Suspected stalker arrested for killing woman's husband

IBARAKI Six children were injured when a small whirlwind suddenly sprang up on the grounds of a school in Koga, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Saturday. The school was holding a sports meet at the time, Fuji TV reported. At 1:40 p.m., during a relay race, ...

Print: Jun 07, 2013 Last Modfied: Jun 07, 2013 MITO, IBARAKI PREF. Police gave relatives what they believed were the remains of a dog found in the rubble of a Sunday house fire in Ibaraki Prefecture, only to later admit the remains may have ...

Following a fire on June 2 in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, where a house was destroyed and the couple living there went missing, police handed relatives what they said were the remains of a family dog -- which were later discovered to be part of a ...

IBARAKI An 8-year-old boy on Monday fell to his death from the balcony of the 9th-floor apartment where he lived with his family in Ushiku, Ibaraki Prefecture. According to police, the incident occurred at around 5:25 a.m. NTV reported that the boy ...

The exposure of 33 researchers to radiation on May 23 at a Japan Atomic Energy Agency research facility in Tokai, Ibaraki Prefecture, revealed the JAEA’s failure to uphold basic safety standards. Education and science minister Mr. Hakubun ...

IBARAKI, Japan — Hideki Matsuyama had rounds of 67 and 65 on Monday to earn one of five spots in a U.S. Open qualifier in Japan. Matsuyama was a two-time winner of the Asia-Pacific Amateur and twice made the cut at the Masters as a teenager. This ...

OARAI, IBARAKI PREF. Hideki Matsuyama, who has designs on a career on the U.S. tour, on Sunday won the Diamond Cup to earn his second JGTO victory since he turned pro in April. The 21-year-old student at Sendai's Tohoku Fukushi University held on ...

IBARAKI Police said Friday that 210 kilograms of rice has been stolen from a house in Inashiki, Ibaraki Prefecture, in what police are treating as the latest in a series of related thefts in the area. Sankei Shimbun reported that the rice was being ...

KITAIBARAKI, IBARAKI PREF. Whitebait fishing resumed in the northern part of Ibaraki Prefecture on Tuesday for the first time since it was voluntarily halted due to the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis. Two fishermen's cooperatives in ...