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Kobe Kita Police Station honors local heroes Yuito Kuroishi (left), Ruito Nagai (center) and Sakutaro Akutagawa during an award ceremony on July 24.
JAPAN / Society / FOCUS
Aug 2, 2026
¡®Hey Siri, call 119¡¯: How three kids proved a smartphone can be a lifeline
The way fifth-graders responded to a recent medical emergency in Kobe prompts questions over whether smartphones are a dangerous distraction or an essential safety tool.
Seiji Shimomura, 68, guides new Akashi city employees around the accident site on Tuesday morning.
JAPAN
Jul 21, 2026
Akashi crowd crush victims remembered 25 years on
Bereaved relatives, local residents and others offered prayers in front of a memorial on a pedestrian overpass where the crowd crush happened July 21, 2001.
Hyogo prefectural assembly member Kenichi Okutani (right) and his attorney hold a news conference in Kobe on Monday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 14, 2026
Decision not to indict anti-NHK group¡¯s head found to be inappropriate
During the campaign for the 2024 Hyogo gubernatorial election, Takashi Tachibana gave an allegedly intimidating speech in front of a prefectural assembly member¡¯s home-cum-office.
For many people, utility poles and power lines have become such a familiar part of Â鶹´«Ã½ landscape that they often go unnoticed.
JAPAN / Society / Longform
Jul 13, 2026
Why Â鶹´«Ã½ utility poles won¡¯t be disappearing anytime soon
Burying Â鶹´«Ã½ power lines is far more difficult ¡ª and expensive ¡ª than it looks.
Notebooks and related materials seized by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, on Tuesday in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 8, 2026
Three arrested in Japan over illegal brokering of overseas organ transplant
It was the first time for Japanese police to take action against suspected organ transplant mediation for fees, according to Tokyo¡¯s Metropolitan Police Department.
The front page carries news of a former prime minister's arrest as the Lockheed scandal expands.
JAPAN / History / Japan Times Gone By
Jul 1, 2026
Japan Times 1976: Ex-Prime Minister Tanaka arrested
From Tanaka¡¯s dramatic arrest to the Akashi stampede, Japan confronted tragedy and accountability.
An apartment complex in Kobe where a man¡¯s severed body was found in a freezer on Saturday
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jun 24, 2026
Ex-wife arrested after bisected body found in freezer at Kobe apartment
The suspect has admitted to abandoning the body and also suggested that she killed her former husband, according to investigative sources.
Police said a body found in a freezer in a Kobe apartment was identified as Yutaka Nishiguchi, who lived in the apartment.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jun 23, 2026
Bisected body of man who died in 2011 found in Kobe apartment freezer
An autopsy revealed that the person, who lived in the apartment where his severed body was found, died around December 2011.
Hyogo Gov. Motohiko Saito will not be indicted after a citizens' panel decided to uphold a prosecutors' decision not to indict the governor.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jun 21, 2026
Panel upholds decision not to indict Hyogo governor
The committee in Kobe determined that the prosecutors¡¯ decision was reasonable, rejecting an appeal filed by a professor and a lawyer.
A lawyer representing the mother (left, blurred for privacy reasons) of a girl who died after being detained speaks during a news conference in Kobe on Wednesday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jun 19, 2026
Japanese mother sues state over teen¡¯s ¡®hostage justice¡¯ death
The mother of a girl who died from emaciation following detention and alleged interrogations by authorities is seeking compensation, in the latest case of ¡°hostage justice.¡±
Hyogo Prefectural Police have confirmed that a body found floating in a river in the city of Tatsuno was that of Kenji Oyama, the suspect in a recent double murder case.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jun 4, 2026
Body found in river confirmed as suspect in Hyogo double murder case
Kenji Oyama, 42, had been wanted on suspicion of killing a 52-year-old woman and her 74-year-old mother at their home last month.
Mamoru Hase, the father of a boy murdered in a series of attacks on elementary schoolchildren in 1997, speaks during an interview in Kobe earlier this month.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
May 25, 2026
Father still searching for answers 29 years after Kobe child murders
For 70-year-old Mamoru Hase, whose son was one of two elementary schoolchildren killed by a 14-year-old boy in 1997, there is no such thing as closure.
Kenji Oyama in 2017 (left) and from security camera footage earlier this month, as featured in a police wanted poster.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
May 25, 2026
Arrest warrant issued for man suspected of Hyogo mother-daughter murder
Kenji Oyama, 42, emerged as a suspect based on forensic analysis and security camera footage from around the scene.
A mother and her daughter were found dead at their home in Tatsuno, Hyogo Prefecture, on Tuesday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
May 20, 2026
Mother and daughter found dead in Hyogo Prefecture home in apparent stabbing
The police are investigating the circumstances surrounding their deaths, suspecting that the two may have been caught up in a crime as no weapons have been found.
The former Suma Belt Conveyor Tunnel is used as a filming location for "City Hunter"
JAPAN / FOCUS
May 7, 2026
Film commissions give economic boost to local communities
The nonprofit entities provide help with location-hunting, site coordination and filming operations free of charge.
A memorial ceremony for victims of a 2005 train derailment is held in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, on Saturday.
JAPAN
Apr 25, 2026
Victims mourned 21 years after JR West train crash in Amagasaki
On April 25, 2005, a train entered a curved section at a speed far exceeding the limit and derailed, with the first and second cars colliding with a nearby apartment building.
Hyogo Gov. Motohiko Saito (center) has denied any involvement in the leaking of the private information of a whistleblower who died in July 2024.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 28, 2026
Hyogo governor not indicted over information leak case
Hyogo Gov. Motohiko Saito has denied any involvement in the leaking of the private information of a whistleblower who died in July 2024.
The revised antistalking law, enforced Dec. 30, bans the installation of antiloss tags to gain information on a target's location without their permission.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Feb 19, 2026
First action taken against tracker abuse under antistalking law in Kobe
The revised antistalking law, enforced Dec. 30, bans the installation of antiloss tags to gain information on a target¡¯s location without their permission.
Centrist Reform Alliance candidate in Hyogo¡¯s No. 8 district, Yoshie Hirokawa (center), stands on the stage after pitching her candidacy to Komeito¡¯s supporters in the Sonoda district of Amagasaki together with members of Hyogo Prefectural Assembly and Amagasaki City Assembly.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Feb 5, 2026
Where will Komeito¡¯s votes go? The answer might come from this Hyogo district
Amagasaki is now a heated battleground as campaign teams rush to woo supporters of the ruling party¡¯s former coalition partner.
Stars Kobe (in solid blue), the Kansai region's first professional ice hockey team, has introduced the sport to a whole new audience since beginning play in September of last year.
MORE SPORTS / Ice Hockey
Jan 28, 2026
Kansai¡¯s first pro ice hockey team chases fans and wins
Stars Kobe¡¯s first win gave Kansai its first taste of pro hockey joy, but now comes the hard part: growing the fan base in a market ruled by baseball.
Gut bacteria may be behind many of Â鶹´«Ã½ colorectal cancer cases
A Japanese research team found that a toxin produced by certain E. coli strains, colibactin, caused genetic mutations in nearly half of colorectal cancer cases studied
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
She is Russia¡¯s richest woman. Her business empire is going up in flames.
Tatyana Kim, the head and co-founder of Wildberries, speaks about Ukrainian drone attacks on the company's warehouses in the course of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, at an unidentified location, in this still image from a handout video released on July 31.
Severe tropical storm Chan-hom makes landfall near Tokyo
Severe Tropical Storm Chan-hom made landfall around Ibaraki Prefecture, near Tokyo, on Tuesday night.
What Â鶹´«Ã½ language rules for permanent residency should look like
Potential health care workers hoping to find work in Japan take Japanese language instruction in Jakarta. Not all applicants for permanent residency should be expected to reach this level of proficiency.
Where do foreign residents in Japan want to die?
The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery is one of the few cemeteries in Japan that allows burials, albeit with conditions for the deceased, including foreign nationality and permanent residency in Kanagawa Prefecture.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
As Â鶹´«Ã½ concrete jungles sizzle, urban forestry offers an all-natural fix
People and birds find relief from the sun in Tokyo's Nakano Ward earlier this month. While experts agree that urban greening is crucial to mitigating the impact of climate change, trees are becoming even more scarce in Japanese cities.
Â鶹´«Ã½ brewers experiment with a secret ingredient: music
At Smoke Craft, a craft beer brewery in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture, music isn't just a background to the brewing process ¡ª it's an ingredient.
As countries ban social media for children, Japan mulls a different approach
Data from NTT Docomo¡¯s Mobile Society Research Institute released in June found that 55% of respondents across all age groups said they fiddled with their phones when they had nothing to do, even when another person was in front of them.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo¡¯s ¡®stadium of desire¡¯

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Disaster relief workers Taichi Kato (left) and Seiji Yoshimura enter the collapsed living quarters at Kyuganji temple in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture.
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