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 ...

KOBE—All blocs in the Hyogo prefectural assembly will call for Governor Motohiko Saito to resign mainly over his handling of a whistleblower’s accusations of power harassment and corruption.

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HYOGO (TR) – A member of a criminal syndicate is among five persons in custody in connection with the death of a man whose corpse was moved within Kobe City after his death earlier this year, reports ...

The Hyogo Prefectural Assembly approved by majority vote the investigation report by its Article 100 Committee at Wednesday’s plenary session, stating that “certain facts have been confirmed” in the ...