NBI arrests Japanese tourist inside motel room

Victor Anthony V. Silva 03/10/2016

The National Bureau of Investigation in Central Visayas (NBI 7) arrested a 69-year-old Japanese tourist who’s accused of trafficking and raping a minor. Yoshiyo Morino was with a 15-year-old girl and clad in only his boxer shorts…

AITO KITAZAKI: Art as activism

Hayde Quiñanola 02/21/2016

SIMPLE and symbolical, controversial and inspiring, relevant and sometimes irreverent, blend into the graffiti street art of Aito Kitazaki. Aito is a Japanese street artist hailing from Setagaya-ku, Tokyo. His graffiti are inspired by the politically controversial…

Comfort women: No one is listening

01/30/2016

Abandoned by the government–this is how the Malaya Lolas feel in their quest for justice for the abuses they suffered during the World War II under the Japanese regime. Lola Belen Culala, 84, said not one from…

Fujinoya, a Japanese cake shop

Aissa A. Dela Cruz 01/23/2016

MASTER Baker, Chef Hideo Goto, is a second-generation Japanese baker whose family owns a chain of bakeries in the district of Kamo-Gun in Gifu Prefecture  in Chubu Region of Honshu Island. His father, Hideyoshi Goto started Fujinoya…

Japanese hurt in road accident

Chito O. Aragon 12/22/2015

A Japanese woman was hit by a motorcycle as she walked on the roadside barangay Camputhaw, Cebu City on Monday night. Yuyu Oki, 22, was rushed to a private hospital where she was confined for treatment. The…

Japanese nationals to be charged Monday

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 09/13/2015

CALL CENTER RAID CHARGES will be filed tomorrow against the Japanese nationals who were arrested on Friday for allegedly working without an employment permit for non-resident aliens. Lawyer Augusto Isidoro, assistant director of the National Bureau of…

Japanese diver dies off Olango

Norman V. Mendoza 07/29/2015

A  64-year-old Japanese tourist died  while scuba diving off Olango Island in Lapu-Lapu City last Monday afternoon. Kenichi Nakaizuma, a native of Yamaguchi, Japan, was diving with  Dino Ompad, operations manager of Scuba Star based in barangay…

Jap hopping

Jobers R. Bersales 01/22/2015

There are about six of these that I know of in Cebu and one in Lapulapu City. These are shops that bring in used household items from Japan, the biggest of these usually antique “tansu” (merchants chest)…

Taxi driver saves Japanese from robber

Melissa Q. Cabahug 10/07/2014

Two Japanese residents will never forget two taxi drivers when they reminisce on their days while studying in Cebu. One robbed them while the other helped save them from further harm. Hitomi Harashima and Genki Hirano, both…

New dishes from Mismukuno

PR 08/08/2014

Mismukuno Teppanyaki, the newest Japanese teppanyaki restaurant in town, is delighted to introduce to you three new delectable dishes that will surely satisfy your taste buds. With the already exciting menu they currently have, they are excited…

Japanese tourist died while diving

Norman V. Mendoza 07/10/2014

A 54-YEAR-OLD Japanese tourist died after he lost consciousness while scuba diving in the waters off barangay Maribago, Lapu-Lapu City Monday morning. Yuichi Sugiyama of Saitama, Japan, was declared dead on arrival at the Mactan Doctors’ Hospital.…

Turning Japanese

Orly J. Cajegas 06/28/2014

Looking at it from the outside, it doesn’t take a genius to discern that the place spells Japanese. And once you decide to get inside the 30-seater Mismukunu Teppanyaki Japanese Restaurant along AS Fortuna in Mandaue City,…

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