Yamaguchi Gov. Tsugumasa Muraoka and Iwakuni Mayor Yoshihiko Fukuda on Tuesday told the central government that they will accept a U.S. plan to transfer carrier-based aircraft to Iwakuni from Kanagawa Prefecture. They conveyed their decision to Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga in a meeting at ...
Office worker who took just four days off in six months before her death died from overwork, authorities say.
Despite the onsen rapprochement, the meeting is seen as unlikely to produce a major breakthrough in the territorial row.
Police began investigating Thursday an industrial water tunnel in Yamaguchi Prefecture where nine workers were hospitalized the previous day on suspicion of carbon monoxide poisoning. The Yamaguchi Prefectural Government said none of the workers was in a life-threatening situation, but seven will likely be in ...
The prefectural government allows Chugoku Electric Power Co. to reclaim land for a new nuclear power plant, angering many.
Sweden's health authority is urging nearly 2,000 scouts returning from a gathering in Japan to get medical treatment after a suspected outbreak of meningitis.
The Hagi Uragami Museum in Yamaguchi Prefecture boasts a magnificent collection of ukiyo-e, Oriental pottery and porcelain works housed in a stylish building designed by well-known architect Kenzo Tange. Its origin, however, has distant echoes of Japan’s brutal wartime history. The museum was founded in 1996 ...
Below the bridge, flat-bottomed boats are ferrying people across the Nishiki River, just as they did centuries ago — back when commoners were not permitted to walk over its wooden arches, and even centuries before that, when there was no bridge at all. The ...
Police said Thursday they believe the same blunt object was used to bludgeon to death five people in their homes Sunday and Monday in the mountain hamlet of Shunan, Yamaguchi Prefecture. Victims Makoto Sadamori, 71, and his wife, Kiyoko, 72, were found Sunday night in ...
Mr. Hirohisa had made it clear when I called him from the nearest mainland city to the island — Nagato in western Honshu's Yamaguchi Prefecture — that there would be no supper provided that night; nor would he be able to pick me up ...
An Upper House by-election victory in Yamaguchi Prefecture is a boon to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ahead of nationwide Upper House elections this summer.
