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The seventh H3 rocket carrying the newly developed HTV-X1 resupply vehicle is launched from the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture on Sunday.
JAPAN
Oct 26, 2025

JAXA launches new HTV-X1 cargo spacecraft to International Space Station

The craft’s journey to the ISS will be the first time in five years that Japan has sent supplies to the station.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi delivers her policy speech at a Lower House plenary session on Friday.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 26, 2025

Concern raised over proposed cut in Lower House seats

JIP is calling for a cut of about 50 proportional representation seats in the all-important lower chamber of parliament.
A Nishiyama Seimen employee works at its factory in Sapporo.
BUSINESS / Companies / FOCUS
Oct 26, 2025

Japanese firms keep expanding in Germany's North Rhine-Westphalia

Around 650 Japanese companies maintain a presence in the area, with the latest arrivals varying from tech startups to noodle makers.
Tigers starter Shoki Murakami pitches against the Hawks during Game 1 of the Japan Series in Fukuoka on Saturday. Murakami pitched seven innings, allowing just one run and six hits.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 26, 2025

Tigers pitcher Shoki Murakami perseveres in Fukuoka, turning rocky start into ‘amazing’ outing

Murakami did not have his best stuff and found it hard to get into a rhythm early, but he stuck to his guns and bounced back.
Industry minister Ryosei Akazawa visits the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture on Saturday.
JAPAN
Oct 26, 2025

Akazawa implores Tepco to pursue 'coexistence' with Fukushima community

Tepco announced in July that the full-scale removal of nuclear fuel debris will not start before fiscal year 2037.
A building housing the health ministry in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward
JAPAN / Science & Health
Oct 26, 2025

Japan to promote use of follow-on biologics

The ministry aims to introduce new measures in fiscal 2026 as a way to curb the country's ballooning medical costs.
Komeito Secretary-General Makoto Nishida speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Oct. 14. He recently said that his party may give its backing to candidates of the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan in future parliamentary elections.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 27, 2025

Komeito executive says party may support CDP candidates

The comments follow Komeito's departure from the ruling coalition with the Liberal Democratic Party earlier this month, partly due to discord over regulating political donations.
Yoshihiro Murai, 65, celebrates his victory in the Miyagi gubernatorial election on Sunday night.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 27, 2025

Yoshihiro Murai clinches sixth term as Miyagi governor

Murai had the backing of prefectural assembly members of the Liberal Democratic Party, Japan Innovation Party and Komeito.
Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama speaks at a news conference in Tokyo last week.
BUSINESS / Economy / FOCUS
Oct 27, 2025

Japan’s first female finance chief is a veteran on banking policy

Satsuki Katayama joined the Finance Ministry in 1982 and reached a higher position in the influential Budget Bureau than any woman before her.
Members of hibakusha groups collect signatures for the abolition of nuclear weapons at Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima.
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Hiroshima
Nov 10, 2025

A year after Hidankyo’s Nobel win, A-bomb survivors pin hopes on youth

While support for nuclear-weapons abolitionist groups is increasing, the average age of hibakusha has exceeded 86.
The Nara District Court has scheduled 19 days for the trial of Tetsuya Yamagami before it hands down a ruling on Jan. 21 next year.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 27, 2025

Three years later, trial begins for man accused of ex-PM Abe’s assassination

The delay was due to pretrial proceedings and a lengthy psychiatric evaluation for Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, to determine his fitness to stand trial.
A bear spotted in Kuzumaki, Iwate Prefecture, earlier this month.
JAPAN
Oct 27, 2025

Akita to seek SDF deployment over bear attacks

More than 100 people across the country have been killed or injured by bears in the current fiscal year.
Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Takayuki Kobayashi answers questions during the LDP presidential election candidates' joint news conference at party headquarters in Tokyo on Sept. 23.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 27, 2025

LDP policy chief ramps up moves to ease rules on exporting lethal defense gear

The LDP's Takayuki Kobayashi said that he intends to push for relaxing the regulations in order to “contribute to world peace” and strengthen Japan’s defense industry.
Sanseito leader Sohei Kamiya (center right) and others submit a bill to revise the Penal Code to House of Councilors Secretary-General Fumitake Kobayashi (center left) at parliament on Monday.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 28, 2025

Sanseito submits bill to punish desecrating the Japanese flag

While damaging or defacing a foreign national flag with the intent to insult can result in imprisonment or a fine, there is no similar provision for the Japanese flag.
Care worker and bodybuilder Hokuto Tatsumi helps a woman train at a care home for people with disabilities operated by Visionary in Aichi prefecture.
LIFE / Lifestyle
Oct 28, 2025

Bodybuilders find new calling in Japan’s struggling care industry

A Nagoya firm is tackling Japan’s caregiver shortage by recruiting bodybuilders — offering gym perks, protein subsidies and purpose.
Liberal Democratic Party President Sanae Takaichi (right) and Japan Innovation Party leader Hirofumi Yoshimura pose for a picture after signing an agreement to form a coalition, at the National Diet Building in Tokyo on Oct 20.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Oct 28, 2025

Smaller parties set to suffer most if LDP and JIP reduce Lower House seats

Smaller parties such as Komeito could lose out the most if a bill is passed to reduce Lower House seats by 10%.
Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi speaks at a news conference at the ministry on Tuesday.
JAPAN
Oct 28, 2025

Akita governor asks for SDF help amid 'dire' bear attacks

Bears have killed a record 10 people in Japan so far this year, a government official confirmed.
The most common factor behind work-related mental health issues in Japan is “relationships with people,” a government white paper on death by overwork found.
JAPAN / Society
Oct 28, 2025

Record number of applicants seek compensation for job-related mental stress

Despite efforts to reduce overtime hours and workplace harassment in Japan, a white paper released Tuesday shows the problems remain persistent.
Scientists use a raft inside the Super-Kamiokande neutrino detector located about 1 kilometer under Mount Ikeno near the city of Hida, Gifu Prefecture, in this undated image obtained on Wednesday
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 28, 2025

Researchers in U.S. and Japan offer insight into ghostly neutrinos

The new study is providing insight into the difference in mass between neutrino types, a key unanswered question.
Liam Gallagher commanded the stage with effortless charisma during Oasis' Tokyo Dome set on Saturday.
CULTURE / Music
Oct 30, 2025

Oasis returns to Japan after 16 years — and fans can still sing every word

The British rockers' Tokyo Dome set included such favorites as "Wonderwall," "Live Forever" and "Champagne Supernova."
The Tokyo headquarters of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, also known as the Unification Church
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 29, 2025

Hearings on Unification Church dissolution order to end in November

The church had allegedly inspired the fatal shooting of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe three years ago.
Participants march through Tokyo for the Tokyo Rainbow Pride parade in April last year.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal / FOCUS
Oct 29, 2025

Gender identity law reform stalls despite court rulings

Strong opposition from conservatives in parliament have dimmed prospects for reform.
One month after the cyberattack, Asahi Group Holdings faces an inevitable hit to profits, while competitors scramble to meet rising demand for substitutes.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 29, 2025

A month after Asahi cyberattack, Japan's beverage industry still high and dry

Asahi’s output remains well below pre-incident levels and competitors are also feeling the strain as they scramble to meet surging demand for substitutes.
Ikken Yamamoto plays a shell-shocked Self-Defense Force veteran whose past comes back to haunt him in “Flames of a Flower.”
CULTURE / Film
Oct 29, 2025

‘Flames of a Flower’: A bold interrogation of Japan’s pacifist identity

Oudai Kojima’s PTSD drama turned politically charged thriller takes aim at Japan’s postwar contradictions.
Liberal Democratic Party policy chief Takayuki Kobayashi speaks to reporters at the party's headquarters in Tokyo on Wednesday.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 29, 2025

LDP and JIP to set up joint policy conference

The LDP aims to make it clear that JIP is responsible for running the government as a member of the ruling coalition even though it has no Cabinet posts.
SoftBank shortstop Imamiya (right) celebrates after making a catch off Hanshin's Sakamoto's hit in the sixth inning at Koshien Stadium on Tuesday.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 29, 2025

Imamiya's spectacular Game 3 catch may live on in SoftBank lore

​The veteran shortstop said the key to his performance is preparation, especially when it comes to playing on a surface as unfamiliar as Koshien Stadium’s all-dirt infield.
Lawyer Hidetoshi Masunaga (front, left) and others seeking the invalidation of the July Upper House election walk to the Nagoya High Court's Kanazawa branch on Oct. 1.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 29, 2025

Court finds July poll was held in an unconstitutional state

A group of lawyers sought the invalidation of the Upper House election.
According to the education ministry, an increase in nonattendance at elementary and junior high schools may have reflected, in part, widespread views on the need for children to take time off.
JAPAN
Oct 29, 2025

Elementary and junior high schools see record nonattendance figure

The figure of 353,970, in an education ministry survey, marked the 12th straight year of increase.
Despite responders to a Japan Press Research Institute survey ranking newspapers as among the most trustworthy sources, readership was in decline.
JAPAN
Oct 30, 2025

Online news increasingly consumed despite being viewed with skepticism

While online news was the most accessed news source, in terms of trustworthiness, it trails behind traditional media sources.
China warns citizens not to visit Japan as row over Taiwan heats up
Chinese tourists wear kimonos as they visit Sensoji temple in Tokyo's Asakusa district on Saturday.
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.
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.
At Ginza’s newest hotel, luxury is a private treasure
At Fufu Tokyo, each guest room comes with its own private "onsen" (hot spring) — a luxury nearly unheard of in the heart of Tokyo's capital.
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.
Stablecoins: Boring goes big, and now in Japan
Noritaka Okabe, CEO of JPYC, acknowledges a number of potential risks related to stablecoins.
Shohei Ohtani collects fourth MVP Award with 2025 NL honor
The Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani was named National League MVP for the second straight season on Thursday.
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.
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.

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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.
A century of Deaf sport finds its moment in Tokyo
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