Mountain rescue scenes in Nagano become a huge hit on YouTube
November 7, 2025 NEW
Poor parents forced to choose either cars or welfare benefits
November 7, 2025 NEW
Police units sent to Akita, Iwate get OK to shoot bears with rifles
November 6, 2025
SDF trains near Taiwan to warn China how it can respond to crisis
November 6, 2025
Tokyo police suspect human trafficking of Thai girl, 12
November 6, 2025
Miyagi governor’s fact-check plan sparks debate
November 6, 2025

Japan deploys SDF troops to stop deadly bear attacks in Akita
November 5, 2025

Putin presents Medal of Pushkin to Japanese actress Kurihara
November 5, 2025

Still not at the ‘starting point’: 10 years of LGBT partner systems
November 5, 2025

Ishin co-leader criticized for posting business card of reporter
November 5, 2025

Deportations double under ‘zero illegal residents’ plan
November 5, 2025

Ibaraki’s fees for ambulance rides in ‘minor’ cases cause a stir
November 5, 2025

'Kokuho' director Lee Sang-il gets Kurosawa honor at Tokyo festival
November 4, 2025

Sadaharu Oh among 8 chosen for Order of Culture award
November 4, 2025

Suspect in 1999 stabbing death voices sympathy for the victim
November 4, 2025

TSMC plant in Kumamoto spurs demand for Japanese lessons
November 4, 2025

Four national universities to hike tuition from next April
November 4, 2025

This man’s dreams take flight, one paper plane at a time
November 4, 2025

JSA vague on plan if Takaichi wants to break ban, enter dohyo
November 3, 2025

Japan’s National Stadium to get name under deal with megabank
November 3, 2025

Giant mural at Hiroshima Airport screams ‘no more nukes’
November 2, 2025
Revelers crowd Tokyo’s Shibuya, Shinjuku on a rainy Halloween
November 1, 2025

Aichi police arrest suspect in slashing death of woman in 1999
November 1, 2025

Japan team gets male sturgeon to switch sex, make roe for caviar
November 1, 2025

FSA punishes embattled credit union over pay to dodgy groups
October 31, 2025

RansomHouse group claims responsibility for attack on Askul
October 31, 2025

Shibuya’s Hachiko statue blocked off for third Halloween
October 31, 2025

Riot police given OK to use rifles to take down dangerous bears
October 31, 2025

Record-high absenteeism in schools offset by slowed growth
October 30, 2025

Cabinet-level meeting called to devise ways to halt bear attacks
October 30, 2025