Tottori Prefecture

Woman, man probed over six deaths

TOTTORI (Kyodo) A 35-year-old woman with links to six men whose suspicious deaths were recently uncovered in Tottori Prefecture and her 46-year-old male roommate were served fresh warrants and indicted Friday on separate counts...

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Increase of poisoning by the tropical mushrooms in Japan in recent years. - Yokoyama K, Gonmori K.

A tropical poisonous mushroom, Chlorophyllum molybdites, invaded into Japan in recent years, and distributed in south-eastern and central part of Japan including 27 Prefectures in 2009; Gunma, Tochigi, Saitama, Ibaraki, Tokyo...

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Sports › Kashima makes Emperor's Cup quarterfinals with last-gasp win over Kobe

Sunday 15th November, 04:20 AM JST TOKYO — A textbook header from substitute Danilo in the 88th minute gave Kashima Antlers a 2-1 win over Vissel Kobe in the fourth round of the Emperor’s Cup on Saturday and a berth in the...

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Japan's 'Black Widow' serial killer accused of killing six men

Details of how six men met their untimely ends, allegedly at the hands of a woman the Japanese media has dubbed the Black Widow, are shocking the public here - not least because of their inventiveness. Police in the southern...

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Forecast Japan, weather Japan, meteo Japan

Weather Japan, Tokyo meteo, weather weekend forecast season, the weather in the mountains, the weather on the coast, the weather on the beach, sea water temperature, weather in the capital, the weather in the mountains, the...

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Crime › Police begin murder investigation of 6 deaths linked to Tottori woman

Sunday 08th November, 06:29 AM JST TOTTORI — Police began a full-fledged investigation Saturday over a number of suspicious deaths surrounding a Tottori Prefecture woman arrested over a fraud case with the possibility of...

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Ordinary Britons to get taste of exclusive Japanese beef

LONDON — Japanese Wagyu beef has long been the preserve of Britain’s exclusive restaurants and London’s high-end stores, like Harrods. Although not pure Wagyu meat, which retails for as much as $170 per kilogram, the meat will...

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Foul play suspected in deaths of 3 men in Tottori

Foul play is suspected behind the deaths of three men in the city of Tottori, with sleep-inducing drugs found in their bodies, police sources said Thursday. One of the three is said to have been in financial trouble with a...

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Season's first snow seen in Tohoku

Cities in the Tohoku region, including Yamagata, Niigata and Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, had their first snow of the season Tuesday as a cold air mass moved over Japan, the Meteorological Agency said. Many cities across the...

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Panasonic to cut battery JV stake

OSAKA (Kyodo) Panasonic Corp. will cut its equity stake in a hybrid-vehicle battery venture it jointly runs with Toyota Motor Corp. to expedite its takeover of Sanyo Electric Co., sources said Thursda...

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