Chiba, Japan News

After finishing eighth at last year's event, Team USA took fifth-place at the 2009 International Chiba Ekiden Monday in Chiba, Japan, finishing in 2:09:42. Host team Japan won the event in 2:05:58. The format of the 21st annual race featured mixed teams of men and women running six alternating legs totaling 42.195 km.

Actor Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie arrive at Narita International Airport with their children Maddox, Vivienne, Zahara and Knox on January 27, 2009 in Narita, Chiba, Japan.

With fuming factories of the Eco Industrial Town in Japan's Chiba province on the background, wooden poles set in the seawater to raise clams are clearly visible.

Onward: Ryozo Watabe, 86, in his home in Funabashi, Chiba Prefecture, in October, talks about his experiences as a Christian who was sent to war.

By Julian Ryall in Tokyo The trawler, the Diasan Shinsho-maru, capsized off Chiba as its three-man crew was trying to haul in a net containing dozens of huge Nomura's jellyfish.

A social welfare organization accused of illegally receiving government subsidies plans to disband after selling a hotel saddled with at least 100 million yen in debt, sources said.

Chiba Gov. Kensaku Morita recently sent a condolence letter to the parents of Lindsay Hawker, the 22-year-old English-language teacher who was found murdered in Chiba Prefecture in 2007, it has been learned.

A somewhat gaunt Tatsuya Ichihashi was handed over to the Chiba District Public Prosecutors Office on Thursday to face questioning about the March 2007 murder of Briton Lindsay Ann Hawker.

Autumn in the southern Kanto is just about ready to show us its great finale. In another week or so the oaks, maples, elms and dogwoods will start changing colors, signaling the start of the local autumn-leaf viewing season.

A man thought to be Tatsuya Ichihashi, who is wanted on suspicion of abandoning the body of a British woman in 2007, was carrying several hundred thousand yen in cash when he underwent cosmetic surgery at a clinic in Nagoya, it was learned Friday.

A Japanese murder suspect who spent two years and seven months on the run and who altered his appearance through cosmetic surgery was arrested Tuesday in connection with the 2007 slaying of a British woman after his identity was confirmed by fingerprints.

November 8, 2009, 11:10 PM - IDG News Service - After keeping operators and users alike waiting for nearly a year, Intel has begun production of a wireless chipset, called Kilmer Peak, that will support three versions of WiMax, 2.3GHz, 2.5GHz and 3.5GHz. Intel's current WiMax chipsets only support the 2.5GHz version of WiMax, which is used markets ...

Just a year into her marriage, Emi Yoshida realized she might not survive it. Her violent, drug-addict husband had tried to strangle her, then beat her unconscious outside their Tokyo home.

Japanese media say Tatsuya Ichihashi has visited several clinics for facial surgery to change his appearance Lindsay Hawker, whose body was found in a bath full of sand on the balcony of a Japanese flat in March 2007.

Fugitive Tatsuya Ichihashi, wanted in connection with the murder of a British woman in 2007, apparently underwent a face-lift last month in Nagoya and may have had other other cosmetic surgeries performed to alter his looks, investigative sources said Wednesday, adding police plan to soon release postoperative photo images.

Best wishes to my readers on this auspicious day. Today is the 13th day of the ninth month in the traditional lunar reckoning.

Cosmo Oil Co. will restart the 110,000 barrel-a-day No. 1 crude distillation unit at its Chiba refinery near Tokyo on Nov.

Looking a little wiped, but being is extremely charming and gracious self with fans as Robert Pattinson arrived at Narita International Airport in Chiba, Japan to begin his worldwide whirlwind tour to promote New Moon .

The 41st Tokyo Motor Show is in full swing, with thousands of visitors pawing through the hundreds of exhibitors' booths.

Summer is over and you may have missed these events. However there's nothing to stop you from planning for next year.