A 71-year-old nurse has been arrested on a charge of attempted murder after allegedly drugging the drinks of two people and causing them to have a car accident, the Chiba Prefectural Police said. Police arrested Aiko Hatano on Tuesday for allegedly letting a 69-year-old woman ...
Radiation levels exceeding the government-set safety limit of 0.23 microsieverts per hour have been detected on the grounds of five schools in the city of Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, the prefectural board of education said Monday. Between late April and mid-May, the board officials detected radiation ...
Japanese researchers have applied to have a new geological age based on ancient strata in Chiba Prefecture named "Chibanian." The strata illustrate the Earth's most recent switch in magnetic poles during a period from 126,000 to 770,000 years ago. The period has been proposed as ...
Local governments outside Tokyo that are slated to host Olympic competitions agreed Wednesday on basic principles concerning cost sharing with the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, the central government and organizers.
The last of four students indicted over last year’s gang rape in Chiba Prefecture is handed the heaviest sentence in the case: four years in prison.
Chiba Mayor Toshihito Kumagai on Sunday easily won re-election to a third four-year term as voters backed the administrative and fiscal reforms he has promoted for the past eight years. Kumagai, 39, defeated Takashi Ono, 48, who was backed by the Japanese Communist Party, to ...
Widely seen as the wave of the future, electric vehicles have faced a serious hurdle in pushing the technology to match or surpass the distance that traditional vehicles can drive in a single charge. To overcome this hurdle, a research group at the University of ...
A motorcycle attack on a yakuza-filled van in Chiba Prefecture has left one man injured and bleeding from the head, police said. The shooting took place Wednesday evening at an intersection on National Route 6 in Matsudo, and close to a police station, investigative sources ...
Dogs are not only loving companions. They could also be our most reliable weapon against cancer. In a Japan first, a small, agrarian community in Yamagata Prefecture will start using specially trained dogs this month to screen its residents for cancer. If the pilot project in ...
At first glance, it's hard to believe a small, cute deer-like animal can do any harm. But the alien species Reeves's muntjac — called kyon in Japanese — is now increasing in numbers at an explosive pace on the Boso Peninsula in Chiba Prefecture, causing ...
The suspect in the slaying of a Vietnamese girl in Chiba is served a fresh warrant for murder and is accused of performing obscene acts against her.
A man detained in connection to the slaying of a 9-year-old Vietnamese girl in Chiba Prefecture will be served a warrant on Friday charging him with murder, sources say.
