The yen may fall through the more-than three-decade low it reached last year amid Japan’s widening monetary policy divergence with the US, according to Eisuke Sakakibara. (Bloomberg)

David Celdran visits Tokyo to experience time in ways that the Japanese of the Edo period practiced it. (ANC 24/7)

Japan’s criticism of what it called China’s dangerous behavior in the South China Sea. (ANC)

Research into new applications for seaweed is flourishing. From carbon absorption to reducing methane emissions from cattle, countries are looking to Asia's savvy use of seaweed to develop their industries back home. (WION)

NATO and Japan have concluded negotiations over a new cooperation document and are preparing to announce the pillars at the Vilnius Summit next week, Nikkei Asia has learned. (Nikkei)

Fuji News Network is reporting that changes are afoot in South Korean culinary culture with a ban on eating dog meat apparently imminent.

SoftBank Group and Foxconn are among those to invest $170 million in a Japanese startup that makes shelf-stocking robots for convenience stores as the retail industry looks to catch up in automation and labor-saving efforts. (Nikkei)

An undisclosed number of male high school students from Kumamoto Prefecture have been punished for using their smartphones to take video footage of female classmates in an outdoor bath on a school field trip last summer.

Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten Group says its securities subsidiary has applied to be listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. It's the company's latest move to bolster its overall financial health and offset losses from its struggling mobile phone business. (NHK)

A new coaster at Fuji-Q Highland in Yamanashi Prefecture has been unveiled to the press for the first time.

Japan's government has posted a budget surplus of 2.6 trillion yen, or about 18 billion dollars, for the previous fiscal year. That is the second largest figure on record. (NHK)

Japan's tallest skyscraper, towering at a height of 330 meters, was completed at the heart of Tokyo, Mori Building Co. said Monday, beating the previous title holder by 30 meters. (Kyodo)

Discover the spirit of Yamagata and its seasonal cuisine in the heart of Tokyo! (Japan by Food)

Four people have been injured after an explosion rocked a busy district in Central Tokyo. It happened Monday afternoon near Shimbashi station. (NHK)

A UN watchdog has said that Japan's plan to release waste water from the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea complies with international standards. (BBC)

Police in Tokyo have arrested a 22-year-old unemployed man on suspicion of robbing a jewelry accessory store with two accomplices in April. (Japan Today)

The head of Komeito, the junior coalition partner of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, said Sunday the government should not start the release into the sea of treated radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant during the swimming season amid concerns over the safety of the plan. (Kyodo)

Japanese business sentiment improved in the second quarter as raw material costs peaked and the removal of pandemic curbs lifted factory output and consumption, a central bank survey showed, a sign the economy was on course for a steady recovery. (Reuters)

The Tokyo Stock Exchange officially launched on Monday, its JPX Prime 150 index. (ANC)

NHK has learned that, starting this month, Japanese electronics giant NEC is planning to offer business services based on its own generative artificial intelligence. (NHK)

Tokyo's benchmark Nikkei 225 stock index hit a 33-year high on Monday after positive results from the Bank of Japan's Tankan survey. (NHK)

Major mobile network provider Softbank Corp is set to develop the company’s own generative artificial intelligence (AI) platform, with an eye on offering services to corporate clients. (borneobulletin)

Opened by a Japanese artist, Smachnogo — 'bon appetit' in Ukrainian — employs war evacuees (Voice of America)

As the price of eggs continues to rise, Lawson will soon sell a new sandwich that uses plant-derived alternative eggs.

Yahoo Japan is considering having another company provide its search engine technology, which is currently supplied by a Google affiliate, Nikkei has learned. (Nikkei)