A Japanese airline will allow passengers to bring their small dogs and cats on board all of its domestic flights beginning January in a bid to attract more customers, its website showed Saturday. (Kyodo)

The smallest of Japan’s four main islands, Shikoku, is best known for its pilgrimage trail of 88 Buddhist temples. Walkers from around the world come to hike the 1200-kilometre route, or parts of it – but not in the kind of numbers that hit the Camino de Santiago in Spain. (Sydney Morning Herald)

Joby Aviation, a company developing an all-electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft for commercial passenger service, has announced it has partnered with ANA Holdings and Nomura Real Estate Development, one of Japan’s largest real estate developers, on the development of take-off and landing infrastructure, known as vertiports, to support the commercialization of its electric air taxi service across Japan. (collisionrepairmag.com)

Forty-two days after walking away from the Wallabies, Eddie Jones has been chosen to return as head coach of Japan, according to multiple Japanese reports. (Sydney Morning Herald)

Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio plans to replace high-ranking administration officials in response to a growing money scandal involving the largest faction in his main ruling Liberal Democratic Party. (NHK)

Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Monday he planned to take “appropriate steps” over his governing party’s widening slush funds scandal as speculation is rife that he may purge implicated Cabinet members in a major shuffle this week. (AP)

A survey by Sumitomo Life on household chores and childcare revealed a significant discrepancy between men's and women's perceptions of their respective burdens. While men believe they are reasonably sharing the load, women feel a substantially heavier burden in comparison to men.

A passenger has been arrested on suspicion of verbally abusing a taxi driver for 30 minutes, punching him in the face, and breaking the taxi's window.

The variety of juicy grape that Yuki Nakamura is harvesting as the sun rises over his farm took scientists 33 years to develop and can sell for $100 a bunch in Tokyo department stores. (AFP)

If you are traveling in Tokyo, I also recommend this hotel. This time I visited Super Hotel premier Ikebukuro, which is a higher brand of Super Hotel, a hotel with a nationwide network in Japan. (At JAPAN)

In this video, we cover the Ninokuchi-mura scene from the domestic drama Koi no Tayori Yamato Ōrai ("A Love Letter From Yamato"), which premiered in the second lunar month of 1796 at the Kado no Shibai in Osaka. (Kabuki In-Depth)

Police have arrested a 74-year-old man following a gruesome attack on an elderly woman who suffered severe injuries with her left ear cut off and her right ear slashed.

Japan's Empress Masako turned 60 years old on Saturday. In a statement released by the Imperial Household Agency, the Empress said she would like to express her renewed and sincere gratitude to the people for their heartwarming feelings towards her. (NHK)

Recently, in Tokyo, Japan, one of the most interesting and largest robot exhibitions in the world, IREX 2023, took place at the Big Sight exhibition center. (Carros Show)

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and several key Cabinet ministers were grilled by opposition lawmakers in parliament on Friday over a widening fundraising scandal and an alleged connection to the Unification Church which threaten to further drag down the government's sagging popularity. (ABC News)

Indonesia says it plans to send 100,000 workers to Japan over the next five years, helping Tokyo ease a pressing labor shortage as the population of the world's No. 3 economy ages. (Nikkei)

The new firm established to manage Johnny & Associates Inc. performers unveiled its company name Friday as Starto Entertainment Inc., in a bid to start afresh following a sex abuse scandal involving the late founder of the former male talent agency. (Kyodo)

The number of digital subscriptions for the 'NIKKEI online edition' and the specialized media 'NIKKEI Prime' series offered by the Nihon Keizai Shimbun has exceeded one million.

As the spotlight intensifies on the illegal export of Lexus luxury cars, believed to be intended for use in North Korea, experts are pointing to the possibility of involvement by North Korean embassies overseas.

The operator of Tokyo Disneyland on Friday apologized after clips of Minnie Mouse having her skirt lifted by another character during a recent Christmas parade went viral on social media, with some harshly criticizing the gesture as sexual harassment. (Kyodo)

The best rally in a decade for Japanese stocks is being amplified by a surge in buyouts from company executives. (Japan Times)

The Bank of Japan's leaders are indicating they could be preparing a shift in policy, and that's encouraging traders to raise bets that the central bank will scrap the world’s last negative interest-rate regime as soon as this month. Bloomberg Economics' Taro Kimura shares his views on Bloomberg Television. (Bloomberg)

Social media platform X will start hiring engineers in Japan, chief executive Linda Yaccarino said in a post on Thursday. (Reuters)

A 27-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of throwing a bicycle onto railway tracks from a footbridge.

The Bank of Japan appears to be preparing for the end of its long-held negative interest rate policy, as Deputy Gov. Ryozo Himino and other policy board members signal increasing optimism on price and wage increases. (Nikkei)