Virtual online spaces are providing social recluses, known as "hikikomori" in Japan, a way of staying connected to the world while also allowing them to edge closer to making a full return to society.
Tokushima Prefectural Police have arrested a 20-year-old man on suspicion of kidnapping two teenage sisters whom he met on a social networking site. Police said Ayumu Kiribuchi, a company employee from Tomioka in Gunma Prefecture, was arrested on Saturday over the abduction of the two siblings on Friday, local media…
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Official campaigning for nine gubernatorial elections kicked off on March 23, with much attention on the race in Osaka Prefecture, where incumbent Hirofumi Yoshimura faces five challengers.
Police in Awa, Tokushima Prefecture, have arrested a man in his 40s on suspicion of murder after he allegedly beat his father to death with a hammer and a rice cooker at their home. According to the warrant, the man beat his father, who was in his 80s, on the…