Police in Maibara, Shiga Prefecture, said Thursday that a woman whose body was found in a wooded area on Wednesday, was strangled. A city employee looking for illegal rubbish dumping found the woman’s ...

A 78-year-old man died and his 74-year-old wife is in a critical condition after they were attacked at their high-rise apartment in Otsu City, Shiga Prefecture, on Wednesday. According to police, ...

Three men were arrested on Thursday for allegedly hiding a body, believed to be of a woman, inside a home freezer in the city of Nagahama, Shiga Prefecture. Shiga police arrested Tatsuhiko Iwase ...

Izutsuya in Maibara, Shiga Prefecture, was founded in 1854 ... Foreseeing the full opening of the Tokaido Line from Shinbashi to Kobe in 1889, the company relocated to Maibara and launched ...

Severe labor shortages are taking a toll on Japan's economy. But Shiga prefecture in the western part of the country has found a solution. The prefectural government and local businesses are ...

The home of suspects Tatsuhiko Iwase and his father Koichiro, where a body was found in a freezer, is seen in Nagahama, Shiga Prefecture, in this April 3, 2025, photo taken from a Mainichi Shimbun ...

Now, they loom large over their hometown in Kobe. On July 26 ... “One visitor has come all the way here from Shiga Prefecture” to see the mural, said a representative of Shinko Gakuen ...