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TOKYO — Floyd Mayweather is planning on fighting Japanese kickboxer Tenshin Nasukawa on Dec. 31 in Saitama, north of Tokyo. Mayweather is 50-0 (win-loss) in his boxing career but has never fought professionally under MMA rules. Although…
The gunman in the killing of Japanese national Junko Hamada was arrested in his hiding place in Barangay Tisa, Cebu City, Tuesday afternoon (October 9). Police also recovered a .45 caliber pistol and two medium packs of…
TOKYO — Part of Japan’s plan to ease its severe labor shortage involves enticing retirees back to work. But even they are in short supply these days, crippling industries that once had an ample labor pool of…
CEBUANA actress Natileigh Marie Therese “Nats” Sitoy headlines the upcoming Japanese film titled, “Itoshi No Irene.” She plays Irene Gonzales, an 18-year-old innocent, bubbly, and warm hearted Filipina. “I really studied the character. I observed and interviewed…
PLAN TO RUN FOR DAANBANTAYAN MAYOR PROVINCIAL Board (PB) Member Sun Shimura will fly to Japan to seek his father’s advice about his plans to run as Daanbantayan mayor in next year’s election. Shimura, who is the…
A 36-year-old former factory worker has been slapped with life imprisonment for the gang-rape and murder of a sophomore student from Ibaraki University in Japan back in 2004. The Mito District Court sentenced Jerico Miro Lampano in…
THE National Bureau of Investigation in Central Visayas (NBI-7) is studying the possibility of filing a complaint against the parents of the 13-year-old girl whom NBI agents rescued on Thursday while in the company of a 71-year-old…
A Japanese national was arrested by agents of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI-7) on accusations that he molested a minor. Akira Togo was with a 13-year-old girl inside his room in his house at Barangay…
With the growing emergence of Filipino fanaticism for Anime, Manga, Matcha Flavor and Japanese comedy shows, Japanese salons owned and managed by Japanese entrepreneurs have been blossoming in Cebu lately. The latest addition to the wave of…
A JAPANESE tourist is facing trial for allegedly slipping in 20 million yen or about P9.6 million when he arrived in Cebu last June 12. Sakaguchi Yuki, 32, was indicted by the Lapu-Lapu City Prosecutor’s Office of…
A Japanese National was found lifeless in his rented apartment in Escario Extention, Barangay Kamputhaw, Cebu City past 2 p.m. on Saturday (June 9). Senior Police 1 Wetzel Berry of Homicide Section identified the victim as Sakira…
If there was something that struck me about my recent trip, it was that Japan is very rich in history and culture, aside from being a very disciplined society and having really great food. Being a car…
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