Youth arrested for hitting 16-year-old girl with baseball bat

NAGANO Police said Monday that two bodies have been found on the Hotaka mountain range in Nagano Prefecture's Northern Alps. According to police, the bodies were discovered near a stream at a point 1,800 meters above sea level on May 18 at around 11 ...

NAGANO KEIKI CO LTD announced that it is expecting an extraordinary profit of JPY 344 million, as gain on selling of securities, for the first quarter of the fiscal year ending

An artist's drawing of a Series E-7 bullet train. (Courtesy of JR East) Hokuriku Shinkansen? Or Hokuriku Nagano Shinkansen? It depends on which prefectural governor you ask. The name of the bullet train line, whose Nagano-Kanazawa connection is ...

Members of the Nagano Prefectural Police force's mountain rescue unit descend a mountain in Hakuba, Nagano Prefecture, on April 19. (Mainichi) Seventeen people were found dead in mountain accidents across Japan during this past Golden Week holiday ...

SHINANO, Nagano -- Two university students drowned in a lake here on May 3 during a brass band training camp. Students from Komazawa University in Tokyo called police at around 5:20 p.m. saying their fellow club members were drowning in Lake Nojiri ...

Nagano Bank Ltd announced that it has decided to issue a year-end dividend payment of JPY 3 per share (JPY 269 million in total), above its latest dividend forecast of JPY 2.5 per share announced on February 5, 2013, to all its shareholders as a ...

NIDEC CORP announced that it has decided to fully acquire its Nagano-based subsidiary through a stock swap, effective September 1, 2013. One share of the subsidiary will be exchanged for 0.017 share of NIDEC CORP. As a result, Nagano-based ...

NAGANO Yuki Kawauchi pulled away from Russia's Alexey Sokolov with around 2 km left to win the Nagano Marathon on Sunday. Kawauchi won the race for the first time when he cut the tape at Minami Nagano Athletic Park in 2 hours, 14 minutes, 27 ...

NAGANO The Nagano Marathon passed off without major incident on Sunday less than a week after twin blasts at the Boston Marathon killed three people and wounded about 180. "We closed the" gate at 13:30 p.m. without any significant troubles,? a ...