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3 killed, 4 injured in car accident involving 83-yr-old driver
OSAKA — Three people were killed and four injured in a traffic accident in Kishiwada, Osaka Prefecture, on Monday night, police said Tuesday. According to police, the accident took place more »
Woman arrested over dumping of daughter’s body denies killing
OITA, Japan (Kyodo) — A 35-year-old woman who was arrested Sunday for allegedly dumping the body of her 2-year-old daughter in southwestern Japan’s Oita Prefecture last September has told police more »
Oita woman confesses to lying about daughter’s abduction, burying body
OITA — Police said Monday they have arrested a woman for abandoning a corpse after the partial remains of her baby were found in the woods near her house in more »
The Barehanded Beekeeper
Meet Hisaki Nasu, a 77-year-old farmer in Miyazaki prefecture with a hands-on approach to beekeeping: bee hands 投稿者 mcdouchey Video is only in Japanese This man sticks his bare hands more »
Mt. Sakurajima sees record high 996 eruptions in 2011
KAGOSHIMA (Kyodo) — Mt. Sakurajima, an active volcano in southwestern Japan, explosively erupted 996 times in 2011, the most since record keeping began in 1955, the local meteorological observatory said more »
Water leaked from Japan N-plant
TOKYO (AFP) – A Japanese nuclear plant leaked 1.8 tonnes of radioactive water from its cooling system, the government said, heightening safety worries as an atomic crisis continues at another more »
Radioactive water leaked at second Japan plant
A JAPANESE nuclear plant leaked 1.8 tonnes of radioactive water from its cooling system, the government said, heightening safety worries as an atomic crisis continues at another plant. The leak, more »
Japan’s reactor capacity utilization rate rebounds to 20.1% in Nov.
Genkai nuclear power plant, owned by Kyushu Electric Power Co., TOKYO (Kyodo) — The utilization ratio of Japan’s 54 commercial nuclear reactors came to 20.1 percent in November, rebounding for more »
Radioactive water leaks inside Japan plant
This photo taken in June 2011 shows the No. 3 reactor building of Kyushu Electric Power Co.’s Genkai plant in the town of Genkai, southwestern Japan. Radioactive water leaked inside more »
