The Japanese government is set to introduce new standards on evaluating the durability of wooden buildings with the aim of ...

Delicate touches can be seen in the minimalist design of the Saitama Prefecture Agriculture and Forestry Hall in this eastern ...

Police in Saitama City have arrested a 33-year-old unemployed man on suspicion of assaulting and robbing a woman in her 30s as she walked along a street. According to police, the incident occurred at ...

SAITAMA (TR) – There have been a series of bag-snatching incidents across the prefecture. Police recorded 12 thefts over a ...

A Saitama nursery school director was arrested Tuesday for urinating in a student’s water bottle as a form of punishment, ...

An 86-year-old man who had continued to seek a retrial over his conviction in a high-profile murder case in this eastern ...

On February 27, Masamichi Hidaka, a 30-year-old clinical radiologist at Koshigaya Municipal Hospital, allegedly took tosatsu ...

The metal mass found inside an underground sewer pipe near the site of a sinkhole in Saitama Prefecture has been identified as the cab of a truck that plunged into the hole created by the incident ...

The sinkhole, which opened on 28 January in Saitama prefecture, swallowed the 1,800kg vehicle, trapping the truck driver. Rescuers initially heard the driver responding, but lost contact soon after.