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Dismembered body parts thought to belong to missing Chiba woman; police question son
Chiba police question the son of a 75-year-old missing woman after body parts believed to be hers were found at a coastal site.
Around 270 elementary and junior high school students got to meet American sprinter and Olympian Mike Rodgers on Sunday, when he coached a training event in Narita, Chiba Prefecture. Rodgers, who participated in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, as well as hurdler Sharika Nelvis ...
Faced with crop destruction, Chiba city fosters hunting and serving wild game as enterprise
The city of Kimitsu, Chiba Prefecture, has set up a "business school for hunting" that provides courses introducing people to the pursuit of game and encouraging them to consider it as a livelihood. The city has been battling destruction of its agricultural crops by wild ...
Human head found near coast of Chiba Prefecture, not far from where limbless body was found
A head that appeared to have been deliberately severed from its body was found near the coast close to the town of Kujukuri in Chiba Prefecture on Tuesday, only several kilometers away from where a limbless body of a woman was found last month, ...
Fisherman finds dismembered woman's body in Chiba Prefecture river
The dismembered body of what appeared to be a middle-aged or elderly woman's was found Saturday near the Pacific coast in Chiba Prefecture. A man fishing on a river in the city of Oamishirasato called police in the morning after discovering the decapitated body, police ...
Free the kids from the concrete jungle
Tokyo may be one of the most populous cities in the world, but it is also just a few hours by train from family friendly hiking trails
Activists alarmed over bottlenose dolphin, penguins abandoned at closed Japanese aquarium
The plight of a lonely bottlenose dolphin and dozens of penguins that have been abandoned in a derelict aquarium since the start of the year sparked protests this week, with activists and ordinary people alike calling for the animals to be saved. The female dolphin, ...
Chiba to issue nonbinding certificates recognizing same-sex and common-law couples
The prefecture says it will be the first to issue such certificates to common-law couples and will ask hospitals and other entities to “cooperate.”
Typhoon Shanshan spares most of Tokyo, and commuters, as it crawls north off Pacific coast
Typhoon Shanshan slowly moved northward off the Pacific coast of Japan on Thursday after mostly missing Tokyo, with the weather agency now warning of heavy rain and high waves in the eastern and northeastern regions of the country. But the Meteorological Agency said the storm ...
Strong earthquake rocks Tokyo, nearby parts of eastern Japan
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.0 rocked eastern Japan, including Tokyo, on Saturday evening, the Meteorological Agency said. No tsunami warning was issued. The temblor registered lower 5 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale of 7 in eastern Chiba Prefecture. Narita airport in Chiba Prefecture ...
A court sentenced the former head of a parents' group at an elementary school in Chiba Prefecture to life in prison Friday over the 2017 murder of a 9-year-old Vietnamese girl who attended the school. While Yasumasa Shibuya has denied involvement in the death of ...
School uniforms go unisex as Japanese schools seek better fit for LGBT students
An emerging number of Japanese schools are introducing unisex uniforms or flexible uniform codes in an effort to support lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students. School officials hope the move will ease the mental anguish of such students, who are usually required to wear gender-based ...
