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A police officer stands guard near a McDonald's outlet in Kitakyushu on Dec. 15, a day after two teens were stabbed inside the restaurant, one fatally.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jan 16, 2025
Kitakyushu stabbing suspect claims targeted teens 'mocked' him
Fukuoka Prefectural Police are investigating the murder case, suspecting that the anger was triggered by a one-sided grievance.
Masanori Hirabaru, 43, is escorted out of a police station in Kitakyushu on Dec. 20 to be brought to prosecutors in relation to a double stabbing at a McDonald's outlet in Fukuoka Prefecture. He was rearrested Thursday on a charge of murder.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jan 9, 2025
Police rearrest suspect in McDonald's attack on murder charge
Authorities have rearrested Masanori Hirabaru, 43, over the double stabbing in Fukuoka Prefecture in December that left one of two teenage victims dead.
Broken window glass is seen at Masanori Hirabaru's house in Kitakyushu's Kokuraminami Ward.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Dec 20, 2024
Police raided suspect's home to arrest him after fatal Kitakyushu stabbing
The arrest marked the culmination of an intensive investigation to apprehend the suspect in the fatal stabbing.
A McDonald's outlet in Kitakyushu where two teens were stabbed, one fatally, on Saturday. Police arrested a 43-year-old suspect on Thursday morning.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Dec 19, 2024
43-year-old man arrested over Kitakyushu McDonald's stabbings
Two junior high school students were stabbed in the weekend attack, with one dying from her injuries.
Police guard the scene early Sunday morning of a stabbing incident at a McDonald's store in Kitakyushu's Kokuraminami Ward.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Dec 18, 2024
What we know so far about the Kitakyushu stabbings
Authorities are analyzing surveillance and dashcam footage from the area in an effort to identify and locate the attacker.
Flowers and offerings are placed outside a McDonald's restaurant in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, where two junior high school students were stabbed by a man on Saturday, one fatally.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Dec 16, 2024
Fatal knife attack in Kitakyushu McDonald’s took less than 30 seconds
One student attacked by the unknown assailant, who is still at large, died from blood loss while the other is not in a life-threatening condition.
A McDonald's in Kitakyushu where a junior high school student was stabbed to death on Saturday
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Dec 15, 2024
Schoolgirl stabbed to death in Kitakyushu
The students — one boy and one girl — were both rushed to the hospital where the girl died and the boy remained conscious.
The remains of the original Moji Station in Kitakyushu
JAPAN / Society
Nov 22, 2024
133-year-old Kyushu railway station remains to be partially preserved
Sections of the foundation of what used to be the locomotive shed — which experts believe is the most important element of the remains — will be kept.
Violin, a day care center for the elderly, is housed in a building that used be an office of the Kudokai crime syndicate in the city of Kitakyushu. It retains the original look of the Kudokai facility, with its thick steel-plated front door, glittering chandelier and marble floor.
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Kyushu
Oct 28, 2024
Former yakuza office repurposed to become elderly care facility
The building that houses Violin, a day care center for the elderly, was once one of the main facilities for the Kudokai syndicate.
Voters get their belongings checked Wednesday at a venue for Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's stump speech in the town of Itano, Tokushima Prefecture.
JAPAN / Society
Oct 18, 2024
Election causing disruptions amid autumn sports day season
Elementary schools designated as polling stations have been forced to reschedule sports events, and even some activities unrelated to schools are being canceled.
The future of 133-year-old remains, which lay buried beneath Kitakyushu for a century, is unclear amid the city's redevelopment plans.
JAPAN
Sep 4, 2024
Global conservation body calls on Kitakyushu to halt redevelopment plans
The city said the project will proceed as planned as there are no alternative sites and further delays could threaten the provision of public services.
Remnants of the first Moji station complex are located near the current Mojiko Station in the city of Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture.
JAPAN / Society
Aug 27, 2024
Kitakyushu clashes with academics over Meiji Era remains
The city wants to proceed with plans to build a five-story complex to house several aging public facilities on the site of the original Moji railway station.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 12, 2024
Death sentence overturned for Kudokai gang boss
The criminal mastermind remained expressionless and stared directly at the judge as it was announced that the death sentence had been overturned.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 30, 2022
We're hiring: Babies wanted for Japan nursing home
New recruits at the facility must be under four years old, and their guardians have to sign a contract stipulating that the babies and can show up for work 'whenever they feel like it.'
Japan Times
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Nov 8, 2020
Kitakyushu to host both gymnastics world championships in 2021
The southern city of Kitakyushu will host the 2021 Artistic and Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships, the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) announced on Sunday, becoming the first city to welcome both events in the same year.
JAPAN
Aug 17, 2019
Kitakyushu and Fukuoka to introduce accommodation tax from April
Kitakyushu officials agreed with the Fukuoka Prefectural Government on Friday to set its planned accommodation tax for people staying at hotels in the city at ¥200 per guest per night.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Kyushu
Jul 5, 2019
Guardian Angels Japan finding less to do in Kitakyushu, one-time city of yakuza 'endless conflict'
Up until five years ago, the city of Kitakyushu had for decades grappled with so many shootings and violent attacks by organized crime groups that it was known as a city of shura (never-ending conflict).
U.S. Osprey accidentally drops cargo into sea in Okinawa
A V-22 Osprey
Large fire breaks out near Osaka's Tsutenkaku Tower
Smoke rises from a fire at a commercial building near Tsutenkaku Tower, in Osaka, on Tuesday.
Nissan to end production of compact van as Honda rescue looms
A trailer transports Nissan’s NV200 Venette minivans in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture.
Kanagawa high school student arrested for credit card data theft
A 17-year-old student from Kanagawa Prefecture has been arrested for allegedly creating a program that purported to verify the validity of credit cards and using it to illegally obtain their details.
SoftBank to help fund and lead Trump-backed Stargate AI project, a $500 billion venture
U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks on Stargate, as Oracle Executive Chairman Larry Ellison, SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman look on in the Roosevelt room at the White House.
'America first' returns as Trump ditches focus on allies and rules-based order
U.S. President Donald Trump reviews troops during his inauguration ceremony at the Capitol in Washington on Monday.
Japan looks to learn from the past with bid to build Australian warships
The Maritime Self-Defense Force's Mogami frigate, of the class of the same name, is anchored at the MSDF's naval base in the city of Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, in September 2022.
Amid rising world hunger, a Japan-inspired group in Kenya is making a big impact
Wawira Njiru, the founder of Food4Education, serves food during the opening of a new kitchen in Mombasa County, Kenya, in 2022. The organization started in 2012 by feeding 25 children out of a single kitchen. Now it feeds nearly half a million every day.
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