Two men were arrested Tuesday a day after the body of a woman in her 50s, who had been missing since mid-June, was found buried in a Shiga Prefecture forest, the police said. Ichiya Nishida, a 20-year-old construction worker, and an 18-year-old part-time worker were ...
A public-private program has been underway in a Shiga Prefecture city to teach Spanish or Portuguese to children of migrants from Latin America working at local manufacturing plants. The program in Konan, launched in 2013, started after local officials found many children of Latin American ...
A projection showing that Japan's population could fall from 127.09 million in 2015 to 88.08 million by 2065 has pushed Kansai leaders harder for more policies and funding to increase the local birthrate, keep younger people from leaving and protect the growing ranks of ...
A 28-year-old man taking part in an onigiri (rice ball) eating contest in Hikone, Shiga Prefecture, earlier this month choked to death on one of them, according to the event's organizer. The man, whose name has not been released, from the town of Kora was ...
Thanks to new shinkansen lines built over the past years, once off-the-beaten-path cities such as Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, and Otaru, Hokkaido, are having tourism booms, proving high-speed trains can bring more cash to local businesses. Well aware of this, leaders in Kyoto and Nara prefectures ...
Two teenagers died and 25 people were taken to hospital Saturday after a bus and a passenger car collided in the city of Nanao, Ishikawa Prefecture, local police said. The bus carrying students belonging to a baseball club at a junior high school in the ...
Some 11,000 residents in Fukui and Kyoto prefectures participate in two major disaster drills centered on hypothetical nuclear accidents.
The Otsu District Court on Friday rejected a bid by Kansai Electric Power Co. to lift an injunction against restarting reactors at a nearby plant, dealing yet another setback to attempts by the utility and the central government to return swiftly to nuclear power. The ...
The city of Otsu in Shiga Prefecture has taken disciplinary action against a 53-year-old male manager for harassing a male subordinate in his 40s who subsequently overdosed on tranquilizer pills and died three days later. The city cut the pay of the official, who works ...
The city of Otsu in Shiga Prefecture took disciplinary action Wednesday against a 53-year-old male manager for harassing a male subordinate in his 40s who subsequently overdosed on tranquilizer pills and died three days later in March 2015. The city cut the pay of the official, who works ...
The Shiga Prefectural Government signs an agreement with Kansai Electric Power Co. on safety issues concerning the Takahama nuclear plant in adjacent Fukui Prefecture, which is scheduled to restart Friday.
Last week's approval by Fukui Gov. Issei Nishikawa to restart two Takahama nuclear reactors, followed by the Fukui District Court's lifting of a provisional injunction, means Japan will soon fire up its third and fourth reactors since 2012. "I made my decision after the safety ...
