Man’s corpse found in trunk of car overturned in Kobe field
By Tokyo Reporter Staff on May 6, 2021
HYOGO (TR) – Hyogo Prefectural Police launched an investigation after a male corpse was found in a vehicle in Kobe City on Wednesday, reports Nippon News Network (May 6).
At around 8:15 p.m., a resident in the Yamada area of Kita Ward alerted police. “There’s an overturned vehicle in a rice field with the alarm sounding,” the caller said.
Officers arriving at the scene about two and a half hours later found the body of a man in the trunk.
According to the Kobe-Kita Police Station, the man is the 66-year-old manager of a convenience store in Kobe.
OTSU New specialties have been born from the collaboration of two nuisances in Lake Biwako.
Leather goods were developed using the black bass, an alien species which exerts a negative impact on the lake’s ecosystem, and water plants growing in large numbers to hinder the navigations of fishing boats.
Though they are priced mainly between 20,000 yen ($183) and 50,000 yen, bass anglers and others are showing interest in them.
The new products include wallets carrying price tags of 35,200 yen to 52,800 yen as well as a 33,000-yen key case and a change purse with a price of 26,400 yen.
They all use the carefully tanned skin of the black bass from Biwako and dyed with an agent based on waterweed from the lake.
Suspect arrested for robbing man on Osaka street May 6 06:00 am JST May 6 | 06:42 am JST OSAKA
Police in Osaka have arrested a 33-year-old man on suspicion of robbing a 41-year-old man at knifepoint as he walked home last month.
According to police, the incident occurred in Kita Ward at around 12 a.m. on April 18, Sankei Shimbun reported. Police said the suspect, Taishi Yamada, a company employee, is accused of coming up behind the suspect and grabbing him from behind. Yamada brandished a knife at the man and said if he made a sound, he would be killed. He then took the man to a nearby parking lot and stole his wallet containing 28,000 yen and his cash card. He taped the victim’s mouth and bound his arms and legs before fleeing.
Senior Vice Defense Minister Yasuhide Nakayama, center, and Osaka Governor Hirofumi Yoshimura check out the Osaka International Convention Center in Osaka on May 3. (Yoshiaki Arai)
The cavernous Osaka International Convention Center will serve as a venue for mass vaccinations late this month as Osaka Prefecture struggles to contain a steep surge in COVID-19 cases, the government said May 3.
The building in Osaka’s Kita Ward is so vast it is dubbed Grand Cube Osaka.
Elderly residents from Osaka Prefecture will get priority during the three-month program being overseen by the Self-Defense Forces.
It is scheduled to open as a vaccination center as early as May 24.
When we are walking around town, our bodies are part of the town, but when we travel by train or car, we are separated from the town, according to sociologist Shunya Yoshimi. On the latter occasions, we can only enjoy the view from the window as if we are consuming video content, he argues.
Reading Yoshimi’s book “Tokyo Uragaeshi: Shakaigaku teki Machi Aruki Gaido” (Tokyo inside out: A sociological guide for walking around the capital) makes you feel as if you were walking with him while enjoying his erudite lecture about the city.
Take Asukayama, a small hill in Tokyo’s Kita Ward, for instance.