Two U.S. women have been arrested in connection with the smuggling of cannabis into Japan. The seized cannabis is valued at $1 million.
The motivation behind the smuggling is attributed to one of the suspects wanting a free trip. This is according to a claim made by one of the women arrested.
Further details about the arrest and the smuggling operation are available from the source.
Local
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan will watch bond market moves with an "extremely high" sense of urgency after the yield on the benchmark 10-year government bond
Local
TOKYO -- A new five-year integrated bachelor's and master's program at the University of Tokyo teaching all courses in English will have an enrollment
News
KUSHIRO, Japan (Kyodo) -- A town assemblyman on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido said Thursday he has decided to quit after violating loca
government
FUKUCHIYAMA, Kyoto -- The municipal assembly in this Kyoto Prefecture city adopted a written opinion on Sept. 10 calling for the Japanese government a
business
SAITAMA -- Bustling Vietnamese restaurants near train stations are now a familiar sight in Saitama Prefecture, north of Tokyo. But suspicions have sur
safety
TOKYO -- Japan's National Police Agency (NPA) is set to establish an expert panel to discuss ways to use foreign workers in the labor-short security i
Local
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's wholesale prices in August rose 7.6 percent from a year earlier, remaining above 7 percent for the third consecutive month, d
government
The Minamiizu Municipal Board of Education in Shizuoka Prefecture announced that it had confirmed the hatching of loggerhead sea turtle eggs and baby
News
TSU -- The first oral argument regarding a resident lawsuit seeking damages over a public opinion survey conducted by Mie Prefecture in central Japan
Local
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's Foreign Ministry on Thursday lowered travel warnings for parts of Israel, two other Middle Eastern countries and Palestine af
News
(AP) -- The Trump administration's policy of holding immigrants without a chance for release on bond is illegal and "harkens back to some of the darke
Local
NAGOYA (Kyodo) -- U.S. electric vehicle maker Tesla Inc. on Friday unveiled the Cybercab, its purpose-built autonomous robotaxi, in Tokyo's Aoyama dis
