A Peruvian man indicted in the 2015 killings of six people in Saitama Prefecture has a mental illness, sources said Tuesday, a development that could affect whether he can be held criminally liable. Vayron Jonathan Nakada Ludena, 32, turned out to have a mental illness ...
A 15-year-old male high school boy who was arrested Monday for allegedly stabbing fellow student Kosuke Nishiyama, 16, to death in Saitama has admitted he committed the act because the victim was trying to steal his girlfriend, police said. "I tried to kill him because ...
A 15-year-old high school student was arrested Monday on suspicion of fatally stabbing another teenage boy in Soka, Saitama Prefecture, who was thought to have been dating his former girlfriend. Police allege the suspect, whose name is being withheld because he is a minor, killed ...
Yokohama restaurant halts operations after two diners are infected with the O-157 strain of the E. coli bacteria.
Manaya Nishikawa went 3-for-6 with four RBIs to lead a 16-hit attack as Hanasaki Tokuharu beat Hiroshima's Koryo 14-4 at the National High School Baseball Championship final on Wednesday. Hanasaki Tokuharu, managed by Takashi Iwai, became the first school from Saitama Prefecture to win the ...
The inspection was ordered after 10 people in Gunma and Saitama prefectures were found to have been infected with the O-157 strain of the E. coli bacteria.
The victims all ate potato salad sold at the Shokusaikan Marche Kagohara supermarket in the city of Kumagaya, Saitama Prefecture, the prefecture said.
Calling act ‘malicious and well-planned,’ prosecutors at the Saitama District Court say Kabu Terauchi acted out of a desire to observe how his victim behaved in captivity
Board of education in city of Tokorozawa considers disciplinary action after homeroom teacher admits to comments, apologizes
It wasn't immediately clear what the man tossing large pebbles at the torii of a shrine was trying to achieve. What appeared to be the desecration of a religious structure, with the vocal encouragement of his wife, turned out to be related to superstition, the ...
A young man dies in a hot van after a company that cares for mentally disabled people fails to notice his absence after six hours.
As a child, Noriko Ishizaka was ashamed of her father's company — a waste disposal firm with towering smoke stacks overlooking a small town in Saitama Prefecture. "People would call him 'the garbage collector' ... and I wasn't proud of that," she recalled. But Ishizaka Sangyo ...
