News On Japan

Police in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, on Wednesday night arrested a 24-year-old unemployed man over four knife attacks within 10 minutes that left one man dead and three others injured on a street. (Japan Today)

The proportion of single nonregular Japanese male workers in their 20s who have girlfriends stood at 18.7 pct in 2012, against 30.7 pct for regular employees, a government survey revealed Thursday. (Jiji Press)

The 24-year-old suspect in the murder of a man on a street in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, on Monday is believed to have posted a profile online in which he identified himself as a "celeb NEET," meaning a celebrity without a job, according to local online news site J-Cast News. (Japan Times)

Police in Sano, Tochigi Prefecture, have indicted a man for stealing more than 200 items of women's underwear in three prefectures. (Japan Today)

The number of victims of child pornography in Japan jumped 22 per cent from a year earlier to 646 in 2013, the highest since records started in 2000, the National Police Agency said Thursday. (The Nation)

Chie Shinpo, senior managing director of brokerage giant Nomura Holdings Inc., is set to become the first woman to head a Japanese bank. (The Japan News)

The number of people belonging to Japan's notorious yakuza crime groups fell to an all-time low in 2013, slipping below the 60,000-member mark for the first time on record, police say. (The Guardian)

The man under arrest for fatally stabbing one man and wounding three others during a 10-minute rampage in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, on Monday night, told police on Thursday that he wanted to hijack a plane at Haneda airport and fly it into Tokyo Skytree to take revenge on society. (Japan Today)

The man lauded as "Japan's Beethoven," who has admitted he never wrote his compositions, appeared before cameras for the first time since the scandal surfaced - clean-shaven and minus his trademark sunglasses. (abcnews.go.com)

The man Newsweek claims is the founder of the bitcoin denies he had anything to do with the digital currency. (Japan Times)

Nikkei rises to fresh five-week high on weak yen; U.S. jobs data eyed (zeenews)

Japan's foreign minister says the government has no plan at the moment to impose sanctions against Russia over the Ukraine crisis. (NHK)

An international survey shows Japanese men fell into a group doing the least housework. (NHK)

Toyota Motor Corp.'s Aqua subcompact hybrid was the top-selling vehicle in February, returning to the No. 1 slot for the first time in five months, according to industry data. (The Japan News)

Struggling electronics company Sony will sell its former headquarters building in Tokyo. The move is the latest in a series of steps by the company to restore financial health. (NHK)

A blizzard struck northern Japan on Friday with authorities warning of avalanches, high waves, strong winds and traffic disruption. (thehindu.com)

The Tokyo District Court on Friday sentenced former Aum Supreme Truth cult member Makoto Hirata to nine years in prison for his involvement in a high-profile 1995 kidnapping and other crimes committed by the doomsday cult. (The Japan News)

Fewer than 40 pct of residents and commuters in Tokyo take specific measures to prepare for a possible huge earthquake beneath the Japanese capital, despite high awareness on disaster prevention, a Metropolitan Police Department survey showed Friday. (Jiji Press)

A government panel approved Friday a proposal on new rates in the government's feed-in tariff program that requires power suppliers to purchase electricity from renewable energy sources at fixed prices. (Jiji Press)

Seven high school students face charges over the suicide of a classmate in Kasuga, Fukuoka Prefecture, last November. (Japan Today)

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