A Japanese 10-year-old has become the youngest person authorized to prepare fugu puffer fish — a delicacy that can kill if its poisonous parts are not properly removed. Fifth grader …
Niigata – Environment Minister Shintaro Ito met with Niigata Minamata disease sufferers on Wednesday, apologizing over a recent incident in which citizens’ remarks were cut short during an earlier meeting …
Kumamoto – A ceremony was held Sunday to remember the 276 victims of a pair of powerful earthquakes that struck primarily in Kumamoto Prefecture eight years ago. About 30 people, …
Kumamoto – Takashi Kimura, former vice governor of Kumamoto Prefecture, won Sunday’s gubernatorial election, beating his three contenders including Seishi Koyama, former mayor of the city of Kumamoto, the prefecture’s …
Taipei – Taiwan President-elect Lai Ching-te expressed gratitude to Tokyo on Monday for supporting the expansion of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the world’s largest contract chipmaker, in Japan as he …
Singer Aki Yashiro, the grand dame of Japanese enka ballads who had many big hits during her career spanning five decades, died Dec. 30 of lung disease, her office said. …
Osaka – Osaka District Court on Wednesday recognized 128 plaintiffs rejected from a special Minamata disease relief program as sufferers of the disease, or mercury poisoning caused by polluted industrial …