Yokohama Mayor Fumiko Hayashi cruised to a third four-year term on Sunday by defeating two former national and local politicians. The 71-year-old, who had the backing of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its junior coalition partner, Komeito, beat former House of Representatives member ...
A push is underway to create smaller, community-integrated group homes for people with disabilities in the wake of last year's mass murder at a large, outdated care facility. Around 130,000 people with disabilities are currently accommodated in some 2,600 large facilities built in relatively isolated ...
Residents near Naval Air Facility Atsugi in Kanagawa Prefecture plan to sue the Japanese government again over noise pollution caused by the base.
About a year has passed since the fatal stabbings of 19 residents with developmental disabilities at a facility in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, killed at the hands of a former care worker who spoke of euthanizing the disabled. Satoshi Uematsu, 27, was indicted in February on ...
"It is my job to ensure that patients do not need to see me" is written in large letters on the web page of Thomas Blasejewicz, an acupuncturist from Germany who practices in Hayama.
Japan’s shelters for neglected children are known for their suffocating discipline, but no one has come up with a good way to reform them in the past 70 years.
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.
Gov. Yuriko Koike pushes Tokyo’s Olympic preparations forward by agreeing to foot the cost of building temporary facilities outside the capital, but not everyone is happy.
Two men were charged on Monday for allegedly damaging the corpse of an acquaintance with an alkaline substance in 2015, the police said. The suspects allegedly used a chemical — likely sodium hydroxide — to dissolve the body of Kazumasa Iwamoto, 47, in May 2015, ...
The Kanagawa Prefectural Government said Monday it is consulting with police after an exhaustive search failed to turn up an original woodblock print made by the late Shiko Munakata—a photocopy of which was discovered hanging in its place three years ago. The missing print by ...
The restoration of former Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida's residence in the town of Oiso, Kanagawa Prefecture, has been completed, allowing it to be used as an annex to the new Oiso Municipal Museum scheduled to open on Saturday. A ceremony Sunday to celebrate its completion ...
The Kanagawa Prefectural Government was a trailblazer in the fight against passive smoking but hasn’t fined a single violator since its ordinance took effect in 2010, a source says.
