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Chinese trainee taken into custody after compatriot stabbed to death in Toyama company dorm
A Chinese man enrolled in the technical intern training program was found dead at a company dormitory in Toyama Prefecture on Thursday, and police are questioning another Chinese man over his apparent murder. Construction worker Zhong Xuecheng, 37, was found dead and bleeding from multiple ...
Man armed with knife and hammer attacks policeman in Toyama, site of deadly incident last year
A 22-year-old university student armed with a knife and a hammer attacked a policeman at a police substation Thursday in Toyama, the same city where an attack last year on a police box left an officer and another person dead. Masaki Maeda, a resident of ...
Toyama's Yuto Otsuka earns All-Star Game MVP honors as B. White outguns B. Black
In a high-scoring first half, Yuto Otsuka had a quiet performance, scoring just two points. The B. White starter heated up in the second half and his team did, too. B. White lit up the scoreboard for 80 second-half points — 40 apiece in the third ...
Doors to foreign workers no longer slammed shut
There's no such place as Imizustan. Warabistan is equally fictitious. "Stan" means "homeland" in ancient Persian — hence Pakistan, Afghanistan and so on. A substantial Pakistani community in Imizu, Toyama Prefecture, spawned the nickname Imizustan. Warabi, Saitama Prefecture, hosts a growing community of Kurds. ...
Four people are unaccounted for following a fire early Friday that destroyed a house in Toyama Prefecture, local police and firefighters said. The fire broke out at about 3:20 a.m. at the two-story wooden house of Hiroshi Miyazaki, 86, in the city of Tonami. Of the ...
Hidden and scenic, Kurobe route to accept more annual visitors from 2024
Kansai Electric Power Co. and the Toyama Prefectural Government have agreed to open a route between Keyakidaira Station, the terminal station of the Kurobe Gorge Railway, and the famed Kurobe Dam to more of the public by at least fiscal 2024. The 18-kilometer Kurobe route, ...
LDP Toyama chapter led by minister gets donation from bid-rigging firm, will return funds
A ruling Liberal Democratic Party chapter headed by Mitsuhiro Miyakoshi, state minister in charge of Okinawa and Northern Territories affairs, received political donations from a company involved in bid-rigging, data from the political funds reports of the chapter showed Thursday. The electoral district branch in ...
A 22-year-old former Self-Defense Forces member was served a fresh arrest warrant Wednesday over the murder and robbery of an officer at a police box in the city of Toyama in June. Keita Shimazu is alleged to have fatally stabbed Kenichi Inaizumi, the 46-year-old head ...
China Airlines plane, short on fuel, makes emergency landing at Chubu airport
A China Airlines passenger plane made an emergency landing Sunday at Chubu airport in central Japan due to a shortage of fuel. According to the Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry, the Boeing 737 from Taipei tried to land at Toyama airport three times but ...
Classes resumed at an elementary school in the city of Toyama on Tuesday amid tight security, a week after a man killed a security guard who worked at the school and a police officer, with a knife and a gun, as well as firing ...
Toyama elementary school extends closure after attack threat
An elementary school in the city of Toyama near the site of a shooting and stabbing incident last week said Monday it will remain closed after a threat was made to attack it. An email warning that an attack would take place Wednesday against Okuda ...
Staffing practices at police boxes nationwide need a thorough evaluation.
