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A tsunami advisory was issued for Iwate Prefecture on Sunday evening following a strong earthquake. The advisory was later called off, after waves measuring 20 centimeters were recorded in some areas.
JAPAN
Nov 9, 2025

Tsunami threat passes following magnitude 6.9 quake off Iwate

Waves reached 20 centimeters in some areas after the quake, which measured a 4 on Japan's seismic intensity scale.
Agriculture minister Norikazu Suzuki speaks during a meeting held at the ministry on Oct. 22 after the season's first bird flu outbreak was reported in Hokkaido.
JAPAN
Nov 9, 2025

Fourth avian flu outbreak this season confirmed in Niigata

This is the fourth outbreak of avian influenza at a poultry farm in Japan this season and the second confirmed case in Niigata.
Shoji Kurasaka, president of West Japan Railway, speaks at a news conference in Takarazuka, Hyogo Prefecture, on Saturday.
JAPAN
Nov 10, 2025

Facility to preserve crashed JR West train to be completed in December

The 2005 accident in Hyogo Prefecture left 106 passengers and the train driver dead and some 560 others injured.
Mika Yokota won Hiroshima Prefecture’s gubernatorial election on Sunday.
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 10, 2025

Hiroshima Prefecture elects its first female governor

Mika Yokota, a former deputy governor of Hiroshima Prefecture, defeated two contenders to win Sunday’s gubernatorial election.
Yuichiro Tamaki, leader of the Democratic Party for the People, attends an extraordinary session of the Lower House in Tokyo on Oct. 21.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Nov 10, 2025

DPP finds itself on the outside after failing to join ruling coalition

Yuichiro Tamaki’s indecisiveness is seen as having contributed to his party’s drop in popularity.
The benchmark Nikkei 225 index has climbed about 30% in dollar terms this year, far outpacing the S&P 500 index’s 14% gain.
BUSINESS / Markets
Nov 10, 2025

Goldman sees U.S. investors flocking to Japan as Nikkei surges

The inflow of U.S. funds reflects the strong performance of Japanese equities in dollar terms this year.
A sign-language lesson is held for staff involved in the upcoming Deaflympics events in Tokyo.
JAPAN
Nov 10, 2025

Tokyo government conducts sign language lessons ahead of Deaflympics

Some 3,000 athletes from over 70 countries and regions are slated to compete in the first Japan-held Deaflympics.
The Justice Ministry is assessing the impact of tougher penalties for the crime of insult.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 10, 2025

Japan assessing impact of tougher penalties for insults

The Justice Ministry is assessing through an expert panel the impact of tougher penalties for the crime of insult three years after their enforcement through a penal code revision.
New guidelines are addressing struggles by teachers to deal with the burden of parents who make irrational complaints that go beyond what is considered socially acceptable, often referred to as "monster parents," which is overwhelming their workload.
JAPAN / Society
Nov 10, 2025

Tokyo looks to keep ‘monster parents’ at bay with new protocols

Measures from limiting the duration of meetings to having a lawyer handle complaints aim to protect teachers from irrational requests and abusive behaviors.
Parma's Zion Suzuki gestures during his club's match against AS Roma in Rome on Oct. 29.
SOCCER
Nov 10, 2025

Japan goalkeeper Zion Suzuki pulls out of friendlies due to injury

Parma said the 23-year-old picked up the injury in its 2-2 draw with AC Milan on Saturday.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department headquarters. Police have rearrested a Tokyo couple on child abuse allegations.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 11, 2025

Mother and partner rearrested over alleged child abuse

The pair allegedly starved the woman’s daughter, causing her to become severely malnourished, police have said.
Researchers from the Institute of Science Tokyo and other institutions have developed an AI model that detects high diabetes risk using only electrocardiogram data.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Nov 11, 2025

Japan team builds AI model to identify diabetes risk from electrocardiogram data

The method, which does not require blood tests, could lead to early detection of the disease.
The travel services trade surplus rose to ¥3.31 trillion thanks to an increase in visitors to Japan.
BUSINESS / Economy
Nov 11, 2025

Japan's April-September current account surplus hits record high

The current account balance expanded mainly because the trade balance swung to a surplus following lower imports.
The government adopted a bill on Tuesday extending volunteer probation officers' terms from two to three years.
JAPAN
Nov 11, 2025

Japan to extend volunteer probation officers' terms to three years

The draft revision is aimed at helping secure people who will take on the role of watching over the rehabilitation of individuals who committed crimes or delinquent acts.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and Japan Innovation Party head Hirofumi Yoshimura in Tokyo on Oct. 21. An agreement between the two parties included a promise, at the JIP's insistence, to introduce legislation in the current parliamentary session that reduces the number of Lower House seats.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Nov 11, 2025

LDP-JIP coalition faces friction over parliamentary seat-reducing bill

Differences over the measure to reduce parliamentary seats could weaken the ruling minority coalition’s unity and test its ability to compromise.
The Kashiwazaki Kariwa nuclear power station in Niigata Prefecture
JAPAN
Nov 11, 2025

Niigata governor’s visit to nuclear reactor raises restart hopes

Hideyo Hanazumi is scheduled to visit Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Kashiwazaki Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant and an associated training facility on Friday.
Japan has been a tough market for the PlayStation platform over the past few generations, as Nintendo continues to dominate there.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 12, 2025

Sony emulates Nintendo with new, cheaper console only for Japan

A region-locked PlayStation 5 Digital Edition will cost ¥55,000, Sony announced via a live stream, significantly lower than the previous price of ¥72,980.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks during a session of the House of Councilors Budget Committee in parliament on Wednesday.
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 12, 2025

Japan to use extra budget to address bear attacks

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Wednesday that a proposed supplementary budget would include spending to help local governments address attacks by bears.
A group of researchers from Japanese universities as well as British and South Korean scientists has discovered a factory-like cellular system that prevents insulin abnormalities, potentially paving the way for new diabetes treatments.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Nov 12, 2025

'Factory' in cells found to prevent insulin abnormalities

The finding by a group of researchers from Japanese universities, as well as British and South Korean scientists, could help with the development of new diabetes treatments.
Liberal Democratic Party Secretary-General Shunichi Suzuki (second from left) speaks at a meeting of the party's political system reform headquarters in Tokyo on Wednesday.
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 12, 2025

LDP begins internal talks on Lower House seat reduction

The party agreed with its coalition partner to aim for enacting legislation to reduce Lower House seats during the ongoing extraordinary Diet session.
Before Japanese encroachments onto their native land, the Ainu people in what is present-day Hokkaido lived hunter-gatherer lifestyles supplemented by fishing.
JAPAN / History / The Living Past
Nov 15, 2025

Timeless tales throw the march of ‘progress’ into relief

Maybe the Ainu had it right after all? Maybe humankind should have remained in that state? What if we had?
A farmer harvests rice in a field in Chikusei, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Oct. 9. Prices will most likely remain in the ¥4,000 range for 5 kilograms of the grain at least until the 2026 harvest is released next summer.
JAPAN / Society / FOCUS
Nov 12, 2025

New Cabinet searches for effective rice policy amid resurging prices

Officials are considering the distribution of “rice tickets” to make the nation’s staple grain more affordable for certain households.
Toyota’s new battery manufacturing plant in Liberty, North Carolina, officially opened on Wednesday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 13, 2025

Toyota pledges up to $10 billion in U.S. operations investment

The announcement comes less than a month after U.S. President Donald Trump flagged that the Japanese carmaker planned such an investment.
A 43-year-old Tokyo Metropolitan Police inspector was arrested Wednesday for allegedly leaking investigative information to a group suspected of illegally brokering women to sex parlors and hostess bars across Japan.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 13, 2025

Police officer arrested for leaking information to illegal scout group

Daisuke Jinbo is suspected of providing the group with images showing the areas covered by cameras installed by the police.
Former health minister Norihisa Tamura (center right) of the Liberal Democratic Party and House of Representatives member Satoshi Uemura (center left) of the Japan Innovation Party attend discussions on social security reform on Wednesday at the Diet building.
JAPAN
Nov 13, 2025

LDP and JIP eye out-of-pocket price hike for OTC-like drugs

The parties are looking to increase patients’ costs for prescription medicines whose ingredients and effects are similar to those of over-the-counter drugs.
Mitsubishi UFJ Asset Management, a unit of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, aims to launch a new fund in January with a size of several billion yen.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 13, 2025

MUFG’s asset manager targets Japan buyers for its first CLO fund

The securities, which are bundled leveraged debt, will mainly hold dollar-denominated floating-rate loans made to U.S. companies.
Yoshinoya CEO Tetsuya Naruse says the firm's China business is now on track to report a record profit this year.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 13, 2025

Yoshinoya predicts record China profit on new recipes

The beef bowl chain redesigned menus, offering items with vegetable toppings and expanding combo sets, to enhance value without sacrificing margins.
A Saitama district court sentenced Deng Hongpeng, a Chinese national and demolition worker, to two years and six months in prison, suspended for four years, for hitting a group of elementary school children with his car and fleeing the scene while driving under the influence.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 13, 2025

Chinese national sentenced for hit-and-run that injured four children in Saitama

Demolition worker Deng Hongpeng was driving under the influence and struck a group of ten children, injuring four sixth-grade boys.
Niigata Gov. Hideyo Hanazumi speaks at a meeting of a local organization over operations of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant on Wednesday.
JAPAN
Nov 13, 2025

Niigata governor meets with local leaders over nuclear plant restart

In the meeting, the Kashiwazaki and Kariwa mayors expressed their willingness to accept the restart of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings’ nuclear power plant.
Namiko Takaba, her son Kohei Takaba, and husband Satoru Takaba
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 13, 2025

Husband of victim in 1999 Nagoya killing reflects on late wife’s life

Namiko Takaba was attacked while at home with her 2-year-old son, Kohei.
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.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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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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