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by Hiroshi HIYAMA SAGAMIHARA, Japan (AFP) — A knife-wielding former employee killed 19 people and injured 25 at a care centre for the mentally disabled in Japan on Tuesday, in the country’s worst mass killing in decades. The 26-year-old man later turned himself in at a police station, admitting to officers: “I did it.” He reportedly also said: “The disabled should all disappear.” Authorities identified the attacker as Satoshi Uematsu and said he had worked […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — At least 19 people were killed in Japan when a knife-wielding man went on a rampage at a care centre for the mentally disabled early Tuesday, officials said. Another 25 were wounded, 20 of them seriously, in the attack in Sagamihara city, 50 kilometers (30 miles) west of Tokyo, a local fire department spokesman said. A 26-year-old man who said he was a former employee of the centre later turned himself in […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Some 15 people died and 45 were injured at a care center for the disabled in Japan Tuesday when a former employee went on a knife rampage before turning himself in to police, officials and media said. The attack began when the man, aged in his 20s, entered the facility in the early hours of the morning, police said. He later appeared at a nearby police station and admitted to officers: […]
TOKYO, Japan (Reuters) — A rugby ball made out of pure gold went on sale for the first time on Wednesday (July 13), at one of Japan’s oldest department store chains, Mitsukoshi, in downtown Tokyo. Customers flocked to the exhibition hall from Wednesday morning to get a glimpse of the shining ball, weighing approximately 2.8 kilograms. The exhibition organizer said the product was made to pay homage to Japan’s national rugby team’s victory over South […]
TOKYO, Japan (Reuters) — Japan urges China to follow The Hague tribunal’s ruling that denied China’s claims in the South China Sea in order to peacefully resolve disputes in the waterway, Japanese chief cabinet secretary Yoshihide Suga told a news conference on Wednesday (July 13). “Japan sees the ruling as final and legally binding all parties based on the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. We believe both China and the Philippines […]
by Shingo ITO TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe claimed victory Sunday for his ruling coalition in parliamentary elections, which came despite lukewarm public support for his economic policies and wariness over amending the country’s pacifist constitution. Abe, in power since late 2012, has yet to achieve a strong recovery in the world’s third-largest economy through unconventional measures centered on massive easy money and other steps — so-called Abenomics. Voters have also […]
(Reuters) — Japan has succeeded in producing the world’s first penguin conceived through artificial insemination after six years of research aimed at developing technology to preserve the endangered species. In the video that Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan shared with Reuters, a caretaker is seen weighing the young southern rockhopper penguin and saying she has gained weight. The chick is healthy, according to the aquarium, and put on the scales every day, growing at a rate that has […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Radiation levels across the Pacific Ocean are rapidly returning to normal five years after a meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear plant spewed gases and liquids into the sea, a study showed Monday. Japan shut down dozens of reactors after a magnitude 9.0 earthquake-generated tsunami on March 11, 2011 triggered one of the largest ever dumps of nuclear material into the world’s oceans. In the days following the quake and explosions at […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — South Korea, Japan and the United States held an unprecedented trilateral missile defense exercise on Tuesday, aimed at countering the growing threat from nuclear-armed North Korea which denounced it as a “military provocation.” The drill in waters off Hawaii came less than a week after North Korea flight-tested a powerful new medium-range ballistic missile that leader Kim Jong-Un hailed as a strike threat to US military bases across the Pacific. […]
Tokyo, Japan—Japan said Friday it would communicate with its G7 counterparts over Britain’s decision to quit the European Union, as a report said the group would hold a conference call later Friday. The club of rich nations — which earlier warned that Brexit could have disastrous economic consequences — has yet to issue a formal response to the shock vote that sent financial markets into a tailspin. Japan’s Finance Minister Taro Aso declined to […]
(REUTERS) Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe began an upper house election campaign on Wednesday with a pledge to rev-up the economy as surveys showed his ruling bloc ahead, despite doubts over Abe’s economic growth recipe. Abe’s coalition is in no danger of losing power in the election but he needs a solid win to keep his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) lawmakers in line and perhaps stay on another three years after his tenure as […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — At least three people have died and three are missing after landslides and floods hit an area of Japan that was recently battered by major earthquakes, officials said Tuesday. Rescue workers are searching for three people in southern Kumamoto prefecture, where nearly 2,000 residents were already forced to evacuate their homes after two huge earthquakes in April. The 6.2-magnitude and 7.0-magnitude tremors were followed by more than 1,700 aftershocks, which broke […]
