Night - Clear. Winds S at 7 mph (11.3 kph). The overnight low will be 51 °F (10.6 °C). Partly cloudy with a high of 78 °F (25.6 °C). Winds variable at 7 to 12 mph (11.3 to 19.3 kph). Mostly ...

Professor Sakurai Aiko of the Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies has a unique background, pursuing a career in international cooperation before expanding her research to include ...

Hyogo Gov. Motohiko Saito answers questions at a press conference in Kobe's Chuo Ward on March 27, 2025. (Mainichi/Satoshi Kubo) Hyogo Gov. Motohiko Saito does not seem to understand the reason ...

KOBE—A third-party investigative panel on March 19 concluded that Hyogo Governor Motohiko Saito committed power harassment on several occasions and violated the whistleblower protection law with ...

Hyogo Gov. Motohiko Saito apologized to prefectural government workers on Wednesday, after a third-party panel last week found that his prefecture's actions to identify a whistleblower accusing ...

Prosecutors on Wednesday indicted a 46-year-old man on charges of murder and attempted murder in connection with two separate knife attacks in Hyogo Prefecture that took place in 2006 and 2007 ...

Kobe, March 19 (Jiji Press)--A third-party panel said in a report Wednesday that the Hyogo prefectural government's actions to identify a whistleblower over power harassment allegations against ...

This was repeated about 30 times by Hyogo Governor Motohiko Saito during his news conference on March 26. He kept uttering the phrase upon rejecting the assessment of the prefecture’s third ...

Kenichi Okutani, right, head of the Hyogo Prefectural Assembly's special investigation committee, hands over the panel's final report to assembly speaker Tomoaki Hamada in Kobe's Chuo Ward on ...

A prefectural assembly panel in Hyogo, western Japan, has found some truth in allegations of power harassment conduct by Governor Saito Motohiko. The panel has been investigating a whistleblower ...