The spectacular Toyohashi Gion Matsuri festival, one of the most eye-catching summer events in Japan, features handheld “tube” fireworks that explode in a shower of fiery sparks.
A Japanese high court on Wednesday refused to grant a retrial to a man who served 17 years in prison for abducting and killing a 22-month-old boy near Nagoya in 2002. While lawyers of Masaki Tanabe, 56, called for the case to be reopened, claiming his confessions during police questioning…
A Japanese high court on June 7 refused to grant a retrial to a man who served 17 years in prison for abducting and killing a 22-month-old boy near Nagoya, central Japan, in 2002.
TOKYO (AP) – Rescue workers in Japan searched on Monday for three people who went missing in or near rivers swollen by heavy rains last week that left one person dead and dozens injured. A man in his 60s who was pulled from a flooded car Friday in the central city of Toyohashi was pronounced […]