The former head of an elementary school parents’ association is indicted for allegedly murdering a Vietnamese girl who attended the school in Chiba Prefecture.
A 34-year-old man was arrested Sunday for allegedly injuring five men with a cooking knife and a baseball bat during apparently random assaults in Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture. The suspect was identified as Norio Shibata, who reportedly lives in the city. He was arrested on suspicion ...
No suspicious vehicles have been captured by security cameras installed around the areas where the body of a slain 9-year-old Vietnamese girl was found near a drainage ditch in Chiba Prefecture, NHK reported, quoting investigative sources. Police believe the girl, Le Thi Nhat Linh, was ...
The 9-year-old Vietnamese girl from Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture, whose nude corpse was found Sunday in a field, was a cheerful and friendly child who liked to chat, neighbors said. The body of Le Thi Nhat Linh was found near a drainage ditch at around 6:45 ...
Three cities in Chiba Prefecture contaminated with radioactive materials have agreed to dispose of the toxic waste on their own if the central government fails to find a final disposal site.
Three cities in Chiba Prefecture that were heavily contaminated with radioactive materials as a result of the March 2011 nuclear meltdowns at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima No. 1 plant will build facilities to store incinerated radioactive waste in their own municipalities if the ...
Last in a three-part series The growing issue of people with dementia getting lost and failing to return home — sometimes for years on end — is pushing more municipalities to support the elderly at the community level. According to the National Police Agency, 10,322 elderly ...
A man from Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture, has been arrested on suspicion of stalking a woman by bombarding her with emails, becoming the first person to be held under a revision to the anti-stalking law that took effect last month, police said. Keiji Shirakawa, 40, who ...
