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TOCHIGI

Hikaru Sasaki enters the Metropolitan Police Department's Osaki police station in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward on Monday after being arrested over suspected involvement in the torching of the two bodies found in Nasu, Tochigi Prefecture, earlier this month.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Apr 30, 2024
Another possible suspect emerges in case of torched Tochigi bodies
Police are investigating whether another figure gave orders to the man to dispose of the bodies.
Hikaru Sasaki enters the Metropolitan Police Department's Osaki police station in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward on Monday after being arrested on suspicion of disposing of two bodies found in Nasu, Tochigi Prefecture, earlier this month.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Apr 29, 2024
Man, 28, arrested in Okinawa over burned bodies found in Tochigi
The man is an acquaintance of the construction worker who earlier turned himself to the police over his possible involvement in the case.
A bouquet of flowers and incense is seen Friday at the site where the bodies of Ryutaro Takarajima, and his wife, Sachiko, were dumped in Nasu, Tochigi Prefecture.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Apr 28, 2024
Suspect claims he received over ¥10 million for dumping bodies in Tochigi
Investigators remain cautious, however, since a large sum of money has not been found in the suspect's home or bank account.
The parking lot of a convenience store in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward where Ryoken Hirayama, a 25-year-old construction worker, told police he had lent his car to two acquaintances to handle the matter involving the couple on the instructions of a certain individual.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Apr 25, 2024
New details emerge over two burned bodies found in Tochigi
Police say that Sachiko and Ryutaro Takarajima may have been assaulted at a house in Tokyo hours before their deaths.
Ryoken Hirayama, a construction worker arrested in connection with the discovery of the two charred bodies in Tochigi Prefecture, leaves a Tokyo police station on Monday. He has been handed over to prosecutors.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Apr 22, 2024
Man held over charred bodies found in Tochigi says he didn't know victims
Police are investigating further following a disclosure by the man that he had acted on a request from an unnamed person.
Tochigi police have arrested a 25-year-old man over the disposal of corpses in the town of Nasu last week.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Apr 21, 2024
Man, 25, arrested in connection with charred bodies found in Tochigi
Police had been questioning the unidentified man voluntarily since Wednesday, when he turned himself in.
Police discovered two bodies Tuesday as they rushed to a riverbed in the town of Nasu, Tochigi Prefecture.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Apr 17, 2024
Two charred bodies found near Tochigi riverbed
Police are questioning a man in his 20s on a voluntary basis in relation to the incident.
A map from the Japan Meteorological Agency displays the shindo intensity of the quake that struck the Kanto region at 9:08 a.m. on Thursday.
JAPAN
Mar 21, 2024
Magnitude 5.3 quake jolts Saitama and Tochigi
The quake, which triggered quake alarms in Tokyo and neighboring areas, measured a low 5 on the Japanese shindo scale of intensity.
Hideo Shimoju points to a possible site that his fellow neighbors may relocate to. Such relocations have happened before, but not preemptively.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change / Longform
Feb 24, 2024
In disaster-prone Japan, some communities consider major moves
Rural communities are considering collective relocation as a means to deal with worsening climate disasters.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 23, 2023
Man suspected of involvement in teenage girl’s death in Tochigi
Police are looking into how the two became acquainted, with local media reports saying they may have met on social media.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 19, 2023
The secret behind Japan’s wintry strawberries
Strawberries are a major Christmas and winter staple in Japan, but their growth comes with an environmental toll.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Oct 19, 2022
LDP heavyweight Toshimitsu Motegi seen as solidifying foothold in his party faction
With approval ratings for the Cabinet plunging, some LDP members speculate that Motegi — regarded by some as a possible successor to Kishida — is trying to increase his presence.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 5, 2022
Canon plans ¥50 billion plant in Tochigi to produce more chipmaking equipment
Construction will begin in Utsunomiya in 2023 and the plant will begin operations in 2025, a spokesman said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Oct 1, 2022
Emperor and empress make first trip outside Tokyo since COVID-19 outbreak
Other than their visit to London for the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, this marked the imperial couple's first trip outside Tokyo since the COVID-19 outbreak.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 13, 2022
Emperor to visit Tochigi for National Sports Festival ceremony
It is the first trip to outside of Tokyo by the Imperial couple since the outbreak of COVID-19, having last gone on such a trip two years and eight months ago.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 19, 2022
A ‘killing stone’ broke in Japan. Is a demon on the loose?
The rock appears in a famous legend starring a nine-tailed fox spirit. The question now is whether the fracture was a good or bad omen.
Naked man’s rampage in Saitama linked to one fatality and 10 injured
Police believe Daisuke Nishimura may have been involved in roughly 20 incidents in the 90 minutes leading up to his arrest, including a fatal hit-and-run and multiple assaults.
Japan set to fine cyclists on the spot for rule violations from 2026
Under new rules, those who use smartphones while riding a bicycle would be subject to the maximum fine of ¥12,000.
Japan brings forward deadline for electronic travel authorization system
Japan is planning to implement by March 2029 a new online screening system in which foreign visitors who don’t need a visa apply for a certification before entering the country.
Built in a flash, Osaka Expo pavilions wrestle with sustainability
Kengo Kuma & Associates oversaw the construction of the Malaysia pavilion, which is encased in interwoven rows of bamboo that appear to ripple.
Social media helps fuel growing 'sex tourism' in Japan
People walk down a street in the red-light entertainment area of Kabukicho in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo on March 31.
Amid uncertain tariffs, is now the time to buy a new iPhone?
An Apple store in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward in September. Prices for the newest iPhone models start at around ¥100,000 ($700) in Japan.
Built in a flash, Osaka Expo pavilions wrestle with sustainability
Kengo Kuma & Associates oversaw the construction of the Malaysia pavilion, which is encased in interwoven rows of bamboo that appear to ripple.
Japan weighs using U.S. rice imports as tariff negotiation tool with Trump
A restaurant owner pours California-grown Calrose rice into a rice cooker at his restaurant in Tokyo
Is Japan’s parliament ready to welcome more youth to its ranks?
Lower House lawmaker Kai Odake in his Tokyo office on Wednesday
Crow meat, goat tartare: Mauvaise Herbe raises its game
Crow meat, shaped into a ball and attached to a foot of the bird, is one of the peculiar offerings of game at Mauvaise Herbe.

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