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Masaki Kashiwara, a specially appointed professor at Kyoto University's Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, won this year's Abel Prize.
JAPAN
Mar 27, 2025

Masaki Kashiwara wins Abel Prize for mathematicians

Kashiwara "has proven astonishing theorems with methods no one had imagined," the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters said.
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and others attend a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday at the Prime Minister's Office.
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 27, 2025

Opposition urges LDP to reinvestigate ties with Unification Church

The move comes following a court order to strip the group of its religious corporation status.
A wildfire in the city of Okayama on Wednesday evening
JAPAN
Mar 27, 2025

Over 900 hectares destroyed in Ehime and Okayama wildfires

In the Ehime city of Imabari, 417 hectares had been burned as of Wednesday, while the fire in the city of Okayama had swept through some 559 hectares.
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks during a meeting of the Upper House Budget Committee on Thursday.
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 27, 2025

Ishiba’s remarks on inflation relief measures draw ire as budget deadline looms

Confusing messages about an economic package to counter rising prices came as negotiations were heating up on when to hold a vote on the budget.
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba plans to set up an expert panel as early as April to reflect on lessons learned from Japan's defeat in World War II.
JAPAN / History
Mar 27, 2025

Ishiba eyes expert panel to reflect on lessons learned from WWII

The prime minister is unlikely to release a government-adopted statement to mark the 80th anniversary this year of Japan's surrender in the war.
An election poster board in Tokyo in June displays candidates for last year's Tokyo gubernatorial election.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Mar 28, 2025

Efforts to curb election chaos face uphill battle

A bill on campaign poster decency has been enacted after inappropriate posters were seen in Tokyo last year.
Increasing rice production for exports would help enhance supply flexibility as rice could be diverted for domestic consumption in case of a shortage.
BUSINESS
Mar 28, 2025

Japan advised to boost rice exports to 353,000 tons in 2030

Increasing rice production for exports would help expand supply flexibility as rice could be diverted for domestic consumption in case of a shortage.
Three Japanese banks are teaming up to combat the enduring challenge of a dwindling population.
JAPAN
Mar 28, 2025

Three Japanese banks form alliance to fight population slump

Shizuoka Bank, Hachijuni Bank and Yamanashi Chuo Bank will work together to draw outside talent and funding into central Japan.
The packaging materials that Chateraise refused to receive from its subcontractor on Thursday in Tokyo
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 28, 2025

Japan FTC warns Chateraise over subcontract law breaches

The regulatory watchdog also urged the company, based in Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture, to take action to prevent a recurrence of such a problem.
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba in the Upper House of the Diet on Friday. The clock is ticking for Ishiba's administration to get the budget for fiscal 2025 passed in parliament.
JAPAN / Politics / EXPLAINER
Mar 28, 2025

Is it a big problem if the budget fails to clear parliament by the end of March?

Government functions won't be significantly hindered, but the Ishiba administration's reputation will take another beating.
How Fuji TV responds to the results of a third-party probe will be crucial to restoring public trust — and could determine whether sponsors, whose TV ads are the company's main source of revenue, choose to return.
JAPAN
Mar 28, 2025

Fuji TV returns to spotlight as deadline for scandal probe looms

How Fuji TV responds to the report will be crucial to restoring public trust — and could determine whether sponsors choose to return.
"The most desirable decision is for companies' securities reports to be accessible to the public at least three weeks before the general meetings," financial services minister Katsunobu Kato said on Friday.
BUSINESS
Mar 28, 2025

Japan seeking securities disclosures before shareholders' meetings

The government will make the request in response to criticism from overseas investors that they do not have enough access to information ahead of the meetings.
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. said fees for average households that use 260 kilowatt-hours of power per month will increase by ¥436 from March to ¥9,031 next month.
JAPAN
Mar 29, 2025

Japan household electricity bills to rise in April

Fees for the average household will go up by between ¥385 and ¥465 in April, due mainly to the end of government subsidies to curb inflation.
Masahide Takano, Chief Researcher of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), points to a plan to use americium in small batteries for space probes at the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology on Friday.
JAPAN
Mar 29, 2025

JAEA developing space probe battery fueled by radioactive waste

The battery is expected to be used in probes that operate in places where solar power generation is not possible.
Yoshiharu Kanai speaks during an interview in Fuchu, Hiroshima Prefecture, on March 6.
JAPAN
Mar 30, 2025

Son of soldier killed on Iwo Jima continues collecting remains

Yoshiharu Kanai, 80, has been working to collect remains for over 20 years, wishing to return them to mainland Japan swiftly.
Shinmoedake, a volcano located between Miyazaki and Kagoshima prefectures, in November 2019
JAPAN
Mar 30, 2025

Alert raised for volcano in southwestern Japan

The agency warned that large volcanic rocks could reach areas within 4 kilometers of the crater of the volcano, which is located between Miyazaki and Kagoshima prefectures.
Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya (second from right) addresses a meeting of the International Group of Eminent Persons for a World without Nuclear Weapons (IGEP) in Tokyo on Sunday.
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 30, 2025

Experts start talks on proposals for NPT review conference

Participants include experts from nuclear powers such as the United States, China and Russia, as well as from non-nuclear states.
The cherry blossoms at Inokashira Park in Tokyo on Thursday
JAPAN
Mar 30, 2025

Cherry blossoms come into full bloom in Tokyo

On Sunday, monitored sample cherry trees reached full bloom also in the cities of Wakayama and Matsuyama, both western Japan.
Professional cleaner Hirofumi Sakurai takes a moment to appreciate some photographs in a Gotanda apartment whose occupant died alone.
LIFE / Lifestyle / Longform
Mar 31, 2025

The last cleanup: Life and death in a lonely Japan

A growing industry quietly erases the final traces of those who die alone, exposing deep societal fractures.
Ryuji Matsumoto pats one of the sheep at his farm in the town of Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture.
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Fukushima
Apr 14, 2025

The man behind Fukushima town's 'Strawberry Sheep'

Ryuji Matsumoto, 54, incorporates dried strawberries into the feed for his sheep, which gives their meat a certain sweetness.
Chip startup Rapidus is set to receive as much as ¥802.5 billion in additional subsidies from the government.
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 31, 2025

Japan earmarks another ¥802.5 billion for chip startup Rapidus

Rapidus is on track to get a pilot line online in April, executives said last week.
Many families with financial difficulties are cutting down on their living expenses to secure money to buy school uniforms, computers and tablet devices for their children entering school.
JAPAN / Society
Mar 31, 2025

Needy parents eye living expense cuts to fund kids' new school life

They are finding it especially difficult to secure money to buy school uniforms, computers and tablet devices, a survey shows.
Residents participate in an evacuation drill held with West Japan Railway in Shirahama, Wakayama Prefecture, in January 2024 to prepare for a Nankai Trough earthquake and a possible tsunami following the quake.
JAPAN
Mar 31, 2025

Nankai Trough earthquake could kill 298,000 people, government says

A tsunami of over 20 meters would likely be observed in a total of 23 municipalities in Tokyo and seven other prefectures.
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba enters his office in Tokyo on Friday.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Mar 31, 2025

Who among the opposition would join the ruling coalition?

Concerns over the stability of the LDP-Komeito minority government are fueling talk of a possible new arrangement, and maybe even a new prime minister.
Executives at the Special Committee on Political Reform of the House of Representatives meet in parliament on Monday.
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 31, 2025

Diet panel forgoes Monday vote on political donation bills

The main opposition CDP opposed the vote, arguing that the committee should wait until Komeito and the DPP submit their own bill.
Prices of over 4,000 food and beverage products, including the Asahi Super Dry beer, will increase in April.
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 31, 2025

Prices for 4,225 food and drink products set to rise in Japan

The price increases in April reflect rising wages and logistics costs being increasingly passed on to consumers, research firm Teikoku Databank says.
High school student Soa Ono, 17, assists an elderly woman during a recreational activity at a nursing care facility in Nagoya in late February.
JAPAN / Society / Regional voices: Chubu
Apr 7, 2025

Caregiver apprenticeship for high school students expanding in Aichi

The program allows apprentices to earn an income while acquiring knowledge and skills through hands-on experience.
The so-called baby hatch, open 24 hours a day, is meant to be an "emergency, last-resort measure" to save babies' lives, Hitoshi Kato (center), head of Sanikukai Hospital, told a news conference Monday in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward.
JAPAN
Mar 31, 2025

Tokyo hospital opens city's first 'baby hatch'

Used for centuries globally, so-called baby boxes or baby hatches are meant to prevent child abandonment or abuse.
Metropolitan Police Department Superintendent-General Yuji Sakoda delivers a speech at the inauguration of a section specializing in the investigaton of lone offender terrorism on Tuesday in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Apr 1, 2025

Tokyo police launch section for lone-offender terrorism

The move followed a series of attacks in recent years, including the fatal shooting of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2022.
A new law in Japan will prohibit IT giants from blocking the entry of other companies into the market or giving preferential treatment to their own services.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 1, 2025

Japan's FTC to regulate Google and Apple under new smartphone law

The law will prohibit IT giants from blocking the entry of other firms into the market.
From France to Mali, a deportee's struggle far from home
Moussa Sacko, a Malian deported from France — where he had lived since he was a young child — stands on a street in Bamako, Mali, in December. Compared with his home in France, Bamako feels like a different planet, Sacko said.
Descendants in Philippines denied Japanese citizenship
China warns of military response if Japan intervenes in Taiwan contingency
Representatives from the Japan Innovation Party hand over a proposal to designate Xue Jian, the Chinese consul-general in Osaka, as persona no grata, to a staff of the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Wednesday.
As attacks surge, who can cull bears in Japan?
Police cars leave the Akita Prefectural Police headquarters to cull bears, in the city of Akita on Thursday.
Japan may triple departure tax to tackle overtourism
A plane takes off from Haneda Airport.
Japan fully enters sports streaming era as fans face new dilemmas
Sports fan Tadashi Yokoyama streams basketball and fencing on three screens.
Tatsuya Nakadai: A masterful leading man and postwar icon
Tatsuya Nakadai had the look of a leading man in his youth, but his large and searching eyes suggested the pain and loneliness of an old soul.
As Japan’s female leader rises, can she cross sumo’s sacred line?
Japan Sumo Association Chairman Hakkaku (front center) delivers a speech on the first day of the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament at the Fukuoka Kokusai Center on Sunday. Centuries of belief and tradition still underpin the all-male association's stance of excluding women.
Takaichi doesn’t mince words on Taiwan, but dramatic policy shift unlikely
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi responds to questions during a House of Representatives Budget Committee session in parliament on Tuesday.
Florist Nicolai Bergmann flourishes outside the box
Florist Nicolai Bergmann shops for fresh flowers at the Ota flower market in Tokyo on Friday.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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An illustration features the Japanese signs for "ganbare" (good luck) and the Deaflympics, which will be held between Nov. 15 and 26.
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