A 22-year-old airman based at Misawa Air Base in Aomori was arrested for molesting a 19-year-old female in Hachinohe. Apparently, he came up to her from behind, seized her and groped her breasts and buttocks. Sure, lots of people will say, “Hey, salarymen and old farts do this all the time; What’s the big deal?” Well, […]

The town of Izumozaki, in Niigata Prefecture, is selling copies of Jero’s Enka CD containing the hit song, “Umiyuki” with a 500-yen discount. The town government approved allocating budget money so that purchases of the CD by town residents would be subsidized. The town of Izumozaki is mentioned in the lyrics of the song, “Umiyuki.”
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A high school boy was injured in class by a flying umbrella that lodged itself in the boy’s eye, leaving him in a coma. The accident took place in a classroom at Toin Gakuen High School in Aoba-ku in Yokohama. Another boy was wildly swinging the umbrella when the handle broke loose and the free part went flying […]

Think the situation regarding the U.S. military presence in Japan couldn’t get any worse? Well, it has. A 22-year-old U.S. serviceman who initally denied involvent, has now apparently admitted to Japanese investigators that he stabbed a taxi driver to death in Yokosuka, Kanagawa. The young serviceman is in the custody of the U.S. Navy and […]

This week, the latest stabbing rampage to occur in Japan happened on Sunday the 23rd in the city of Tsuchuria, Ibaraki Prefecture. A knife-wielding man, now known to be Masahiro Kanagawa stabbed 8 people in a train station, killing one. He was already wanted by police at the time for the earlier murder of a […]