Popular car name Subaru likely to be adopted by Gunma town
MAEBASHI, Japan, Jun 09, 2001 (Kyodo via COMTEX) -- The name of a famous car model, Subaru, may be adopted in the city where the main plant of its maker Fuji Heavy...
View ArticleMan gets suspended term for hanging boy upside down
MAEBASHI, Japan, Jul 08, 2001 (Kyodo via COMTEX) -- The Maebashi District Court on Monday sentenced a 42-year-old roof tiler to 16 months in prison, suspended for three...
View ArticleWomen Barred From Tunnel In Japan For Fear Of Angering 'Deity'
MAEBASHI, Japan, Around 30 local women on a tour of a tunnel construction site in Gunma Prefecture were barred from entering the site by a foreman who said women...
View Article2 state universities agree to continue talks on planned merger
MAEBASHI, Japan, Jan 18, 2002 (Kyodo via COMTEX) -- Gunma University and Saitama University, both state-run institutions, have agreed to promote talks for a possible merger against the...
View Article2 die after antibiotic-resistant bacteria infections in Gunma
MAEBASHI Two inpatients at a hospital in Ota, Gunma Prefecture, died in mid-April from apparent infections of...
View ArticleLand ministry official held for flashing train conductor
MAEBASHI Police on Tuesday arrested a 44-year-old career official of the Land, Infrastructure and Transport Ministry on loan to the municipal office of Kiryu in Gunma Prefecture on suspicion of...
View Article31 Chinese, kin to file damage suit over WWII forced labor
Monday, May 27, 2002 at 09:30 JST MAEBASHI Eighteen Chinese men and 13 bereaved family members will file a damage suit against the state and two major construction firms seeking compensation for...
View ArticleNepalese couple held for running "underground bank"
Friday, June 14, 2002 at 09:30 JST MAEBASHI A Nepalese couple in Ota, Gunma Prefecture, were arrested Thursday on suspicion of running an "underground bank" by having remitted money to their...
View ArticleBungy jumper hurt after slipping out of belt into river
Saturday, June 22, 2002 at 21:00 JST MAEBASHI A 26-year-old female bungy jumper suffered light injuries Saturday after slipping out of an ankle harness and into the Akaya River following completion...
View ArticleMan gets suspended term for abandoning baby's body
Monday, June 24, 2002 at 18:00 JST MAEBASHI The Maebashi District Court on Monday sentenced a 21-year-old man to one year in prison, suspended for three years, for abandoning the body of his...
View Article8 workers hurt in Gunma smelter accident
Friday, July 19, 2002 at 09:30 JST MAEBASHI Eight male workers suffered burns, three of them seriously, Thursday when they were hit by flying melted alloy at a smelter of Toho Zinc Co in Annaka,...
View ArticleGunman robs farmer in Gunma, takes daughter
Saturday, July 20, 2002 at 20:00 JST MAEBASHI A man armed with what appeared to be a hunting rifle robbed a farmer in the city of Maebashi, capital of Gunma Prefecture, early Saturday morning and...
View Article19-year-old woman abducted in Gunma still missing
Sunday, July 21, 2002 at 18:30 JST MAEBASHI A 19-year-old woman abducted early Saturday morning in the city of Maebashi, capital of Gunma Prefecture, by a man armed with what appeared to be a...
View ArticleGunma girl says abductor considered ransom demand
Tuesday, July 23, 2002 at 09:30 JST MAEBASHI, Japan A 19-year-old girl found unharmed in Tochigi Prefecture on Monday nearly 60 hours after she was abducted by a man from her house in Maebashi,...
View ArticleGunma man arrested in murder of abducted high school girl
Wednesday, July 24, 2002 at 09:30 JST MAEBASHI A man was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of murdering a 16-year-old high school girl he abducted in Gunma Prefecture last week, the police said....
View ArticleAi's killing random, police say
MAEBASHI-The suspect arrested Wednesday in the murder of a 16-year-old girl in Gunma Prefecture reportedly told police: ``I wasn't picky. It could have been anyone.'' Masahito Sakamoto, 36, from...
View Article17th anniversary of fatal JAL crash observed
Monday, August 12, 2002 at 17:30 JST MAEBASHI Bereaved families of the 1985 fatal Japan Airlines (JAL) jumbo jet crash climbed to the crash site on a mountain in Gunma Prefecture on Monday to mark...
View ArticleMan suspected of negligence causing boy's death
Saturday, August 24, 2002 at 19:30 JST MAEBASHI Police questioned a man Saturday morning in Gunma Prefecture on suspicion of professional negligence resulting in the death of a 10-year-old boy,...
View ArticleFour killed, two hurt in Gunma pile-up
Wednesday, September 4, 2002 at 09:30 JST MAEBASHI Four people were killed and two others injured Wednesday morning in a four-vehicle collision in Isesaki, Gunma Prefecture, police said. The police...
View ArticleBrazilian arrested for attempted murder in Gunma
Monday, September 23, 2002 at 18:00 JST MAEBASHI A Brazilian man was arrested Sunday night on suspicion of attempting to kill a compatriot in the town of Oizumi, Gunma Prefecture, police said...
View Article3 killed hurt in Gunma car collision
Saturday, October 19, 2002 at 09:30 JST MAEBASHI Three people were killed and a fourth seriously injured in a two-vehicle collision in Tatebayashi, Gunma Prefecture, early Saturday, police said....
View ArticleGunma official arrested for bribery
Friday, November 1, 2002 at 09:30 JST MAEBASHI The Gunma prefectural police on Thursday arrested an official of the Fujioka municipal government for allegedly taking bribes from a local construction...
View ArticleNEC unit paid smear campaigner
The company says the 25 million was to cover a debt, not to humiliate a former chairman. A subsidiary of NEC Corp. admitted paying 25 million yen to a man who later used vans equipped with...
View ArticleMan killed, 4 hurt in Gunma road accident
Sunday, November 10, 2002 at 07:00 JST MAEBASHI A man was killed and four other people injured Saturday when a passenger car he was riding in collided with a sightseeing bus on a toll road in...
View Article2 killed, 13 hurt in Gunma road accident
Sunday, November 17, 2002 at 18:00 JST MAEBASHI Two people were killed and 13 others injured, one of them critically, Saturday in a head-on collision between a station wagon and a sightseeing bus in...
View ArticleGunma city plans to open bilingual school in 2004
Tuesday, December 3, 2002 at 09:25 JST MAEBASHI The city of Ota, Gunma Prefecture, plans to open a school in April 2004 that mainly employs English as its medium of instruction, city officials said...
View ArticleSeasonal record snow blankets Tokyo
The Tokyo metropolitan area got its first snow of the season, coating the city and neighboring districts with what the Meteorological Agency said Monday was a record for this time of year. The...
View ArticleTraditional skills make the most of silk thread
The crisis in the nation's agricultural sector is most keenly felt in the sericulture industry. This is evident from the fact that imports meet 95 percent of domestic demand for silk. Looking for a...
View Article3 `civilians' killed in gang warfare
MAEBASHI-In what appears to be a botched gangland assassination, three ``civilians'' were shot to death and one critically injured when two men opened fire at a bar here Saturday night, police said....
View ArticleEDITORIAL: Gangsters with guns
Shut off money and weapons for mobsters. A Saturday night shooting at a bar in Maebashi, Gunma Prefecture, was apparently an intended hit on a former gang boss. But in the course of the gunplay, three...
View ArticleInnocent blood: A botched gangland hit in a bar leaves three blameless...
`We whispered to each other that he might be trying to use us as human shields.' BAR CUSTOMER Company employee MAEBASHI-They had a feeling something bad was going to happen. Or at least that's what...
View ArticleMan asserts a role in gang hit
MAEBASHI-A man claiming ties to the Sumiyoshi-kai yakuza...
View ArticlePolice find gun tied to slayings
MAEBASHI-A pistol that might have been the one used in Saturday's gangland hit at a bar here that left four people dead was recovered Thursday, police officials said. Gunma prefectural police, acting...
View ArticleGUNMA / Cherry trees get new life at univ.
After passing through the front gate of the campus of Gunma University's engineering department, one's eyes fall upon a pond surrounded by nine weeping cherry trees, which are in robust health despite...
View ArticleMaebashi, other cities tap My Number system to offer maternal, child health info
Several municipalities have launched a service that offers easy online access to information on maternal and child health through the cards of a 12-digit identification system, dubbed My Number. The...
View ArticleMystery donor who posed as ‘Tiger Mask’ to help poor kids outs himself
A mysterious donor who posed as a cartoon wrestler hero and triggered a wave of similar donations for underprivileged children in Japan several years ago outed himself Wednesday at a pro wrestling...
View ArticleJapanese city to use vein data to identify lost dementia sufferers
In a possible first for Japan, the city of Maebashi, Gunma Prefecture, will start an experiment to register the vein data of elderly residents with dementia so they can be instantly identified if they...
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