Tatsuhiko Hirano's mental condition was "normal" when he carried out the killings, Presiding Judge Hidenori Nagai said Wednesday in handing down the ruling at the ...
Strike a light! It's the end of the household match for Kanematsu-NNK Corp., which will cease production at the end of this fiscal year. The nation's leading maker of household matches said Tuesday that its sole remaining manufacturing line at a plant in Awaji, Hyogo ...
Amid the national debate over Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's proactive security policy and newly enacted laws, a state-of-the-art minesweeper built for the Maritime Self-Defense Force was launched Tuesday in a ceremony in Yokohama. The 690-ton Awaji is the first of three planned Awaji-class minesweepers, which ...
