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Masahisa Takemi, a 50-year-old teacher at the Central School for the Deaf, played an instrumental role in the development of the "starting light" and the adoption of the device at sporting events.
JAPAN / Society
Nov 19, 2025
‘Starting light’ developer voices hopes for Deaflympics
Masahisa Takemi pursued a solution that could even the odds after seeing a deaf student of his struggle in track events in which a starting pistol is used.
Police officers examine a poster, marked with a large “X,” at a building where a woman was stabbed in Tokyo’s Minato Ward on Sunday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 18, 2025
Akasaka stabbing suspect carried out attack in under 30 seconds, police say
Footage captured near the commercial building’s entrance shows a man, believed to be the attacker, entering directly after the woman, then leaving about 30 seconds later.
Ramen is a versatile global dish, ranging from traditional tonkotsu broth to innovative mazemen and whole-grain noodles, enjoyed for its endless variations and worldwide appeal.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 17, 2025
How Japanese does that bowl of ramen need to be?
Ramen purist argue about what’s orthodox and what’s allowable, while cooks who love to experiment and improvise push those boundaries.
Metropolitan Police Department investigators examine a poster put up at a building where a woman was stabbed, in the capital’s Minato Ward on Sunday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 17, 2025
Suspect on run after stabbing woman in Tokyo’s Akasaka area
The victim, a woman in her 40s, was stabbed in her side and her left hand while in the basement of a building in the busy Akasaka area, according to police.
Located near the Imperial Palace, the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan prides itself on the accessibility of its events and the support it offers to budding and established journalists. The club is currently headed by Dan Sloan, a former reporter for Reuters.
COMMUNITY / Issues / The Foreign Element
Nov 17, 2025
Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan celebrates 80 years at the forefront of press freedom
Since its founding in 1945, the club has been an important professional hub and played host to a startling array of political and cultural figures from around the world.
Footage of sea lion hunting on Takeshima filmed in 1934, shown at a commemorative ceremony on Friday marking the opening of a new facility at the National Museum of Territory and Sovereignty in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward
JAPAN
Nov 16, 2025
New facility opens at Japan's territory museum
The 300-square-meter facility, called gateway hall, also has a library housing related books.
Hirohide Mori (left), head of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutor's Office's public security division, and Tetsuro Kamata, deputy superintendent-general of Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Department, bow toward former Ohkawara Kakohki executive Junji Shimada (second from right) and company President Masaaki Okawara in June in Yokohama.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 16, 2025
Ohkawara Kakohki seeks audit on Tokyo investigator liability
The audit will be conducted within 60 days. If the company disagrees with the outcome, it may file a resident lawsuit.
The opening ceremony for the Tokyo 2025 Deaflympics was held Saturday in the capital, with Japan hosting the quadrennial international sporting event for people with hearing difficulties for the first time.
MORE SPORTS
Nov 16, 2025
Tokyo Deaflympics kick off as Japan hosts games for first time
A record 3,081 athletes from 81 countries and regions were registered, including Russias and Belarusians competing as neutral athletes.
An illustration features the Japanese signs for "ganbare" (good luck) and the Deaflympics, which will be held between Nov. 15 and 26.
SPORTS / Longform
Nov 15, 2025
A century of Deaf sport finds its moment in Tokyo
As Tokyo hosts the Deaflympics, organizers hope to further gains made in the realm of greater inclusivity throughout Japan.
Risa Matsuda, 27, a staffer at Muscle Girls, flexes while doing a pole dance for customers.
LIFE / Lifestyle
Nov 14, 2025
Tokyo's viral Muscle Girls bar flexes a brawny sort of beauty
Staff at the viral nightlife spot say embracing a new beauty standard helps them shed societal expectations on femininity.
PokePark Kanto, the first permanent outdoor attraction in the franchise, will open Feb. 5 in the Tokyo suburb of Tama Hills.
LIFE / Travel
Nov 13, 2025
PokePark Kanto set for February opening in Tokyo suburb
Tickets for the new Pokemon-themed area of the Yomiuriland amusement park will be offered via a lottery from Nov. 21.
The Japan Innovation Party has long sought to get Osaka designated as Japan's backup capital.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Nov 13, 2025
What would a ‘backup capital’ look like for Japan?
The concept faces tough questions on its substance and whether its true purpose is to realize the Japan Innovation Party's goal of making its Osaka base the natural choice.
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.
Six firms are suspected of rigging bids for construction work ordered by Tokyo’s transportation bureau to maintain railroad tracks.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 11, 2025
Tokyo transportation bureau and six firms inspected over alleged bid-rigging
The firms are suspected of rigging bids for construction work ordered by the bureau to maintain railroad tracks.
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.
Florist Nicolai Bergmann shops for fresh flowers at the Ota flower market in Tokyo on Friday.
LIFE / Style & Design
Nov 11, 2025
Florist Nicolai Bergmann flourishes outside the box
“The flower business, as I see it, has no limits,” says the Danish florist famous for creating the “flower box” 25 years ago.
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.
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.
Tokyo has a gross domestic product of $2.55 trillion, just ahead of New York’s $2.49 trillion and Greater Los Angeles’ $1.62 trillion, according to CEOWorld’s global wealth index.
BUSINESS / Economy
Nov 10, 2025
Tokyo ranked world’s richest city by GDP, with Osaka-Kobe also rated highly
The Japanese capital excelled thanks to its "operational excellence, technological sophistication, and disciplined economic governance,” according to a recent report.
On Oct. 29, teams from 33 qualifying countries scoured the streets of Shibuya for all manners of trash as part of the Spogomi litter-picking competition.
LIFE / Lifestyle
Nov 9, 2025
Cleanliness gets competitive at Tokyo’s Spogomi world cup
On Oct. 29, teams from 33 countries scoured Tokyo’s streets for discarded wrappers, crushed cans and cigarette butts.
Japanese court orders Cloudflare to pay ¥500 million over manga piracy
Cloudflare has been ordered to pay ¥500 million after four major publishing firms accused the firm of copyright infringement for its role in hosting sites that distribute pirated copies of manga titles.
The reality of human trafficking in Japan
A view of Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward at night. Last year in Japan, 66 people were put in protective custody as victims of human trafficking. Among them, 58 — including all 41 minors — were Japanese nationals. International pressure to act on human trafficking led Japan to make efforts to crack down on the crime, such as a tightening of conditions in 2005 for entertainer visas.
Beware of China’s strategic distortion of reality
China holds a military parade to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, in Beijing on Sept. 3. 
Yen rout brings talk of ¥160 to the dollar and possible intervention
The yen has been weak against the U.S. dollar in recent weeks, with some analysts expecting the retreat to continue.
China to reimpose ban on Japanese seafood imports amid row over Taiwan, reports say
A sign reading, "Suspend the sales of all fish products imported from Japan" is displayed in an area home to Japanese restaurants in Beijing in August 2023. China will reimpose a ban on imports of Japanese seafood, media reports in Tokyo said Wednesday, as a diplomatic spat between the two countries deepens.
First foreign president of Hosei University looks abroad for change
Hosei University President Diana Khor, who herself was an international student, aims to encourage students to look outward and cultivate a global mindset.
Japanese companies advised to change mindset about investment in Africa
Bernard Laurendeau, chief of Enkopa Lab Japan, in Tokyo last month
Munetaka Murakami headlines quartet looking to move to MLB via posting system
The Swallows' Munetaka Murakami has 246 career home runs in eight NPB seasons.
The reality of human trafficking in Japan
A view of Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward at night. Last year in Japan, 66 people were put in protective custody as victims of human trafficking. Among them, 58 — including all 41 minors — were Japanese nationals. International pressure to act on human trafficking led Japan to make efforts to crack down on the crime, such as a tightening of conditions in 2005 for entertainer visas.
Why we can’t get enough of the sham of the rental family
“Rental Family,” directed and co-written by the single-named Hikari, follows out-of-work actor Phillip (Brendan Fraser), who is hired as the “token white guy” at a Tokyo agency called Rental Family.

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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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