Kumamoto City-born Shimada Yoko is best known in the west as Mariko from the 1980 mini-series Shogun. The lady-in-waiting role created an interest in Japan and its culture overseas and introduced ...

The central Japanese prefecture of Shizuoka, which has a trail to Mount Fuji, has enacted an ordinance amid risky behavior by some climbers. The new ordinance requires each hiker to pay an ...

The truck driver was uninjured. Hirosue sustained minor injuries and was brought to the hospital in Shimada, Shizuoka Prefecture. There, she allegedly kicked a female nurse multiple times and ...

SHIMADA, Shizuoka — A long-standing tradition celebrating the region’s famed tea harvest took place in mid-April as the Kanaya tea festival showcasing a tea-picking women’s group dance drew crowds to ...

The truck driver was not injured. The actress, who suffered minor injuries in the collision, was taken to a hospital in Shimada, Shizuoka. She allegedly kicked a 37-year-old nurse multiple times ...

Actress Hirosue Ryoko was released from police detention on April 16, eight days after being arrested for allegedly assaulting and injuring a hospital nurse in Shizuoka Prefecture ... a nurse at a ...

Hirosue, 44, allegedly kicked a female nurse multiple times and scratched her arm at the hospital in Shimada, Shizuoka Prefecture, past midnight, according to the police. They have not revealed ...

Hirosue, 44, allegedly kicked a female nurse multiple times and scratched her arm at the hospital in Shimada, Shizuoka Prefecture, past midnight, according to the police. They have not revealed ...

The 44-year-old allegedly kicked a 37-year-old nurse and scratched her arm at a hospital in Shimada, Shizuoka prefecture, at about 12.20am on April 8, said the police. They added that Hirosue was ...

Hirosue, 44, allegedly kicked a nurse and scratched her arm at a hospital in Shimada, Shizuoka prefecture, past midnight Monday, police said, adding she was taken there after her car rear-ended a ...

According to The Japan News, Shizuoka prefectural police announced that a woman was arrested on suspicion of inflicting injury on a nurse at a hospital in Shimada in the prefecture. The woman ...

The map below shows the location of Shizuoka and Tokyo. The blue line represents the straight line joining these two place. The distance shown is the straight line or the air travel distance between ...