OSAKA Leather footwear stored in “genkan” lockers, as is Japanese custom, generate up to 25 times more mold than sneakers and rank as the most contaminated area of any household the bathroom drain a study shows.
NARA Researchers excavating an archaeological site where an impressive palace is believed to have stood in the late third century found the partial remains of a cockroach that conceivably gave Himiko, a legendary queen of early Japan, a fright.