5+ hour, 15+ min ago   (380+ words) Three students were confirmed dead Saturday after being swept out to sea off Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, the previous day, the Japan Coast Guard said. The coast guard identified the three as Haruki Shitaebisu, 17, his brother Kensei, 13, and Takahiro Takemoto,…...

10+ hour, 41+ min ago   (141+ words) Japan Today Police in Mobara Chiba Prefecture, have arrested a couple on suspicion of abusing their three-month-old daughter Police said Hiroto Hanawa, 25, a company employee, and his wife, Mai, 25, who is unemployed, are accused of injuring their daughter at their…...

12+ hour, 2+ min ago   (334+ words) Two people were confirmed dead Saturday during a search for students who were swept out to sea in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, the previous day, local authorities said. The coast guard identified the two as Haruki Shitaebisu, 17, and Takahiro Takemoto,…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (1786+ words) Nobody is saying that human trafficking doesn't exist. We're saying that it's irrelevant and not happening in this case involving 20-40yrs old men from a G7 country; Japan. Posting articles about it happening with other people in other countries is pointless I'll…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (937+ words) Common sense would suggest that if there’s something that’s been judged as unacceptable enough within a society for there to be a blanket ban on its sale, that buying it should be illegal too, right? And yet, the Japanese legal…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (450+ words) Nigerian kidnappers have collected nearly $5.8 million in ransom payments in the last year from civilian abductions, crime that ‌is crippling education and eroding public trust in the government, a security consultancy said on Wednesday. Nigeria's SBM Intelligence said 7,825 people were…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (250+ words) The United States said on Wednesday it had disrupted a Chinese hacking operation responsible for break-ins and ‌attempts on the U.S. Justice Department, NASA, the Federal Reserve, the Senate, and other sensitive government agencies. The Chinese ⁠embassy in Washington did…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (728+ words) Meta agreed to pay a coalition of U.S. states as much as $16.7 billion and to impose sweeping new limits on how teenagers use Facebook and Instagram, according to a court filing on Wednesday that ends a landmark trial in California. The…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (212+ words) A 50-year-old woman who works for a supermarket in Asago City, Hyogo Prefecture, was assaulted and robbed on Monday. According to police, the manager of the Mini-Fresh Ikuno supermarket called 119 at around 1:30 p.m and said that a female employee had…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (1093+ words) The monumental collection of 76 statues in Suse Lowenstein’s backyard captures the moment she and other women learned their loved ones were killed when Pan Am Flight 103 was blown out of the sky over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988. Each life-size creation represents…...