Close aides to SaitamaGovernor Motohiro Ono were surprised by the apparent turnaround in his thinking about the Kurdish community in the prefecture ... In 2019, he was elected Saitama governor.
... in a five-vehicle collision involving a large truck and several passenger cars on an expressway in SaitamaPrefecture, north of Tokyo, local media reported.
Investigators believe he broke into his former workplace after forming an intent to kill despite holding no grudge against the two residents he allegedly killed ... .
TSURUGASHIMA, SaitamaPrefecture—A usually quiet community here is reeling in shock after two elderly women were stabbed to death at a nursing home and a former care worker was taken into custody. Saitama prefectural police on Oct.