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The Mainichi
March 19, 2018
This Oct. 26, 2016 file photo shows a Twitter sign outside of the company's headquarters in San Francisco. A new study published on March 8, 2018, in the journal Science shows that false information on the social media network travels six times faster than the truth and reaches far more people.
The Japan News
March 18, 2018
AFP-JijiSAITAMA (AFP-Jiji) — Japan may be an island nation surrounded by the bounty of the sea, but businessman Tetsuro Sogo is looking inland to raise one of the country's most loved sushi fish: salmon. In a mountainous area near Tokyo, the water in a tank is a murk of writhing grey salmon, slitheringÃâà...
The Tokyo Reporter (blog)
March 16, 2018
At around 9:45 a.m. on December 5 of last year, Yasushiro Anse, a resident of Kawaguchi City, Saitama, allegedly stole a wallet containing a house key and other items from a woman, aged in her 20s, inside a carriage of the Keio Inokashira Line as it traveled between Meidaimae and Shibuya stations.
The Japan Times
March 11, 2018
SAITAMA – The Saitama District Court on Monday sentenced a man to nine years in prison for abducting a teenage girl and holding her captive for two years from March 2014. The court determined that Kabu Terauchi, 25, was fully competent to be held criminally liable, rejecting claims by defense lawyersÃâà...
The Tokyo Reporter (blog)
March 9, 2018
SAITAMA (TR) – Saitama Prefectural Police have launched an investigation after a 32-year-old man was found dead at his residence in Kazo City on Friday, reports TBS News (Mar. 9). At just before 7:00 a.m., a woman alerted emergency services about “a man collapsed” on a property. Personnel arrivingÃâà...
The Japan Times
March 9, 2018
SAITAMA – A Peruvian man was sentenced to death Friday for murdering six people including two girls in their homes in Saitama Prefecture in 2015. The Saitama District Court handed Vayron Jonathan Nakada Ludena, 32, capital punishment after concluding he was mentally fit enough to be held liable forÃâà...
The Japan Times
March 2, 2018
SAITAMA – Japan may be an island nation surrounded by the bounty of the sea, but businessman Tetsuro Sogo is looking inland to raise one of the country's most loved sushi fish: salmon. In a mountainous area near Tokyo, gray salmon in a tank writhe as they slither past each other, angling for food.
The Japan Times
February 25, 2018
A new Self-Defense Forces hospital will be built in fiscal 2021 next to Iruma Air Base in Saitama Prefecture, bringing the total to 17, informed sources said. Afterward, the government will reduce the roles played by the SDF hospitals in Misawa, Aomori Prefecture, and Kakamigahara, Gifu Prefecture, so thatÃâà...
Asahi Shimbun
December 31, 1999
Plagued by destructive raccoons, the Saitama prefectural government has produced an innovative trap system which spares other creatures that venture too close. Raccoons are native to North America and designated by the environment ministry as an “invasive alien species.” They were were blamed forÃâà...
EdgeProp Singapore
December 31, 1999
SINGAPORE (Mar 15): The Straits Trading Company has taken a stake in a residential property in Higashi Kawaguchi, Saitama, Japan, via the Savills IM Japan Residential Fund. The property was completed in March and comprises 134 apartment units with a total net lettable area of 6,957 sqm. The valueÃâà...
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