The two brothers are accused of issuing a false death certificate saying the patient died of pneumonia when he was actually killed by another patient. Read more
Akimoto said that he received the payment in question, but added that the money was “neither a reward for a job nor a benefit.” Read more
The prefecture was asked to accept a small amount of high-level nuclear waste returned from overseas instead of more low-level waste, which had been agreed earlier. Read more
The start of the storage facility’s operations is expected to give a boost to the government’s plans to promote nuclear power generation. Read more
Mirai is tasked with ocean research and weather observations in the Arctic Ocean, in hopes of finding the cause and impact of rapid global warming in the area. Read more
In early December, Masanao Saito, 83, a farmer in the Takase district of the inland town of Yamamoto, Miyagi Prefecture, was talking to his mikan tangerine trees full of fruit. “Thank you fo... Read more
Standing at the summit of Hokkaido’s highest peak, I’m overcome with relief. It’s as though I’d been holding my breath the entire climb up. Read more
Sea cucumbers from Aomori Prefecture have lost their market since China imposed a ban on all seafood from Japan following the release of treated radioactive water from Tokyo Electric Power C... Read more
A plan to build a new undersea tunnel running parallel to the Seikan Tunnel linking Hokkaido and Japan’s main island of Honshu has been met with mixed views. Read more
A former president of Japan Wind Development, at the center of a bribery scandal, told executives of the firm that he had asked a lawmaker to make a parliamentary statement in connection wit... Read more
