Naoto Yamamoto, an instructor at the Saitama Prefectural Police Academy, was intoxicated at the time of his arrest, reports NHK (Jan. 6). At around 12:30 a.m. on January 6, Yamamoto is suspected of ...

SAITAMA—Japan’s first ordinance obliging people ... ascending escalator to change from the Tobu Line to the JR lines at Omiya Station from 7:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. were walking on it.

Major lines operated by East Japan Railway ... substation in Saitama Prefecture, the company said. By 3 p.m., all of the lines, except the Keihin-Tohoku Line between Akabane and Omiya stations ...