Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward to Survey Vacant Apartments, Condos to Subsidize Renovation, Increase Reasonably Priced Rental Properties

Yomiuri Shimbun file photo The Chiyoda Ward Office The Yomiuri Shimbun 14:42 JST, November 3, 2025 Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward government has decided to conduct a survey on apartment and condominium vacancies in the ward next fiscal year. The ward plans...

Russia lodges protest with Japanese embassy

Official Moscow has strongly protested to the Japanese Embassy in Moscow regarding the "Joint Exercise 2025" exercises held near the Russian borders, APA's Moscow bureau reports, citing Russian Foreign Ministry. It was stated that Japan's...

Record-high cases of absenteeism, bullying at Japanese schools in FY 2024

School. (image Mainichi) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A record 353,970 students at elementary and junior high schools in Japan were absent for 30 days or more in fiscal 2024, up 2.2 percent from a year earlier and marking the 12th consecutive annual increase,...

FinCity.Tokyo Intensifies Global Outreach to Scale Fintech in Japan

FinCity.Tokyo, the financial promotion body for Tokyo, is intensifying its efforts to help fintech startups scale into the city’s rapidly growing financial ecosystem, leveraging a projected market growth to USD $30.2billion by 2033. The...

Japanese woman held for 1999 murder says she lived in constant fear of arrest

A 69-year-old woman arrested for a 1999 murder in Nagoya, central Japan, told investigators that she had long feared being caught and felt depressed each year as the anniversary of the killing approached, police said on Monday. Kumiko Yasufuku was...

Easy Japanese news in translation: Mount Fuji gets its first snowcap of the season

(Mainichi) On October 23, snow accumulated on 3,776-meter-high Mount Fuji. The Kofu Local Meteorological Office in Yamanashi Prefecture announced that this marked the first snowcap on the summit this season. This is 21 days later than usual and...

Veteran actor Lim Kay Tong reflects on acting and ageing as Singapore indie film makes its world premiere in Tokyo

And then, there is also the language of silence in the film, with the camera lingering patiently on Hock. “I like scenes without words,” Lim said. “It's just your body language and interior that's working. “There are things going on inside you...

Mitsubishi’s eK Space to come equipped with Yokohama BlueEarth-FE tires

Hiratsuka, Japan—The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd., announced that it has begun supplying its BluEarth-FE AE30 tires as original equipment (OE) to Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (hereafter, Mitsubishi Motors) for use on the automaker’s new...

Vincent van Gogh Family Brings the Artist's Legacy to Tokyo in a New Exhibition

An exhibition titled Van Gogh's Home: the Van Gogh Museum. The Painter's Legacy, the Family Collection, the Ongoing Story is being held at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum until December 21. It is a major exhibition on the work of the supremely...

Tokyo: Hailey Gates on Her Nuanced Satirization of the U.S. Military in Competition Film ‘Atropia’ 

Kicking off the year with a surprise Sundance win, Hailey Gates’ debut feature Atropia is now lined up in competition at Tokyo International Film Festival. Satirizing the military, the media and the movie business, the film veers from the surreal...

Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi seeks a summit with North Korea on return of abducted Japanese nationals

Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi sent a message to the North Korean government regarding her proposal to hold a summit, Kyodo News reported on Monday. Takaichi made the comments at an assembly concerning the return of Japanese nationals,...

Japanese mother killed, daughter injured by drunk driver

A Japanese tourist in her 50s was hit and killed on Sunday in Seoul by a car driven by a drunk driver. The incident occurred at around 10 p.m. in Jongno-gu near Dongdaemun Station. The suspect, a man in his 30s, hit the woman and her daughter as...

Toyota Wants To Make Japanese Cars Great Again With the Century

Lexus sits atop Toyota’s products in the U.S., but things are different in Japan. In 1967, it introduced a flagship model called the Century that was designed “to be like no other” and compete with the finest luxury cars from the likes of...

Popularity of New Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi Reaching Fever Pitch Among Residents in Her Home Turf of Nara Prefecture

The Yomiuri Shimbun Packaging of red and white manju sweet buns featuring a drawing of Takaichi and her Cabinet is seen in Nara City. The Yomiuri Shimbun 13:48 JST, November 3, 2025 The popularity of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is reaching fever...

Jeddah hosts fourth Japanese Speech Contest

Arab News JEDDAH: The Consulate General of Japan in Jeddah organized the fourth Japanese Speech Contest at the King Fahd Public Library, in cooperation with the Saudi Association of Japan Graduates and Associates, and the Japanese community in the...

ILLIT to sing opening song for Japanese animated series

Published: 03 Nov. 2025, 11:18 Girl group ILLIT [BELIFT LAB] Girl group ILLIT will sing the opening song for Japanese animation series "'Tis Time for Torture,' Princess," when the second season starts airing in January next year, according to the...

Chinese film 731’s historical hiccups eclipse anti-Japanese fears

A Chinese historical film about Japan’s wartime atrocities has drawn criticism not for its subject matter, but over what many viewers have described as a clumsy portrayal of one of the darkest chapters of World War II. 731 – a drama centred on the...

Japanese tourist killed by drunk driver in Seoul car accident

Published: 03 Nov. 2025, 08:59 A logo of police [YONHAP] A Japanese tourist was killed and another injured after being hit by a car driven by an intoxicated driver in Seoul, police said Monday. The Hyehwa Police Precinct in Seoul said it booked a...

Tokyo: Fan Bingbing on Rebounding From Her “Lowest Point,” the Grueling Preparation for ‘Mother Bhumi’ and Working in China Again

Returning to Tokyo International Film Festival 15 years after she won best actress for Buddha Mountain in 2010, Chinese superstar Fan Bingbing is winning plaudits for her distinctly unglamorous turn in competition entry Mother Bhumi. Borderline...

Japanese Companies Tell OpenAI to Stop Infringing On Its IP

The Content Overseas Distribution Association (CODA), which represents several major Japanese entertainment companies such as TV studio Toei and game developer Square Enix, recently sent a written request calling on OpenAI to end its unauthorized...