Japan Today2d
Hokkaido man arrested after asking convenience store to lend him money
It’s been said many times before that Japanese convenience stores are amazing both in the quality of food they sell and wide range of services they offer. During a simple trip to the corner store here ...
The Tokyo Reporter2d
Hokkaido court hands woman 23-year prison term over the murder of teenage girl
HOKKAIDO (TR) – A court Asahikawa City last week sentenced a 19-year-old woman to 23 years in prison for murder and other ...
Woman gets 23-year jail term for murder of high schooler in Hokkaido
A 20-year-old woman was sentenced on Friday to 23 years in prison by a Japanese district court for killing a high schoo ...
The Japan Times1d
Oto, Japan’s oldest lion, dies at 25 — equivalent to 100 human years
Born in 1999 at Asahiyama Zoo in the city of Asahikawa, Hokkaido, Oto had been at Aichi Prefecture's Toyohashi Zoo & ...
朝日新聞社2y
Bullied junior high school girl froze to death to escape torment
ASAHIKAWA, Hokkaido--A third party committee investigating ... Saaya Hirose was found dead from exposure in March 2021 after confiding in a friend she wanted to die. The second-year junior ...
朝日新聞社9d
Panel report fails to determine if girl died because she was bullied
20, which found that Saaya Hirose, 14, was bullied by senior students at her junior high school in Asahikawa, Hokkaido, before she froze to death in a local park in March 2021. But while the ...