A driver’s license is no longer required for motorized kick scooters, although people under the age of 16 will be banned from riding them.
Suica and Pasmo have become an ubiquitous part of life and travel in Japan, but you can’t get a new card for either.
A Japanese court has said that a law requiring surgery to switch genders on a family registry is unconstitutional in a ruling on a case involving a transgender man in central Japan, according to his lawyers.
Japanese weather officials say the rainy season appears to have ended in three regions west of Tokyo.
OSAKA – An American man known for streaming provocative videos has been arrested on suspicion of breaking into a construction site in Osaka, police said Friday. Ramsey Khalid Ismael, 23, known as “Johnny Somali” on YouTube, was arrested with another American, Jeremiah Dwane Branch, 24, who says he is a university student,...
KYOTO -- A man accused of carrying out an arson attack on a Kyoto Animation studio in 2019 that claimed 36 lives admitted to charges of arson and murder as his lay judge trial opened in the Kyoto District Court on Sept. 5.
But that number might not tell the whole story of why so many were at a loss for words.
SAPPORO (Kyodo) -- A Sapporo doctor and his daughter were arrested Monday on suspicion of beheading a man and carrying his head out of a hotel in the
Police in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, said Sunday they have arrested a 68-year-old man on suspicion of stealing a taxi. According to police, the incident occurred at around 10:45 p.m. Saturday. Local media reported that the man got into the taxi and during the journey, started hitting the driver on the…
An eighth-century Japanese temple and UNESCO World Heritage site in Nara Prefecture, Toshodaiji Temple, had a building vandalized by a Canadian teen tourist who carved letters into a wooden pillar, according to local police
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Japan SDF member dead, 2 injured in Gifu shooting; suspect in custody
All traces of a massive pop star once dubbed the “Japanese Madonna” are being scrubbed from the internet, some five years after she retired from public life at the age of 40....
And if you’d rather have a 60,000-yen comb, this Asakusa shop has some of those too.
Buck-Tick vocalist Atsushi Sakurai died on Oct. 19 after he was rushed to the hospital following a brain hemorrhage
Employees got the weight of each Sumo wrestler from the Nihon Sumo Kyokai website and discovered that both JL659 and JL2465 on the 12th would be off weight and balance. [...]...
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan on Wednesday compiled a policy package to tackle hay fever caused by pollen from cedar and cypress trees, with plans to accelerate their reduction and replace them with varieties that produce less pollen.
NAGOYA -- Officials in this central Japan city say they want to change people's habits and mindset through a recently established ordinance banning pe
Japanese weather officials are warning that moist air is making atmospheric conditions in northern Japan extremely unstable and triggering heavy rain there.
Low birthrate and ageing population pose ‘an urgent risk to society’, but can opening its borders to skilled overseas workers fix the problem?
Life-threatening high temperatures were forecast across Japan on Thursday, and officials are urging steps to avoid heatstroke.
OTSU -- A former assistant nurse who was acquitted in a retrial after serving more than a decade in prison over the death of a patient was urged by a district court here not to wear an "Innocence Project" T-shirt during her subsequent damages suit, it has been learned.
The case is likely the first time an outing has been recognized as a work-related injury.
TOKYO — Three people were hurt in a knife attack on a train in western Japan on Sunday, with police saying they had arrested a man for allegedly carrying out the stabbings. The victims — a
Three schoolgirls drowned in a river in Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Friday while swimming on the first day of their summer vacation, local authorities said. The local sixth
