| Man stabs ex-wife, then crashes car during getaway A man stabbed his ex-wife on a street in Isehara, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Tuesday morning, and then caused a car crash while he was fleeing from the scene. |
| Yokohama clears out nursery waiting lists Officials at Yokohama City Hall said Monday the city has reduced the number of children on nursery school waiting lists to zero from 179 as of April 1, meeting its 2010 target of doing so in three years. |
| Tokyo broker for Thai hostesses busted for wrongful employment Tokyo Metropolitan Police on Monday announced the arrest of a broker of Thai females for violating immigration laws by employing the women as masseuses. |
| Claim filed against Yamaguchi-gumi top bosses for arson death in Nagoya The parents of a nightclub worker killed in an arson fire three years ago filed a suit in the Nagoya District Court on Monday seeking damages against top members of the Yamaguchi-gumi organized crime group. |
| Yahoo Japan suspects 22 million user IDs leaked Yahoo Japan Corp said on Friday night it suspected that up to 22 million of its user IDs may have been "leaked" and it detected an unauthorized attempt to access the administrative system of its web portal Yahoo Japan, the Kyodo news agency reported. |
| Kumamoto firm chairman busted for hiding 86 guns Police have arrested the chairman of a food company in Kumamoto, southwestern Japan, for allegedly hiding 86 modified lethal handguns in his home. |
| 9 women register as donors with Japan's 1st egg bank Nine women have registered with Japan's first "ovum bank" to donate their eggs to help infertile women, paving the way for fertility treatment to begin within the year at the earliest, a private group involved in the matter said Monday.
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| 16 Asia-Pacific nations agree on framework for RCEP trade talks Sixteen Asia-Pacific nations arranged the framework Monday for future rounds of negotiations for creating one of the world's largest free trade blocs as they concluded the first round of talks in Brunei. |
| US sailor arrested for trespassing near Yokosuka Japanese police have arrested a US sailor on suspicion of trespassing into an elementary school in Zushi City, Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Yokohama. |
| Microbes recover rare metals from waste A new technology has been developed that uses microbe-filled capsules to cheaply and quickly recover rare earth metals contained in industrial wastewater. |
| Fire in Shibuya Station arcade disrupts operations A fire in the shopping arcade at Shibuya Station in Tokyo disrupted operations for 90 minutes on Sunday morning. |
| U.S. sends Japan currency warning as G7 meets The United States told Japan it would be watching for any sign it was manipulating its currency downward, but Tokyo said it met no resistance to its policies at a meeting of Group of Seven finance ministers which will conclude on Saturday. |
| 22-year-old mother arrested after infant's body found in her room Police on Friday arrested a 22-year-old woman after the remains of her newborn son were discovered in her bedroom in Sapporo. |
| Panasonic reels from Y754 billion fiscal '12 loss Panasonic said Friday it logged an eye-watering ¥754.2 billion net loss in the fiscal year to March 31 but pledged to turn a profit in the next 12 months. |
| Foreign dignitaries honored with spring decorations Former French Prime Minister Francois Fillon, former Namibian Premier Theo-Ben Gurirab and Edgardo Angara, a former Philippine Senate president, received state decorations Thursday along with 20 Japanese from the Emperor at the Imperial Palace. |
| Yamanashi high school soccer club members assault younger students in shower Seven third-grade high school students have been accused of assaulting younger students at a Yamanashi high school, media reported Thursday. |
| China: Public opinion behind article on Okinawa The Chinese government says domestic public opinion is behind a newspaper commentary questioning Japan's sovereignty over its southernmost prefecture Okinawa. |
| Dollar climbs to 100-yen level The US dollar climbed to the 100-yen level in New York on Thursday. This is the first time in 4 years and one month that the dollar has reached the height. |
| Gov't presents outline of bills to set up U.S.-style security council The government presented an outline of bills to a panel of experts Thursday on establishing an institution similar to the U.S. National Security Council, aiming to strengthen the leadership role of the prime minister's office in security and foreign policy. |
| Lower house OKs citizen numbering to improve welfare services The House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday to introduce a numbering system that would give people an individual number and improve the government's social security management, despite concerns over how it could prevent any abuse of personal data. |
| Upper house fires panel chair Kawaguchi over China trip Japan's upper house passed a resolution Thursday dismissing Yoriko Kawaguchi, a senior lawmaker of the Liberal Democratic Party, as head of one of its standing committees over her recent trip to China, fueling tensions between the ruling and opposition camps ahead of this summer's national election. |
| 'Exascale' computer to be developed The science ministry will likely decide to launch development next fiscal year of an exascale supercomputer that would be 100 times faster than RIKEN's K, currently the nation's fastest computer, sources said. |
| Political feud intensifies over Kawaguchi's China visit The ruling and opposition camps in Japan intensified their conflict Wednesday over the extension of stay in China by former Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi, with the governing coalition boycotting a Diet session in a rare move that heightened tensions. |
| Psychiatric patient dies after being assaulted by male nurse A patient at a psychiatric hospital has died after being assaulted by a male nursing assistant, police said Wednesday. |
| Serial mugger targets women in Kanagawa Police on Tuesday said they are looking for a man whom they believe was responsible for four muggings which took place on the streets of Yokosuka and Yokohama on Monday morning. |

























