George is excited to visit Japan for the winter snow festival! (Curious George Official)

Mr Kishida has announced a major plan to stem the country's falling birth rate. (CNA / NHK)

A Nagasaki prefectural government official was arrested Tuesday after paper cranes symbolizing peace were found burned at a Nagasaki park commemorating the victims of the atomic bombing of the southwestern Japan city in 1945. (Kyodo)

Police in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, say a 26-year-old man who was arrested after robbing a watch store in Kawasaki on Sunday said he applied for the job on a social networking site. (Japan Today)

Toyota plans to make an all solid-state battery as part of its ambitious plans for battery electric vehicles, the company said Tuesday, amid mounting criticism Japan’s top automaker needs to do more to fight climate change. (AP)

オンラインカジノ企業は、1990年代後半にインターネットの普及と共に誕生しました。当初は、多くの人々がオンラインカジノに対して躊躇していましたが、徐々にその信頼性が高まり、人々はオンラインカジノに興味を持つようになりました。 (newsonjapan.com)

Sam Altman, CEO of ChatGPT operator OpenAI, told Japanese students on Monday that artificial intelligence technology will evolve further. (The Japan News)

Japanese electronics maker Hitachi says it has taken a leap forward in the race to develop next-generation quantum computers. (NHK)

Japanese messaging app operator Line will withdraw from the online brokerage business that it ran as a joint venture with securities giant Nomura Holdings, the companies announced on Monday, as they battle a low profitability outlook stemming from intense competition. (Nikkei)

Japan's more powerful lower house passed a contentious bill on Tuesday to promote understanding of sexual minorities, paving the way for enacting the legislation by the end of the current parliamentary session through next week. (Kyodo)

Japan's benchmark Nikkei gauge surged on Tuesday, closing over 30,000 for the first time in 33 years, led by technology shares on expectations of a flood of investment in chip-related companies. (marketscreener.com)

A suspicious package that prompted the cancellation of a hearing for the man accused of murdering former Japanese Prime Minister (PM) Shinzo Abe contained only a petition, and no explosives, local media said on Tuesday. (themalaysianreserve.com)

The image of "Female Samurai" has risen a lot over the years but were there really female warriors in premodern Japan or is this just a romanticism of the times? The answer is a bit more complicated. (The Shogunate)

Yokohama is the second largest city in Japan but it's often overlooked by tourists from downtown Tokyo. (King Kogi)

Footage of an attempted robbery of a watch shop in Kawasaki City on Sunday shows one of two men being pinned to the ground after they broke into the store, with a crowbar, before being chased out empty-handed by the manager, TV Asahi reports. (NOJ)

An increasing number of Japanese scholars are filling research posts at universities and laboratories in China. In the past, China had mainly welcomed engineers from Japanese companies, but it is now looking to attract academics in astronomy and other basic fields of science. (Nikkei)

Escape to a seaside paradise that’s home to one of Japan’s most famous fish markets. (Japan by Food)

In "Catching a pervert", the BBC Eye team exposes the men running an online business of sexual assault targeting women across East Asia. (BBC)

Former Liberal Democratic Party kingmaker Mikio Aoki died Sunday. He was 89. (Japan Times)

The court cancelled the pre-trial hearing of the man, who faces an accusation of murdering Japan's former prime minister Shinzo Abe, on Monday after it received a suspicious object, local media reported. (WION)

Occupancy rates at hotels and other accommodations have been making a steady recovery, reaching 55.6% in April according to preliminary Tourism Agency statistics, which marks more than a four-fold increase from the lowest point of the coronavirus pandemic. (The Japan News)

Japan's gross domestic product grew at an annualized 0.7% pace in April, compared with the previous month, on a seasonally adjusted basis, led by strong exports, expanding for the first time since February, according to estimates by the Japan Center for Economic Research. (Nikkei)

Japanese transport authorities have decided to ease rules on allowing taxis and chartered buses to carry cargo and passengers at the same time. (NHK)

Seventeen-year-old Japanese tennis player Oda Tokito has won the French Open men's wheelchair singles title, becoming the youngest winner of a Grand Slam tournament in the category. (NHK)

Japan is dying out. Also this is how Japan treat pregnant women. (Asagi's Life (No BS Japan))