Hyogo Prefectural Police have arrested a U.S. tourist after he reported that he had inadvertently brought a handgun into Japan. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/02/japan/crime-legal/us-tourist-gun-japan/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #hyogo #tourism #us #guns #japanesepolice
Hyogo Gov. Motohiko Saito apologized to prefectural government workers on Wednesday after a third-party panel last week found his prefecture's actions in violation of the whistleblower protection law. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/26/japan/politics/hyogo-governor-harassment/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #hyogo #motohikosaito #powerharassment
Prosecutors have indicted a man on charges of murder and attempted murder in connection with two separate knife attacks in Hyogo Prefecture that took place in 2006 and 2007 involving two elementary school girls. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/19/japan/crime-legal/hyogo-attacks-suspect-indicted/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #stabbings #hyogo
A Chinese professor of Kobe Gakuin University in Hyogo Prefecture returned to Japan in January after going missing during his temporary stay in China, university officials said Friday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/14/japan/missing-chinese-back-japan/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #china #hyogo #universities #literature #surveillance #espionage
The Hyogo Prefectural Assembly adopted a report by its special investigative committee that found the prefecture's efforts to identify a whistleblower against Gov. Motohiko Saito to be highly likely illegal. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/05/japan/hyogo-prefecture-harassment-allegations-report/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #hyogo #powerharassment #whistleblowers
The Hyogo arm of Nippon Ishin no Kai says it will expel prefectural assembly member Minoru Kishiguchi for inappropriately providing information to Takashi Tachibana, head of a political group. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/02/27/japan/politics/ishin-hyogo-expulsion/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #minorukishiguchi #makotomasuyama #motohikosaito #takashitachibana #hyogo #nipponishinnokai #powerharassment
A Hyogo Prefectural Assembly member from Nippon Ishin no Kai has offered to leave the party for questionable acts data related to a probe of Hyogo Gov. Motohiko Saito. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/02/23/japan/politics/hyogo-politian-quits-ishin-over-data/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #nipponishinnokai #hyogo #motohikosaito #takashitachibana #nhkparty #localgovernment
Two Hyogo Prefectural Assembly members from the Nippon Ishin no Kai have resigned from a panel investigating alleged harassment by Hyogo Gov. Motohiko Saito after leaking information from the probe. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/02/21/japan/politics/ishin-hyogo-resignation/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #nipponishinnokai #hyogo #takashitachibana #motohikosaito #powerharassment
Nippon Ishin no Kai has said that a Hyogo Prefectural Assembly member from the party has admitted his involvement in providing key documents to the leader of the controversial NHK Party. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/02/20/japan/politics/ishin-admission-nhk-papers/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #hyogo #motohikosaito #nipponishinnokai #takashitachibana
The Himeji municipal government that it will more than double the admission fee for its castle — a UNESCO World Heritage site — for nonresidents. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/02/16/japan/himeji-castle-fee-rise/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #himejicastle #hyogo #tourism #localgovernment #unesco #worldheritage #edoperiod
The Japanese government is running a program to help local communities promote exchanges with foreign countries that are set to participate in the upcoming Osaka Expo. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/02/11/japan/osaka-expo-cultural-exchanges/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #osakaexpo #tourism #hyogo #okayama #yamaguchi
Authorities have conducted a raid of a public relations firm over allegations that Hyogo Gov. Motohiko Saito paid the company for campaign services during his reelection bid, potentially violating election laws. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/02/07/japan/crime-legal/hyogo-raid-pr/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #hyogo #motohikosaito #japanesepolice #socialmedia
Hideaki Takeuchi, a former Hyogo assemblyman who had taken part in investigations over workplace bullying allegations against Gov. Motohiko Saito that emerged last year, has died in an apparent suicide. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/01/20/japan/crime-legal/hyogo-takeuchi-death/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #hideakitakeuchi #motohikosaito #takashitachibana #hyogo #suicide
Hyogo Prefecture marked the 30th anniversary of the Great Hanshin Earthquake with a desire to pass on lessons learned and a call on the central government to use Kansai as the base for its new disaster relief agency. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/01/17/japan/society/hanshin-30th-ceremony/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #greathanshinearthquake #earthquakes #hyogo #motohikosaito #emperornaruhito
Push for multilingual information post-Hanshin quake is yet to stick https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/01/17/japan/society/hanshin-30th-anniversary/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #greateastjapanearthquake #kobe #language #earthquakes #expats #greathanshinearthquake #hyogo #roxanaoshiro #hyogolatincommunity
Three decades after the Great Hanshin Earthquake, Japan has made significant changes to its disaster response policies. Its next move — establishing a new central agency to better respond to future catastrophes. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/01/16/japan/politics/kobe-quake-30th/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #greathanshinearthquake #earthquakes #hyogo #shigeruishiba #sdf
Tomiko Itooka, recognized by Britain's Guinness World Records as the world's oldest person in September last year, has died in western Japan, health ministry and other officials said Saturday. She was 116. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/01/04/japan/world-oldest-person-dies-japan/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #elderly #aging #hyogo #tomikoitooka
Police have detained a 49-year-old woman who is suspected of stabbing a 75-year-old woman at a train station in the city of Kobe on Wednesday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/12/18/japan/crime-legal/kobe-woman-arrest-station/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #kobe #hyogo #japanesepolice #stabbings
Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako will attend a memorial ceremony on Jan. 17 to mark the 30th anniversary of the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake in western Japan. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/12/16/japan/emperor-empress-hanshin-earthquake/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #hyogo #kobe #greathanshinearthquake #earthquakes #emperornaruhito #empressmasako #imperialfamily
Ahead of major polls in 2025, the Liberal Democratic Party will hold a meeting on Dec. 20 to discuss the use of social media in election campaigns for lawmakers and local assembly members. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/12/06/japan/politics/ldp-social-media-elections-discussion/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #socialmedia #internet #ldp #diet #tokyo #2024lowerhouseelection #hyogo
