Leaders of Shimane, Hiroshima, Kochi and Ehime call for efforts to ensure residents’ safety following Pyongyang’s threat to launch missiles over Japan to waters near Guam.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's struggles continued Tuesday at a special Diet session held to probe the Kake Gakuen scandal, as opposition lawmakers pointed out contradictions in his past remarks on when he learned about the school operator's plan to apply for a special government ...
A court on Friday rejected a plea from residents to halt a reactor operating at the Ikata nuclear power plant in western Japan, amid concerns about the robustness of an evacuation plan in the event of an accident. The Matsuyama District Court ruled against the ...
The long-running joke that orange juice flows like water in Ehime Prefecture is now a reality as a new refreshment stand featuring a unique faucet opened Thursday at Matsuyama airport. At the stand, named the Orange Bar, customers can serve themselves the juice of local ...
Japan's first counterterrorism drill simulating a drone attack on a nuclear power plant took place Monday in Ehime Prefecture. Some 60 people from the police and Japan Coast Guard participated in the exercise at the Ikata nuclear power plant, which simulated a drone launched from ...
One day in May, a woman in her 40s was browsing a tablet computer at a municipality-funded matchmaking center, searching for a prospective husband. She was surprised; the computer suggested candidates she wouldn't have otherwise considered. "It recommends people who were under my radar," she ...
On Thursday a former top ministry official dropped a bombshell in a hastily held news conference in Tokyo. Kihei Maekawa, former vice minister of education, alleged that the Cabinet Office distorted administrative processes by citing the intent of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in approving a ...
An opposition lawmaker says a document has been found suggesting the prime minister was involved in a government decision to approve the subsidized construction of a new university department run by a friend.
Blood on a pair of sneakers belonging to a woman who killed herself last week after being questioned by police about a murder in Imabari, Ehime Prefecture, has DNA that matches that of the victim, investigative sources said Monday. The sources also said that blood ...
A woman in her 30s committed suicide shortly after being questioned over her possible involvement in a murder two days earlier in Imabari, Ehime Prefecture, police said Friday. The woman was found dead in a building in Imabari on Friday morning when investigators arrived to ...
A 49-year-old resident who admitted starting a fire in her room at a facility for the disabled in Shikoku is arrested on suspicion of arson leading to the death of three others who lived there.
The Ehime Prefectural Government held an evacuation exercise around Shikoku Electric Power Co.'s Ikata nuclear power plant, the first of its kind since the Aug. 12 restart of the facility's No. 3 reactor. Some 400 residents in the town of Ikata took part to check ...
