The Noto Peninsula earthquake has hammered foreign technical interns in Ishikawa Prefecture, and concerns are rising about their futures in Japan and the survival of their understaffed employers in the region.
SAITAMA Saitama Prefecture became the first in Japan to pass an ordinance that defines leaving children alone at home, even for short periods, as abuse.
UENO, Gunma Prefecture Bereaved family members on Aug. 12 trudged up to the ridge of Mount Osutakayama here where remnants of the world’s deadliest single-aircraft disaster are still being found.
Fossils discovered in a stratum dating to the late Cretaceous Period, or about 72 million years ago, on the Awajishima island in Hyogo Prefecture were found to be a new species of dinosaur, now named Yamatosaurus izanagii. (The Asahi Shimbun)
A new dinosaur species was discovered on Awajishima island in Hyogo Prefecture, the place where the nation of Japan was born according to myth.
A team led by Yoshitsugu Kobayashi, a professor of Hokkaido University, announced the finding in the British science journal Scientific Reports on April 27.
Shingo Kishimoto, a 72-year-old amateur fossil collector from Himeji city, also in Hyogo Prefecture, found the fossils of the new species, including teeth and neck bones, in a stratum dating to the late Cretaceous Period, or about 72 million years ago, in the city of Sumoto on the island in 2004.
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