MITO, Ibaraki Prefecture--Prosecutors demanded the death penalty on June 17 for a man suspected of brutally killing his wife and five children. Hirobumi Komatsu, 36, “took away lives in an ...

MITO--Ibaraki Governor Kazuhiko Oigawa is shrugging off a recent survey that ranked his prefecture as the least attractive in all of Japan. “There are various ways to see attractiveness and each ...

At around 1:20 p.m., a court official entered the apartment of Yuki Aibara, of no known occupation, and her daughter, 30-year ...

Located in the town of Mito in Ibaraki Prefecture, Kairakuen is considered to be one of Japan’s three most beautiful gardens, due in no small part to the roughly 3,000 ume trees that grow within the ...

MITO -- The Ibaraki Prefectural Government on April 12 requested a voluntary halt to shipments of an edible wild tree shoot after radioactive cesium over the legal threshold was detected in samples.

MITO, Japan -- Japan's Ibaraki Airport is trying to cement its status as a third hub in the Kanto region centering on Tokyo, along with Narita and Haneda airports. Deliberations are underway to ...

Currently, these cans are available at 150 vending machine locations in Miyagi Prefecture and 100 in Mito City, Ibaraki Prefecture, though Maruyama Seimen has said it plans to roll them across the ...

Night - Mostly clear. Winds from N to NNW at 6 mph (9.7 kph). The overnight low will be 45 °F (7.2 °C). Sunny with a high of 65 °F (18.3 °C). Winds variable at 5 to 8 mph (8 to 12.9 kph ...

Ibaraki Prefecture, who failed to send the man to a medical institution despite his claims of ill health, caused his death. In 2022, the Mito District Court recognized that the immigration bureau had ...