Fifth former Fukuoka assembly officer says he prepared ¥5 million in cash
Shigehiro Hatanaka, a former vice speaker, told reporters he set aside the money after taking the post in 2018, calling the practice a "bad custom" everyone knew about.
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Aso Concrete loses JIS certification over altered records
The Japan Building Materials and Housing Equipment Industries Federation revoked the company's certification after finding it shipped concrete mixed to different formulas than buyers were promised.
Care worker, 70, arrested over abuse of 4-month-old girl in Fukuoka
The man is accused of abusing the infant at his home in July and filming the act on his smartphone, according to Fukuoka prefectural police.
Fukuoka mayoral race heads for runoff as 13 candidates split the vote
Kyodo's two-day phone poll puts former MP Shinji Inatomi slightly ahead, with five candidates bunched behind and more than 30% of voters undecided.
Survivor of Japan's deadliest coal mine disaster paints the tunnels he remembers
Yoshimitsu Miyawaki, 88, who lived through the 1963 gas explosion at the Miike coal mine that killed 458, is still drawing the mine for people who never saw it.
A Fukuoka mother built a care service for her son's severe behavioral disability, one helper at a time
Shiho Zahebu was turned away by 40 group homes before a one-to-one visiting care scheme let her son Yuto live on his own. Six years on, her station supports six such households and is short of helpers.
Nakama city assembly member charged over pedestrian hit-and-run injury
Prosecutors in Kitakyushu have charged Mayu Hara, 42, over a crash in Nakama, Fukuoka Prefecture, that left a pedestrian seriously injured.
Fukuoka assembly 'don' breaks silence on cash allegations under restricted press terms
Former speaker Isao Kurauchi, who resigned in August, denied receiving money over assembly personnel and said he would let a third-party panel investigate.
Prosecutors produce new statement in Fukuoka arson trial as defendant denies remembering fire day
Koji Inoue, 58, a former resident of the burned Kitakyushu apartment building, told the court he has no memory of May 7, 2017, and no reason to have visited the site.
Defendant in Kitakyushu fire that killed 6 refuses prosecution questions
Koji Inoue told the Fukuoka District Court's Kokura branch he did not want to answer, and the questioning of the defendant ended the same day.
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