A prominent scholar who blasted a package of security bills as unconstitutional in a high-profile Diet session will run in the Upper House election, targeting swing voters disillusioned with the status quo.
Forty-five plaintiffs, including fishermen who say they were exposed to radiation from U.S. hydrogen bomb tests near Bikini Atoll decades ago, are suing the Japanese government over the alleged cover-up of their suspected exposure.
Classes resumed at 62 elementary and junior high schools in Kumamoto Prefecture on May 9, bringing a sense of normalcy to young lives in the quake-battered southern prefecture.
The impact of the magnitude-7.3 temblor that hit Kumamoto Prefecture on April 16 was compounded by a small earthquake that struck shortly after in neighboring Oita Prefecture, seismologists say.
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