CHUBU A fisheries cooperative in Isshiki, Aichi Prefecture sold tons of imported eels mislabeled as domestic, the agriculture and fisheries ministry said Tuesday. [ASAHI]

CHUBU A man was arrested Tuesday for posting a message on a police Web site threatening to stab someone at a railway station near an airport in Aichi Prefecture, police said. [MAINICHI]

CHUBU A man who threatened on the 2-Channel online bulletin board to unleash an attack to “kill 100 people” on the streets of Tokyo’s Ikebukuro district was arrested Monday, police said. [MAINICHI]

CHUBU Ex-yakuza Hisato Obayashi told the opening day of his trial at the Nagoya District Court on Monday that he was not guilty of the most serious charges he is accused of, including one of murdering the first Special Assault Team member to die in the line of duty in Japanese history. [MAINICHI]

CHUBU About 100 guns believed to have belonged to the former Imperial Japanese Army have been unearthed at a Nagoya construction site, police said. [MAINICHI]

CHUBU An unemployed man wanted in connection with the theft of about 200 million yen worth of gold bars from a museum in Takayama last year has been arrested in Takayama, Gifu Prefecture, police said. [MAINICHI]

CHUBU A 24-year-old man was arrested Saturday morning after slashing a woman with a utility knife in a shopping center in Fukui, Fukui Prefecture, police said. [KYODO]

CHUBU An explosion that occurred at an ironworks factory in Tokai, Aichi Prefecture on Thursday afternoon left three workers injured, one of them seriously, police and firefighters said. [MAINICHI]

CHUBU An Air Self-Defense Force F-15 jet fighter aborted its landing Tuesday evening at Komatsu airport in Ishikawa Prefecture after a Japan Airlines plane crossed the runway only 20 to 30 minutes before its landing, airport officials said. [KYODO]

CHUBU The Obama municipal government in Fukui Prefecture has received a letter from U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama, the municipal government announced Tuesday. [YOMIURI]

CHUBU A Toyama man who was acquitted of rape in a retrial last year after being jailed for some 1,000 days is set to file a suit against the government for 12.5 million yen in damages, his lawyers said. [MAINICHI]

CHUBU The city government in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture has started a brouhaha with other municipalities by demanding payments to clean up a bankrupt, overflowing garbage disposal site that is apparently leaking toxic substances. [ASAHI]

CHUBU Feelings of sadness and anger remained among bereaved relatives of a 17-year-old sumo wrestler after his former sumo stablemaster and three other wrestlers were arrested Thursday on suspicion of beating him to death. [MAINICHI]

CHUBU U.S. presidential hopeful Barack Obama is getting some unexpected but enthusiastic support from people in a coastal city in central Japan named — Obama. [KYODO]

CHUBU Seven snowboarders who went missing in Aki-Ota, Hiroshima Prefecture on Sunday were rescued Tuesday morning after spending two freezing nights in an abandoned mountain shack and using words of encouragement and snacks to survive. [ASAHI]

CHUBU A female university student who had been in a coma after being hit by an avalanche at a ski field in Nagano Prefecture died on Monday morning, while another female student remains in a coma, police said. [MAINICHI]

CHUBU The Meteorological Agency’s state-of-the-art earthquake early warning system failed to predict the latest big quake that hit Ishikawa Prefecture early Saturday morning. [MAINICHI]

CHUBU An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.6 rocked the Noto area in Ishikawa Prefecture on the Sea of Japan coast early Saturday, the Japan Meteorological Agency reported. [KYODO]

CHUBU A police inspector took an 8.5 million yen loan with no collateral or interest from an adult entertainment industry-related worker who was the subject of a prefectural police investigation, it has been learned. [MAINICHI]

CHUBU A starving homeless woman died after an ambulance dropped her off at city hall Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture and she was left lying down outside, unable to open emergency food that she had been given. (1) [MAINICHI]