Japan plans to require day nurseries, kindergartens and schools to use a government system to confirm that those applying to work there are not convicted sex offenders, sources close to the matter said Monday. (Kyodo)

Prices for new condominiums in the greater Tokyo area jumped more than 50 percent in July from a year earlier. (NHK)

This time, we would like to introduce the newly opened food stall "MentaiChudoku" in Nagahama, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka City. This is a new stall that just opened in 2023. (Japanese Kitchen Tour)

A 50-year-old Tokyo man has been arrested after he coerced a teen-age driver into sex as "payback" after she damaged his bicycle in a collision.

Today's interview is about Japanese elders, and how they feel about foreigners living in Japan. (TAKASHii from Japan)

Idol performer Nagisa Fujisaki has revealed on nationwide TV that she is the single mother of two young children.

There is a simple tradition at airports in Japan you’ll struggle to spot in Australia or possibly anywhere else in the world. (news.com.au)

Competition is heating up in the Japanese market for remote control claw machine games after playing the popular arcade game on smartphones quickly caught on during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Kyodo)

Japanese Street Food at Fish Market and Public Market in Okinawa Japan. This is a street food tour of Makishi Public Market, also known as Okinawa’s kitchen. (Paolo fromTOKYO)

Amid record-setting temperatures in Japan, local businesses have been developing wearable technology to help people stay cool. (South China Morning Post)

Japan suffered a trade deficit last month as exports sank for the first time in more than two years, dragged down by a slowdown overseas. (AP)

The yen plunged to levels that prompted Japan to intervene in the currency market last year. The yen's decline is due to the U.S.-Japan interest-rate divergence. The Japanese currency dropped to 145.93 per dollar, a level at which officials had intervened in September last year. (WION)

Sayuri Shirai, economics professor at Keio University in Tokyo, discusses Japan's trade data for July. (CNBC International TV)

Tropical storm Lan dumped torrential rain on the Chugoku and Kansai regions, western Japan. More details are emerging about the extent of the damage, including Tottori City, where authorities issued a heavy rain emergency warning. (NHK)

Their interest piqued during COVID-19 lockdowns and by a new Netflix drama, a fresh rush of foreign tourists are flocking to Japan for a look inside the insular world of sumo. (taipeitimes.com)

Honda Motor plans to ferry wealthy foreign tourists to less-traveled parts of Japan using the automaker's HondaJet business aircraft starting next year, Nikkei has learned. (Nikkei)

Japan marked the 78th anniversary of its surrender in World War II on Tuesday (Aug 15). For the first-time since the global pandemic, a full-scale national war memorial service was held in Tokyo to honour those who died in the war. CNA's Michiyo Ishida reports. (CNA)

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida visited the University of Tokyo during his summer break to attend a lecture on generated AI programming.

In Japan, an aging population has created a massive labor crunch in the country. Japan Inc., though, has found a solution in the problem itself: Hire older workers. (qz.com)

Many Japanese people moved to the Philippines before World War II and engaged in activities such as hemp cultivation. At its peak, there were 30,000 Japanese immigrants. Many of them married local Filipino women, formed families, and established communities in various regions.

A 31-year-old mother has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after allegedly stabbing her 2-year-old daughter multiple times in the chest with a knife at their home in Saitama City.

The number of jobs in the tourism industry is on the rise amidst the bustling summer vacation season.

Police have arrested a male driver on suspicion of attempted murder after driving his car into a pedestrian zone of a summer festival in Shizuoka City on Friday evening, injuring three people.

Mourners have gathered to remember the victims of Japan's deadliest ever plane crash. Thirty-eight years ago to the day on Saturday, 520 passengers and crews were killed when a Japan Airlines jumbo jet crashed into a mountain ridge in Gunma Prefecture, north of Tokyo. (NHK)

Hollywood blockbuster "Barbie" hit theatres in Japan on Friday, where "Barbenheimer" memes linking the doll-themed film with the atomic bomb caused a stir and made distributor Warner Bros (WBD.O) apologise ahead of the release. (Reuters)