Yamaguchi
(2002 est. pop. 1.5 million). Yamaguchi Prefecture is situated in the west of the Japanese island of Honshu. Occupying an area of 6,108 square kilometers, Yamaguchi is bordered by the Sea of...
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The president and seven other employees of a seafood company in
Sanyoonoda, Yamaguchi Prefecture, were arrested Saturday for
allegedly importing Nor...
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The president and seven other employees of a seafood company in
Sanyoono, Yamaguchi Prefecture, were arrested Saturday for importing
North Korean clams without authorization in February, law-...
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The president and seven other employees of a seafood company in
Sanyoonoda, Yamaguchi Prefecture, were arrested Sat...
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Prosecutors again sought the death penalty Thursday at the
Hiroshima High Court for a man charged with killing a woman and her
baby in Yamaguchi Prefecture in 1999, when he was a minor, follo...
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the death sentence handed to
a 54-year-old man who killed a woman in Fukuyama, Hiroshima
Prefecture, in 1992 while he was on parole from a life sentence fo...
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Most of Japan's bays are hit with red tides or contaminated with
toxic substances and need detailed checkups, a study showed Tuesday.
The Ocean Policy Research Foundation, a Tokyo-based res...
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Major Japanese shipbuilders are moving to increase their
production capacity amid strong demand supported by fast-growing
markets in China and other countries, the companies said.
Major Ja...
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe cast absentee ballots at Tokyo's
Chiyoda Ward office on Sunday ahead of the July 29 House of
Councillors election.
Abe cast his ballots for the Yamaguchi prefectu...
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At least 17 people died and another 17 were injured, including
two who are in critical condition, in recreation-related accidents
Sunday at various summer le...
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Some 10 percent of family dogs, mostly kept indoors, have the
antibody to the Japanese encephalitis virus, according to research by
a group of scholars Thursday.
The research results indic...
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Yamaguchi
LEAD: Japanese seafood company chief arrested over imports of N. Korean clams
