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Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 30, 2014
Ibaraki woman cooks croquettes to cheer up hometown
A 72-year-old woman decided to fry up some croquettes 14 years ago to cheer up her hometown, which was in the doldrums at the time.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 29, 2014
Japan Atomic Energy Agency to close nuclear fuel reprocessing plant
The Japan Atomic Energy Agency said Monday it will close its nuclear fuel reprocessing plant because it would cost too much to meet tighter safety regulations adopted following the 2011 Fukushima crisis.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 11, 2014
Ibaraki man brings body to police station, admits killing girlfriend
An Ibaraki Prefecture man drove to a police station Sunday with a woman's corpse wrapped up in the back seat of his car, and he confessed to killing his girlfriend.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 1, 2014
SoftBank unit, partner to build 100-MW wind-power station off Ibaraki
SoftBank Corp.'s clean-energy unit and a partner will build a 100-megawatt wind-power station off the coast of Ibaraki Prefecture.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / OSAKA RESTAURANTS
Apr 22, 2014
Cafe Ibaraki Yu: Former bathhouse offers a bite of the old days
The city of Ibaraki in the north of Osaka is home to Tadao Ando's Church of the Light, a modernist concrete masterpiece. Out of the spotlight, another architect in Ibaraki has been quietly but busily breathing life into buildings whose glory days would otherwise be behind them. Cafe Ibaraki Yu might...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 13, 2014
Ex-mayor of nation's nuclear birthplace comes out swinging against atomic power
The former mayor of a village that had a pioneering role in the nation's nuclear development expresses his opposition to the country continuing to look to nuclear power as an energy source.
JAPAN
Feb 26, 2014
Japan to return weapons-grade plutonium U.S. provided during Cold War
Japan plans to return, at the request of Washington, plutonium provided by the United States for research purposes during the Cold War, government sources said Tuesday.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Feb 17, 2014
Filipino academic community in Japan unites to aid typhoon-hit homeland
Reggy Figer saw the news. A rapidly intensifying typhoon was heading towards his family in Tacloban. Concerned and nearly 3,000 km away in Nagoya, Figer sent a text message to his sister, Aileen Rose Figer-Peru, asking her to go to his parents' home.
JAPAN
Jan 27, 2014
Return arms-grade plutonium: U.S.
Washington is pressuring a reluctant Tokyo to return over 300 kg of mostly weapons-grade plutonium it let Japan experiment with during the Cold War.
JAPAN
Dec 22, 2013
Ibaraki teen arrested for allegedly stabbing her friend
An 18-year-old Ibaraki teen is held on suspicion of attempted murder after allegedly stabbing her 16-year-old friend at a convenience store.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 14, 2013
Ibaraki to change nuke tax amid shutdown
The Ibaraki Prefectural Government plans to change its nuclear fuel tax system to secure revenue even though reactors remain shut down in light of the Fukushima disaster, sources said Thursday.
JAPAN
Nov 10, 2013
M5.5 quake jolts Ibaraki Pref. area
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 jolted the southern part of Ibaraki Prefecture on Sunday morning, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History
Oct 30, 2013
Spent fuel good enough for bomb, U.S. told Japan in 1977
The United States believed in 1977 that nuclear weapons could be produced from plutonium extracted from spent nuclear fuel at Japan's light water reactors and conveyed its view to Tokyo, according to Japanese diplomatic records declassified Wednesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 30, 2013
Monju must remain idled, NRA to order
The Nuclear Regulation Authority will officially prohibit the Monju prototype fast-breeder reactor from resuming operations, dashing the operator's hopes of restarting the facility by the end of next March.
JAPAN
Jan 13, 2011
Ibaraki labor office marks a first: 2008 foreign trainee death was from overwork
A labor office in Ibaraki Prefecture has deemed that a Chinese trainee at a local firm died in 2008 due to overwork, marking the first recognized karōshi death of a foreign intern under a government-authorized training program.
JAPAN
Aug 9, 2009
Ibaraki case is first seeking damages for a foreign trainee's death from overwork in Japan
The relatives of a Chinese man who died of heart failure last year sought compensation Friday at a local labor standards inspection office, claiming his long working hours as a trainee at a plating company in Ibaraki Prefecture killed him.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 24, 2008
Man goes on stabbing rampage outside mall in Ibaraki Prefecture, killing one and injuring seven
A man wanted by police for murder went on a stabbing spree outside a shopping mall in Tsuchiura, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Sunday, killing one man and injuring seven other people, police said.

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