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Tokyo- A 26-year-old man was arrested Tuesday morning after fatally stabbing 15 people and wounding 45 others at a facility for people with disabilities in Kanagawa Prefecture, NHK reported. The knife-wielding man carried out the attack at Tsukui Yamayuri- en, a facility for the disabled in Sagamihara, shortly after 2:30 a.m. Tuesday, local police were quoted as saying. Kanagawa police said they arrested a man identified as Satoshi Uematsu, 26, when he turned himself in at the Tsukui Police Station at around 3 a.m. and owned up to the attack. He is reportedly being held on initial suspicion of attempted murder. The suspect said he used to work at the facility, the police said. The number of casualties could rise, as Kyodo News reported 19 people were confirmed as having no signs of life, quoting local firefighters. Other media reports said at least 15 were killed and four others are showing no signs of life, while 24 others were wounded, including 20 in serious condition. The motive fo...

TOKYO — Sometimes, even when we love a place with every fibre of our being, we just can’t stay forever. Family anxiously awaiting our return; work commitments; financial constraints and more mean that, at some point or other, many of us have to wave goodbye to Japan and return to our respective homelands. Some of the things people miss about Japan will be immediately obvious, but others tend to sink in only a few weeks or months after returning home. Today, we’re taking a look at 21 of the little things, in no particular order, that Japan does so uniquely or so incredibly well that foreigners really start to pine for them once they finally say sayonara and head home. Pooling the responses from my fellow RocketNews24 writers and talking with a number of people who have recently moved back to their homeland after living in Japan for anything from six months to more than a decade, I came up with this list of things that people really start to miss after heading home. Make the most of thes...

Situated in Japan’s north island of Hokkaido, the Kami-Shirataki train station has only two trains that stop by every day on a special timetable. It all started three years ago, when Japan Railways decided to shut down it's services in the remote location, as ridership had dramatically fallen. That is until they noticed a young girl still using it to get to school. When the company learned of their only passenger, they decided to keep the station running until she graduates. They even went the extra mile and re-scheduled the train's timetable according to the girl’s schedule, according to CCTV News. Since then, the train stops once to pick up the girl and only a second time to drop her off after school. The station is set to close March 2016 when the girl finally graduates. When news broke of the Japanese government's efforts for this young girl, people have been all praise. “ According to CITYLAB, Japan faces a number of crises, with record-low birthrates, aging population...

TOKYO —  Although Japan is not without its faults, it is nevertheless an incredibly efficient and easy-to-live-in country, and we’ve discovered that there are numerous things that the Japanese get not just right, but awesomely right. Here are 10 things Japan gets awesomely right 1. Vending machines If you’re looking for something to quench your thirst – whether hot or cold –  you rarely have to go more than a few hundred meters in any direction in the city. Canned (black, white, extra milk, iced, low sugar, no sugar, extra sugar, fat-reducing) coffee, tea, green tea, barley tea, sports drinks, hot chocolate, soda, beer, fruit juice, raspberry jelly, even bread and stew; if it can be packed into a can you can find it in a Japanese vending machine somewhere, and it’ll usually cost you no more than 120 yen for a big can of the stuff. Many vending machines in Japan even give customers additional incentives to use them, with LCD panels displaying a row of numbers after each purchas...