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Some 96 prison officers will be deployed to schools on Hiroshima Prefecture's Mukaishima island where a fugitive who escaped from prison over a week ago is believed to be hiding, the justice minister said Tuesday. The officers will keep watch around the clock on all ...
Shikoku prison escapee stymies 6,600 police on small island in Seto Inland Sea
Police in Hiroshima and Ehime prefectures have been pursuing the man on Mukaishima Island since he escaped from Matsuyama Prison on April 8.
DNA and fingerprints lead police to arrest man over 2004 murder of Hiroshima teen
Police arrested a 35-year-old man Friday for allegedly killing a 17-year-old high school girl in Hiroshima Prefecture in 2004, saying his DNA and fingerprints matched evidence found at the crime scene. Manabu Kashima, a resident of Ube, Yamaguchi Prefecture, is suspected of stabbing Satomi Kitaguchi ...
Los Alamos museum refuses to host A-bomb exhibit, citing stance on nuclear abolition
A museum in Los Alamos, New Mexico, declines to host Japan’s traveling exhibition on the atomic bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima because of conflicting stances on nuclear abolition.
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus visits Hiroshima peace park
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus visited Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on Tuesday and offered flowers at the cenotaph commemorating victims of the 1945 atomic bombing. Yunus, a Bangladeshi economist who founded Grameen Bank, which provides small loans in poverty-stricken rural areas, vowed to work ...
Nagoya High Court overturns lower court ruling on medical claim by Nagasaki hibakusha siblings
The Nagoya High Court ruled Wednesday that two women who were exposed to the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki should be recognized as sufferers of radiation diseases, overturning a lower court decision that had ruled otherwise. The high court said the siblings — Hatsue Yamada, ...
Solemn Peace Park belies trove of buried A-bomb artifacts
The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, located in Naka Ward, was full of international visitors during the New Year's holiday. Some were from America and Europe, others were Chinese speakers and women from Islamic nations could also be seen. People stood in line to pray ...
Obama to visit Japan this month; North talks with Abe in works: source
Former U.S. President Barack Obama is likely to visit Japan later this month and might hold talks with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe about North Korea, a Japanese government source said Monday. According to the source, final arrangements are being made and the visit is most ...
Japan decides to fund the global travels of its A-bomb storytellers to make it easier for schools and other interested parties to host them.
Snow and spirituality in Tottori: Winter on a sacred peak
Mount Daisen in Tottori Prefecture is the largest mountain in the Chugoku region of western Honshu. An isolated peak with views over the Sea of Japan, the mountain stands at 1,729 meters and gets plenty of snow in the winter, making it one of ...
A man was arrested Monday on suspicion of stabbing two men the previous night, one fatally, in what appeared to be random attacks, the police said. The alleged stabbings took place on a street in Asakita Ward, Hiroshima, about 800 meters northeast of Kodohomachigawa Station. The ...
The leader of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, which won last year's Nobel Peace Prize, has been denied a meeting with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the nongovernmental organization Peace Boat said Monday. ICAN has asked the Japanese government twice since late December to ...
