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As temperatures soar, Japanese turn to ghost houses
With Japan suffering its worst heatwave since records began in 1898, haunted houses or “obake yashiki” are doing a roaring trade as the traditional summertime venues to cool off. Ghost houses are set up especially for the summer in amusements parks in Japan with the tradition linked to Japanese Buddhism which views August as the time [...]
Continue reading...NHK to resume live broadcasts of sumo
2. September 2010
Japan’s public TV broadcaster is to resume live sumo broadcasts, after canceling coverage of July’s Nagoya tournament over a betting scandal that hit the country’s ancient sport. NHK officials said Thursday the station will televise the Sept. 12-26 Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament as usual. NHK did not air live broadcasts of the Nagoya tournament, saying that the [...]
Continue reading...Police to send papers on ‘thieving cop’
2. September 2010
Police said they will send papers to prosecutors over a senior police officer who allegedly stole a bicycle because he was worried about being late for work. The Kanagawa prefectural police will punish the police officer, whose duties include preventing bicycle thefts. The policeman, 25, of Takatsu Police Station, allegedly stole a bicycle parked outside a video [...]
Continue reading...Japan finds fresh suspected foot-and-mouth case
2. September 2010
Japan discovered a suspected case of foot-and-mouth disease in a cow in its southern prefecture of Miyazaki, just days after it lifted a state of emergency, an official said. “We cancelled two auctions of cows in the prefecture after a suspected case of foot and mouth was discovered on a farm,” a prefecture official told AFP. The [...]
Continue reading...No. of Internet crime cases hits record high in 1st half
1. September 2010
Police responded to a record 2,444 Internet crime cases nationwide in the first half of this year, a National Police Agency survey showed Thursday. The number, up 586 or 31.5 percent from a year earlier, represented a new high since the NPA started gathering statistics for Internet crimes, defined as crimes which use a computer network, [...]
Continue reading...Threats keep dolphin protest out of Japan village
1. September 2010
The star of “The Cove,” an Oscar-winning documentary about a Japanese dolphin hunt, is back in Japan to protest the slaughter but had to cancel his trip to the village at the center of the controversy because of threats from an ultranationalist group. Instead, Ric O’Barry, the former dolphin-trainer for the 1960s “Flipper” TV show, is [...]
Continue reading...Naked romp lands man, woman before prosecutors
1. September 2010
Police turned over to prosecutors Wednesday their case against a 21-year-old man who walked naked on a street in Yokohama last month and a 22-year-old woman who ordered him to do so, alleging they committed acts of public indecency. The woman and the man had been living together since January. She was angry with him [...]
Continue reading...Violence, sexual harassment on trains linked by power of anonymity
1. September 2010
An investigation by the Association of Japanese Private Railways has shown that in fiscal 2009, there were 869 cases of violence committed against train station employees and train crew members. This marked a rise of 117 cases from the 2008 fiscal year, and the most number of cases since the association began compiling such records [...]
Continue reading...Japanese-Argentine couple win world tango championships
1. September 2010
A Japanese-Argentine couple won the stage dancing division of the Eighth World Tango Championships held Tuesday in Buenos Aires, reports from Argentina said. The achievement by Japanese dancer Chizuko Kuwamoto and Diego Ortega from Argentina follows the victory in last year’s contest by Japanese married couple Hiroshi and Kyoko Yamao in the salon dancing category. In this [...]
Continue reading...Kobe eyes tattoo ban at Suma public beach after marijuana case
1. September 2010
The Kobe municipal government is considering banning people with tattoos from a beach in Suma Ward following the recent arrests of college students for alleged marijuana possession during a music event at the beach, city officials said. The city office intends to come up with a concrete plan during this year, including establishing the rule by [...]
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- As temperatures soar, Japanese turn to ghost houses September 2, 2010
- NHK to resume live broadcasts of sumo September 2, 2010
- Police to send papers on ‘thieving cop’ September 2, 2010
- Japan finds fresh suspected foot-and-mouth case September 2, 2010
- No. of Internet crime cases hits record high in 1st half September 1, 2010
- Threats keep dolphin protest out of Japan village September 1, 2010
- Naked romp lands man, woman before prosecutors September 1, 2010
2. September 2010
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