A scientific survey conducted by a Japanese government research team on Nishinoshima Island, a volcanic island in the Ogasawara Archipelago, reveals bird numbers have decreased while the habitat for insects has expanded.

Delivery giant Yamato Transport has replaced all delivery vans at its Kyoto branch with electric vehicles.

Japan Airlines has revealed the details of its new A350-1000 aircraft, which it calls its new flagship aircraft, to replace the current long-haul aircraft for the airline, the Airbus A350-1000. (livefromalounge.com)

Weather officials in Japan say average temperatures in September were the highest since recordkeeping began 125 years ago. (NHK)

People from around the world gathered in Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Sunday for a "soba" noodle eating contest. (NHK)

Japanese talent agency Johnny & Associates says it's dissolving to focus on compensating the victims of its late founder. (NHK)

Minimum wages are rising across Japan from the start of October amid rising prices, with a majority of prefectures implementing an increase on Sunday. (NHK)

Visitors to the western Japan island of Miyajima, home to the UNESCO World Heritage site of Itsukushima Shrine, must pay a tax to the city of Hatsukaichi, starting Sunday. (NHK)

Kawadoko dining is a unique Japanese dining experience that involves eating on a tatami mat next to or on top of a river in the summer months. (Japan by Food)

Construction of a new skyscraper, set to be Japan's tallest building with a height of about 390 meters, has begun near Tokyo Station, developer Mitsubishi Estate Co. said. (Kyodo)

In preparation for the opening of the Hokuriku Shinkansen Kanazawa-Tsuruga section next March, welcome ceremonies were held Sunday at various train stations along the route.

Japan has introduced a new invoice system designed to more accurately calculate the amount that businesses must pay in consumption tax under the country's dual tax rate structure. (NHK)

Two young boys were attacked and injured by a monkey in Kyushu on Saturday, with a security camera capturing the primate entering a house before biting a 5-year-old boy inside.

Nagoya City in central Japan is now requiring people to stop walking while riding an escalator in order to prevent accidents.

Major League Baseball says Ohtani Shohei of the Los Angeles Angels has the best-selling jersey in the league this season. (NHK)

Only a few women in Tokyo work as rickshaw runners. But thanks to postings on social media, more and more women are venturing into the traditional male-dominated profession. (DW)

In the last few years, China’s government has promoted increasingly conservative social values, encouraging women to focus on raising children. It has cracked down on civil society movements and made laws to drive out foreign influence. (Fortune)

Three individuals, including the president of a human resources dispatch company, have been arrested on suspicion of dispatching Cambodian trainee workers who had disappeared from their training sites at Japanese companies to a transportation company for employment.

Exile's Atsushi has come out on livestream telling how he was struck down by lyme disease, which is transmitted by the bite of an infected tick and can take 2-3 years to recover.

The Grand Prix winner of the '2023 Miss Japan Competition' held on Thursday is 25-year-old Ai Yoshida, a public servant working at the Health and Welfare Office of Saga Prefecture Government.

Tokyo police have served a fresh arrest warrant to a principal of a public junior high school on suspicion of sexually assaulting a student at his previous workplace. (NHK)

A 2019 survey found that Spain is one of the top three countries that Japanese people would like to visit in the future. (newsonjapan.com)

An animal keeper died apparently after being attacked by a lion at a zoo in northeastern Japan, police and the facility's operator said Thursday. (Kyodo)

Japan remain firmly in the hunt for a place in the quarter-finals after taking advantage of Ben Lam's red card and eventually seeing off a defiant Samoa side - sealing England’s passage into the knockout stages as pool winners in the process. (irishexaminer.com)

An international group of scientists say they have observed antimatter falling downwards under the Earth's gravity. (NHK)