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OSAKA – The Osaka Prefectural Police have set up a 140-strong emergency team to combat the proliferation of fraud cases. Detected frauds stood at 1,347 at the end of October, and fraud damage in Osaka this year is estimated at ¥4.48 billion. Both have ... ( read original story ...)

Yokohama, the port city in Japan, has a history of over 150 years. The fashionable and modern night view of the city makes it even more attractive. The Sky Garden is 273 meters from the ground and enables a 360 viewing window that is always full of ... ( read original story ...)

HOKKAIDO (TR) – Hokkaido Prefectural Police are questioning a man in a stabbing incident in Sapporo on Wednesday night that left another man seriously injured, reports Nippon News Network (Nov. 17). At around 8:25 p.m. on Wednesday, a knife-wielding ... ( read original story ...)

"There has been a lot of confusion," a Japanese official told Reuters news agency. The BBC's Paul Adams in Washington says Mr Trump has toned down some of his more strident rhetoric since the election, but that hasn't stopped observers wondering whether ... ( read original story ...)

YOKOHAMA – Yokohama’s mayor said Wednesday she has instructed ... part of the report to the Fukushima Prefectural Board of Education at its request. Kyodo News recently obtained a full text of the boy’s notes on the bullying, which were written ... ( read original story ...)

which was released by his lawyer at a news conference on Tuesday. The boy wrote the statement in July last year when he was refusing to attend the school due to the bullying. He is now a first-grade junior high school student in Yokohama. According to the ... ( read original story ...)

... Saiki City who has been missing for around three years in a mountainous area of Osaka Prefecture after working off information provided by his father, reports TBS News (Nov. 16). At around 2:15 p.m. on Tuesday, officers found the body likely of ... ( read original story ...)

A section of road in the centre of a Japanese city was fixed in days, and has reopened to traffic just one week after it collapsed into a gaping sinkhole. In the early hours of Tuesday, Nov. 8, a massive sinkhole opened up in Fukuoka, Japan, swallowing ... ( read original story ...)

The University of Tokyo will shell out 30,000 yen ($277; £223) per month toward each student's housing costs from next April, with the support lasting for up to two years, The Asahi Shimbun reports. At the moment only 20% of the institution's applicants ... ( read original story ...)

News of the winning bid comes as experts warn that the total 2020 Summer Games budget could hit an eye-popping $30 billion - four times the initial estimate and almost triple that of the 2012 London Olympics. Tokyo metropolitan government officials ... ( read original story ...)

The Church will continue to grow in Sapporo, he said. “Members here are pioneers. ” sarah@deseretnews.com @SJW_ChurchNews The LDS Church News is an official publication of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The publication's content ... ( read original story ...)

He leaves on Tuesday. Some of the events on his itinerary include the Canada Food Expo in Tokyo and Taste Alberta and Canada Beef Food Festival in Shanghai. Bilous is also meeting with government and industry representatives. The cost of sending Bilous on ... ( read original story ...)

Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd. reported net income of 8.5 billion yen on net sales of 410.2 billion yen for the first three quarters of the year ended Sept. 30, 2016. That compares to income of 18.3 billion yen on sales of 443.7 billion yen in the year-ago ... ( read original story ...)

Nagoya has been featured heavily in magazines and TV programs recently as the city that people hate the most. Magazines and broadcasters are branding the people of Nagoya as closed-minded and stingy, and ridiculing its unique cuisine, including toast with ... ( read original story ...)

... for groping an elderly woman and a university student at a department store in the Umeda area of Osaka City while intoxicated, Nippon News Network reported on Sunday (Nov. 13). Iori Fukumoto, 23, of the Toyonaka Police Station, allegedly groped the ... ( read original story ...)

Of course, this will still be seen in "Tokyo Ghoul" Season 3. With his new self as half ghoul half human, he will fight the desire to eat human flesh in order to stay alive. There are have been news that "Tokyo Ghoul" Season 3 is arriving before this year ... ( read original story ...