Teen arrested for attacking girl in Yamanashi hints at involvement in arson
A 19-year-old boy was arrested Wednesday for allegedly assaulting a girl the previous day in a house in Kofu, west of Tokyo, shortly before the house burned down in a suspected arson incident that killed two people presumed to be the girl's parents.
Japanese woman hopes Trump-Kim summit will bring news of missing twin
It has been more than 30 years since the identical twin sister of Japanese teacher Misa Morimoto vanished, believed to have been abducted by North Korea. Hopes for her return have often surged and ebbed since, tracing the ups and downs of ties between Tokyo ...
Japan-born Thai teenager fights to remain at 'home' despite deportation order
In December, the Tokyo High Court upheld the Tokyo Immigration Bureau's decision to deport 17-year-old Utinan Won from Japan, the country he was born and raised in his entire life. Despite the court's ruling, Won, who was born the son of a visa overstayer from ...
Kofu: the mountain fortress of warlord Takeda Shingen
In Akira Kurosawa's classic 1980 film "Kagemusha" ("Shadow Warrior"), the 16th-century daimyo Takeda Shingen is mortally wounded by a sniper after being lured by the sound of a flute during a castle siege. Takeda's clan know that rival warlords Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu ...
Japanese man slain in Manila last week was insurance beneficiary of another murder victim
Police say there is a connection between a Japanese man killed in Manila last year and one killed last week, sources said. Tatsuya Nakamura, 42, whose body was found Sept. 1, was designated as the beneficiary of ¥200 million in insurance money from the other ...
