TOKYO, Dec 18 (News On Japan) –
A 14-year-old boy who was annoyed along with his grades at college has been charged in reference to fires final month that burned clothes on three flooring of a shopping center in Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture.
The boy, a resident of Miyamae Ward in Kawasaki City, was charged on the twenty second of final month for beginning a hearth within the “Marui Family Mizonokuchi” retailer, inflicting disruption to enterprise operations.
According to police, two days earlier than the incident, the boy shoplifted a lighter from a comfort retailer in Tokyo and used it to start out the hearth.
The boy turned himself into the police alone on Nov 27, saying, “I was irritated because my grades were not improving. I thought that setting a fire would imnprove my mood.”
News On Japan – Dec 18
A 14-year-old boy who was annoyed along with his grades at college has been charged in reference to fires final month that burned clothes on three flooring of a shopping center in Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture.
News On Japan – Dec 18
A 17-year-old boy has been arrested for stabbing a main faculty principal and stealing his money in an Osaka park final Friday evening.
News On Japan – Dec 18
Ahead of the winter break, when the variety of ‘Toyoko children’ is anticipated to develop round Tokyo’s Kabukicho leisure district, police have been conducting a mass operation to forestall these road urchins being coerced into crimes akin to prostitution.
NHK – Dec 18
Leaders of Japan and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations have agreed to advertise mutual safety cooperation, apparently with China’s growing maritime actions in thoughts.
News On Japan – Dec 17
A person in his 20s waving a knife demanding cash in a Hiroshima shopping center was subdued by safety guards on Friday evening.
News On Japan – Dec 16
An unknown man armed with a knife assaulted an elementary faculty principal on Friday evening, making off along with his bag containing about 20,000 yen.
News On Japan – Dec 16
A landslide in Hakuba, a well-liked ski village within the central alps of Japan, led to evacuation orders for 23 households following 24 hours of heavy rain.
News On Japan – Dec 16
The ‘Yassai Hossai’ hearth pageant, relationship again to prehistoric instances, reached its zenith on Thursday with a shocking fire-walking ritual, thrilling hordes of onlookers.
Al Jazeera – Dec 16
Japan has expanded its sanctions concentrating on Russia over its struggle in Ukraine, banning Russian diamonds for non-industrial use and including dozens of corporations and organisations to its commerce blacklist.
News On Japan – Dec 15
People who had been separated from their Japanese fathers in the course of the Pacific War and subsequently lived with out citizenship within the Philippines have arrived in Japan to collect details about their households, as they search to revive their Japanese nationality.
News On Japan – Dec 15
A 22-year-old autistic man has been despatched to jail for 23 years for stabbing and killing a feminine worker of an grownup leisure store in Tokyo two years in the past, when he was solely 19.
News On Japan – Dec 15
As the New Year’s vacation approaches, many individuals discover themselves glued to their cell phones, resulting in a phenomenon often known as the ‘smartphone face.’
News On Japan – Dec 14
An aged man who was hit by a automotive whereas crossing a street within the early hours of Sunday morning, and whose physique was subsequently deserted within the mountains some 40 kilometers away, froze to dying, in keeping with an post-mortem.
News On Japan – Dec 14
Steel flying curler coaster “The Flying Dinosaur” at Universal Studios Japan (USJ) in Osaka, got here to an emergency cease on Tuesday morning at about 10:45, leaving passengers stranded for as much as 45 minutes. There have been no studies of accidents or well being considerations.
News On Japan – Dec 14
A buyer has suffered throat accidents requiring surgical procedure from a donut containing a steel fragment bought at a restaurant in “Ibaraki Flower Park”.
News On Japan – Dec 14
A person in his 30s from Saitama Prefecture, with no abroad journey historical past, has turn into the primary in Japan to fatally succumb to “mpox,” beforehand often known as monkeypox.