Police in Nagoya said Monday they have arrested an 18-year-old male driver on suspicion of reckless driving resulting in death after he allegedly hit and killed a 17-year-old vocational student, and then kept going. (Japan Today)

The Osaka District Court on Monday fined a man 300,000 yen ($2,200) for briefly putting his 2-month-old son in the freezer compartment of a fridge in a hotel guest room in April last year. (Kyodo)

Japan's land ministry has come under fire for its all-male lineup for lecturers in a planned online course about community development aimed at public servants, with the minister on Friday describing the lack of female representation as "inappropriate." (Kyodo)

The Saitama District Court has handed a 20-year prison sentence to an unemployed man who holed himself up in an internet cafe, taking a female employee hostage last June. (Japan Today)

Five people were injured on Tuesday night after a man committed suicide by jumping from a platform into the path of an express train in Kobe. The impact hurled his body back onto the platform where he hit and injured five commuters. (Japan Today)

The Utsunomiya District Court in Tochigi Prefecture on Tuesday sentenced a 29-year-old man to two years in prison after he was convicted of assaulting a 17-year-old boy who asked him to stop smoking on a train. (Japan Today)

Police in Japan are searching for a wild monkey that has attacked 10 people in the space of a fortnight. (theguardian.com)

Police in Asahikawa, Hokkaido, have arrested a 27-year-old woman on charges of parental neglect after she left her two young children at home alone for over 10 hours while she played pachinko. (Japan Today)

The number of students in elementary and junior high schools in Japan fell by around 1 million from a decade earlier to about 9.56 million in 2020, according to a government survey, underscoring the rapid aging of the country's population. (Kyodo)

Police in Fukuoka have arrested a 32-year-old unemployed woman on suspicion of attempted murder after she stabbed a 13-year-old boy. (Japan Today)

Marathon runner Hitomi Niiya has become the 11th member of the Japanese team at the World Athletics Championships to test positive for the coronavirus, the Japan Association of Athletics Federations said Sunday. (Kyodo)

The Unification Church, at the center of growing public scrutiny over former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's assassination, on Sunday corrected remarks that it has had "no trouble" with its followers since 2009. (Kyodo)

Tokyo has tumbled to the ninth-most expensive city for people working abroad in 2022 from third a year earlier, partly due to the weakening of the yen against the U.S. dollar and other major currencies, according to an annual cost of living survey by a U.S. consulting firm. (Kyodo)

A total of 83.3 percent of university seniors in Japan who are scheduled to graduate next March have secured job offers as of July 1, with the figure almost recovering to pre-pandemic levels, a recent survey found. (Kyodo)

Demotion-threatened ozeki Mitakeumi was forced to pull out of the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament on Saturday after a positive COVID-19 case was reported at his Dewanoumi stable. (Kyodo)

Demotion-threatened ozeki Shodai ended No. 2 maegashira Ichinojo's perfect start at the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament after seven days on Saturday, with seven wrestlers a win behind the sole leader. (Kyodo)

Toyota Motor Corp. on Friday unveiled a new line of its long-running Crown series of luxury vehicles, revealing four new models, including crossover and sport utility variations. (Kyodo)

The minister in charge of Japan's COVID-19 response said Thursday the government does not expect to ask people to curb social and economic activities again even as the country faces a seventh wave of infections in recent weeks fueled by the highly-transmissible BA.5 Omicron subvariant. (Kyodo)

The Tokyo metropolitan government raised its COVID-19 alert to the highest of four levels Thursday amid a resurgence of coronavirus infections. (Kyodo)

Japanese police said Wednesday they have found a number of what they believe are bullet marks on a building near the site of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's assassination last week in western Japan, apparently from the first shot fired from a suspect's powerful homemade gun that narrowly missed Abe. (AP)

The procession of a major festival in Kyoto will be held on Oct. 22 after a two-year suspension amid the novel coronavirus pandemic. (Kyodo)

Police in Tokyo on Monday arrested a 37-year-old man on suspicion of killing an 18-year-old woman in a love hotel. (Japan Today)

Police in Saitama have arrested a 70-year-old man on suspicion of killing a 30-year-old woman with whom he lived by beating her with a golf club. (Japan Today)

Japan won gold medals in three out of five weight classes held Sunday, the final day of the three-day Judo Grand Slam in Budapest, Hungary. (Kyodo)

A record 35 women won seats in Sunday's House of Councillors election in Japan after votes were tallied Monday, breaking the previous record of 28 set in 2016 and matched in 2019. (Kyodo)