Shizuoka prefectural police have arrested a 75-year-old man on suspicion of killing his wife who was in her 60s. According to police reports, Katsuyuki Furudate, a resident of Tokyo’s Adachi Ward, contacted police by phone at around 4:45 a.m. on Sunday and confessed to killing his common-law wife, Sankei Shimbun…
Across major league baseball, 42 has long been the only permanently retired number and was done so in honor of Jackie Robinson, who became the first African American to break the color barrier when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947.
GIFT: On this day, 112 years ago, First Lady Helen Taft and the Viscountess Chinda, wife of the Japanese ambassador, planted two Yoshino cherry trees on the northern bank of