• Emperor Emeritus Akihito hospitalized to adjust his heart medication
    Tuesday, July 15, 2025 from Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion - National
    Emperor Emeritus Akihito, 91, was hospitalized Monday to adjust his heart medication, palace officials said. Akihito was diagnosed in May with myocardial ischemia, an asymptomatic heart condition of reduced…
  • Japan warns of China's military moves as biggest strategic challenge
    Tuesday, July 15, 2025 from Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion - National
    Japan raised strong caution against China’s rapid acceleration of military activity in extensive areas from its southwestern coasts to the Pacific, describing the moves as the biggest strategic…
  • Quakes persist in Japan's southwest islands, delay evacuees' return
    Tuesday, July 15, 2025 from Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion - National
    Earthquakes continue to rattle small islands in southwestern Japan, with the number of "felt quakes" detected in the area exceeding 2,000 since June 21, the weather agency said…
  • 2 dead, 12 injured after bus-truck head-on collision in Tokushima
    Tuesday, July 15, 2025 from Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion - National
    Two people were killed and 12 others injured Monday in an accident involving a head-on collision between a bus and a truck on a highway in Tokushima Prefecture,…
  • Japan's World Barber Classic tries to bring back business
    Tuesday, July 15, 2025 from Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion - National
    Hundreds of rowdy spectators, many heavily tattooed, roared Monday at a Tokyo arena usually reserved for boxing -- except the contestants were not athletes, but barbers. A dozen…
  • Typhoon heading to Tokyo region; landslide warning issued
    Tuesday, July 15, 2025 from Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion - National
    Typhoon Nari moved northward along Japan's eastern coast near Tokyo and the northeastern region of Tohoku on Monday, with the weather agency urging vigilance against strong winds, high…
  • Osaka expo welcomes 10 millionth visitor at halfway stage
    Monday, July 14, 2025 from Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion - National
    The number of visitors to the World Exposition in Osaka has topped 10 million, reaching the milestone at the halfway point of the six-month event, the Japanese expo…
  • Diving instructor dies in sea off Wakayama coast
    Monday, July 14, 2025 from Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion - National
    A 39-year-old man, who was a diving instructor, died after getting into difficulties in the sea in Tanabe Bay in Wakayama Prefecture, on Sunday. According to police, Yuki…
  • Matchmaking agency in Japan offers safe space for LGBT community
    Monday, July 14, 2025 from Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion - National
    A matchmaking service focused on the western Japan LGBT community has proved a success since its launch some three years ago, providing peace of mind for people who…
  • Emperor, empress describe trip to Mongolia as 'truly memorable'
    Monday, July 14, 2025 from Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion - National
    Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako on Sunday described their visit to Mongolia as "truly memorable" as they concluded a trip aimed at affirming the two nations' enduring friendship…
  • Hokkaido's 1st bear warning issued in town after fatal attack
    Sunday, July 13, 2025 from Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion - National
    Hokkaido on Saturday issued a strong warning of brown bears across one of its towns following a fatal attack on a newspaper deliveryman there, making it the first…
  • Osaka expo moves into full gear to fight heat exhaustion
    Sunday, July 13, 2025 from Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion - National
    As the mercury soars in Japan, the World Exposition in Osaka has moved into full gear to beat the summer heat, with firms showcasing their latest cooling technologies…
  • 'Forever chemicals' found in organs of vulnerable Japanese wildcats
    Saturday, July 12, 2025 from Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion - National
    High concentrations of potentially carcinogenic PFAS "forever chemicals" have been found in Tsushima leopard cats -- a designated natural monument and vulnerable species native to a Japanese island…
  • Chinese fighter jet flies within 70 meters of SDF plane: Japan gov't
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion - National
    A Chinese fighter jet flew close to a Japan Air Self-Defense Force aircraft over international waters in the East China Sea, Japan's government said Thursday, in a move…
  • Japan to make foreign driver's license conversion tests tougher
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion - National
    Japan plans to make foreign driver's license conversion tests more stringent by significantly increasing the number of questions, police said. With more foreign drivers on the road, and…
  • Trump says Canada’s role in U.S. fentanyl crisis justifies 35% tariffs on Canadian goods
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion
    President Donald Trump said in a Thursday letter that he will raise taxes on imported goods from Canada to 35%, deepening a rift between two North American countries…
  • Global Citizen takes its fight against poverty to the world's growing cities
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion
    Global Citizen is turning to cities as it looks to break through what it sees as widespread political gridlock hindering large-scale action on its goal of ending extreme…
  • Final 3 Mount Fuji trails open; ¥4,000 fee charged for all climbers
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion - National
    The climbing season on Mount Fuji began in full on Thursday as all three trails on the Shizuoka Prefecture side were opened, with all local authorities charging an…
  • Japan weather bureau says 40% chance of La Nina in autumn
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion - National
    Japan's weather bureau said on Thursday that normal weather patterns are continuing and that there was a 40% chance of the La Nina phenomenon emerging in the Northern…
  • George Harrison's Beatles-era photos to be released in new book
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion
    A book of Beatles -era photographs taken by George Harrison, many of them never published, will be released next year. Random House announced Thursday that “The Third Eye,”…
  • Jane Birkin’s original Hermès bag sells to Japanese bidder at auction for whopping 8.6 million euros
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion
    Sketched out on an air sickness bag, the first Birkin handbag — the prototype for fashion's must-have accessory — sold for a staggering 8.6 million euros ($10.1 million),…
  • TikTok faces fresh European privacy investigation over China data transfers
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion
    TikTok is facing a fresh European Union privacy investigation into user data sent to China, regulators said Thursday. The Data Protection Commission opened the inquiry as a follow…
  • EU unveils recommendations to rein in powerful AI models
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion
    The EU unveiled on Thursday long-delayed recommendations to rein in the most advanced AI models such as OpenAI's ChatGPT and help companies comply with the bloc's sweeping new…
  • Fly-half Edwards to make first start for Wales against Japan
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion
    Fly-half Dan Edwards will make his first start for Wales after interim head coach Matt Sherratt named his team Thursday for the second test against Japan in Kobe…
  • Duplantis unfazed by lateness of world championships in Tokyo
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion
    Pole vaulter Armand 'Mondo' Duplantis insisted on Thursday he was unfazed by the lateness of the world championships in Tokyo, the September 13-21 event bringing the curtain down…
  • Djokovic cancels his Wimbledon practice session ahead of semifinal match against Sinner
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion
    Novak Djokovic canceled his afternoon practice session at Wimbledon on Thursday, a day after the seven-time champion had a “nasty” fall moments before clinching his quarterfinal victory. The…
  • Tour de France: Healy wins hilly 6th stage, Van der Poel takes yellow jersey from Pogacar
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion
    Irish rider Ben Healy won a hilly sixth stage of the Tour de France after a long solo breakaway on Thursday and Mathieu van der Poel took back…
  • Swiatek swats Bencic aside to reach Wimbledon final against Anisimova
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion
    Iga Swiatek breezed into her first Wimbledon final on Thursday but hopes of a dream match-up with Aryna Sabalenka were dashed when the top seed was stunned by…
  • Malaysia's former leader Mahathir Mohamad turns 100 without slowing down
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion
    Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad marked a historic milestone as he turned 100 on Thursday, calling the moment “quite frightening” without showing signs of slowing down. A…
  • Many Liberians take offense after Trump praises their leader's English
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion
    U.S. President Donald Trump’s praise of the “beautiful” English of Liberia’s President Joseph Boakai drew confusion Thursday in the English-speaking African country and umbrage over what many considered…
  • Thousands of first responders search for Texas survivors against long odds
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion
    Thousands of first responders were still combing through piles of mud-covered debris in Texas Hill Country on Thursday, hoping against long odds to find survivors six days after…
  • Rescuers save four more survivors from Houthi-struck ship in Red Sea; 10 still missing
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion
    Rescuers pulled three more crew members and a security guard alive from the Red Sea on Thursday, maritime security sources said, a day after Houthi militants sank the…
  • Rubio says Asia might get 'better' tariffs than others
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion
    U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Thursday that Asian nations might get "better" tariff rates than the rest of the world, as he attended ASEAN talks focused…
  • New Hampshire judge pauses Trump’s birthright citizenship order nationwide via class action lawsuit
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion
    A federal judge in New Hampshire issued a ruling Thursday prohibiting President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship from taking effect anywhere in the U.S. Judge Joseph…
  • Brazil vows retaliatory tariffs against U.S. if Trump follows through on 50% import taxes
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion
    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said Thursday that he will impose retaliatory tariffs on the United States if President Donald Trump follows through on a pledge…
  • Israeli strike kills 16 near Gaza clinic with no immediate truce in sight
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion
    An Israeli airstrike hit Palestinians near a medical centre in Gaza on Thursday, killing 10 children and six adults, local health authorities said, as ceasefire talks dragged on…
  • Russia bombards Kyiv before 'frank' talks with U.S. and aid pledges
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion
    Russia unleashed heavy airstrikes on Ukraine on Thursday before a conference in Rome at which Kyiv won billions of dollars in aid pledges, and U.S.-Russian talks at which…
  • Snap, crackle, sale: Nutella maker Ferrero plans to buy WK Kellogg for $3 billion
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion
    Italian confectioner Ferrero, known for brands like Nutella and Kinder, is buying the century-old U.S. cereal company WK Kellogg in an effort to expand its North American sales.…
  • Fuji Media to implement steps to curb activist shareholder influence
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion
    Fuji Media Holdings Inc on Thursday said that it will implement measures to prevent activist shareholders from gaining control of the company. The announcement of the anti-takeover steps…
  • Japan, U.S., Philippines reaffirm importance of navigation freedom
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion
    The foreign ministers of Japan, the United States and the Philippines on Thursday reaffirmed the importance of freedom of navigation as they discussed the situation in the East…
  • Korean guard of honor
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion
    General Yoshihide Yoshida, center, Chief of Staff, Joint Staff of Japan and Admiral Kim Myung-soo, right, chairman of the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff, inspect a guard…
  • Japan starts deploying Ospreys at new base to beef up southwest defense
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion - National
    The Japanese army on Wednesday began deploying its fleet of V-22 Ospreys on a newly opened permanent base in southwestern Japan, in the country’s latest move to strengthen its defense as…
  • Heat, high prices to keep more summer holidaymakers indoors: survey
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion - National
    More summer holidaymakers in Japan are expected to stay indoors and avoid activities such as camping, barbecues and visits to theme parks amid record heat since June and…
  • Japan's sticky problem with Trump, tariffs and rice
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion
    Donald Trump's insistence that "spoiled" Japan imports more U.S. rice is adding to Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's problems ahead of elections that could sink his premiership after less…
  • 'Monster' Inoue to defend titles against Akhmadaliev
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion
    Japan's undisputed super-bantamweight world champion Naoya Inoue announced Thursday that he will defend his titles against Uzbekistan's Murodjon Akhmadaliev in Nagoya in September. The unbeaten Inoue stopped American…
  • Tokyo railway service disrupted after train hits man; 6 injured
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion - National
    A man was hit by a train at a station near Tokyo's Haneda airport on Wednesday night, leaving him, the driver and four passengers injured and disrupting the…
  • Japan's whooping cough cases hit new weekly high at over 3,300
    Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion - National
    Whooping cough continued its surge in Japan, reaching a new weekly record of 3,353 cases, the highest since the current survey method was employed in 2018, a national…
  • 2 Americans hike Mount Fuji before trails open; both need rescues on back-to-back days
    Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion - National
    July 4 is just another day in Japan, but as an American living in the country, I usually try to do something fun to celebrate my home country’s…
  • In Hiroshima, search for remains keeps war alive for lone volunteer
    Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion - National
    Dozens of times a year, Rebun Kayo takes a ferry to a small island across from the port of Hiroshima in search of the remains of those killed…
  • Emperor meets with Mongolian president to boost democratic ties in authoritarian region
    Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion - National
    Japan’s Emperor Naruhito met with Mongolia's president Tuesday during a visit to the landlocked Asian nation that marks a step toward closer relations between the democracies in a…
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