• Lesson 7 : Not so Golden Week

      Expressways and train stations across the country have struggled to cope with a Golden Week exodus

    • Lesson 6 Suicide Forest

      Yamanashi Prefecture has had the worst suicide rate in Japan for the past five years, according to the National Police Agency.

    • Lesson 5

      A group of bears escaped from their enclosure at a park in northern Japan and mauled two women to death.

    • Lesson 4

      The minivan involved in a fatal accident in Kyoto’s Gion district was videotaped passing other vehicles.