Nowadays in Japan the divorce rate and unmarried rate are increasing. According to a government report in 2020, almost one third of married couples were divorced and the rate of single people who had never married by 50 years old was 28 for men and 17 percent for women, and it's expected to accelerate. (Japanese Comedian Meshida)

The northern city of Yamagata regained the top spot for ramen noodle consumption in Japan in 2022. It last laid claim to the title in 2020. (NHK)

A high school student in Kawasaki was rushed to hospital on Monday morning after he was stabbed from behind, police said. (Japan Today)

The yen weakened against the US dollar on Monday. Financial markets are speculating that the Bank of Japan will maintain its massive monetary easing policy under a new governor. (NHK)

hey may have just fallen short of making their first ever quarter-final, but Japan’s performance at the 2022 World Cup was one of the biggest stories of Qatar, topping a group containing two of the three previous world champions in Spain and Germany, beating both of them in the process – a feat made all the more impressive by the fact that both opponents had Champions League-winning managers in the dugout. (Euro Football Daily)

A 13-year-old Japanese girl has become the youngest-ever professional title holder in the strategic board game "Go." (NHK)

Japanese musician and composer Masanori Takumi won a Grammy award on Sunday for his album featuring songs performed with traditional Asian instruments. (Japan Today)

The number of sexual assault cases in Japan involving violence or threats rose 9.9 percent to 4,708, according to the data released by the National Police Agency. (MSN)

This is Japan's BIGGEST Chinatown! We spent all our yen and ate dumplings, bubble tea, ice-cream +, more especially since everything was so delicious and cheap!! (Tokyo Creative)

People in Japan are hoarding the cash they accrued during the pandemic despite an easing of restrictions, with savings actually increasing to 62 trillion yen ($478 billion), or more than 10% of the country's gross national product. (Nikkei)

Hotel prices in Japan have soared as government subsidies boosting travel kick in and foreign tourists return, with room rates nearly 20% higher in December compared to the same month before the pandemic delivered a serious blow to the sector. (Nikkei)

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has dismissed one of his secretaries for homophobic comments that the prime minister called “outrageous”. (Al Jazeera)

Japanese sleep less than the inhabitants of every other developed nation, and some analyses suggest this trait hurts productivity. (freemalaysiatoday.com)

Netflix Japan has come under fire after claiming to have used artificial intelligence to help create anime programmes. (unilad.com)

The 73rd Sapporo Snow Festival began in Sapporo, Hokkaido, on Saturday. The festival, featuring more than 160 ice and snow sculptures, is open to the public for the first time since 2020. It was held online only in 2021 and 2022 due to the coronavirus. (Japan Today)

Legoland Japan Resort is located in Nagoya, Aichi prefecture, about a 25 minute train ride from Nagoya station, and the Legoland hotel sits conveniently right in front of the theme park. (Paolo fromTOKYO)

I can finally say it to you!!! We've been working for a year on this project!! We're halfway there because we haven't launched it yet... but, we're going worldwide this year with the goal of getting this sauce in a supermarket near your home! (Kimono Mom)

A secretary to Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, Masayoshi Arai, said Friday night he does "not want to live next door" to an LGBT couple and that he would "hate to see them," but quickly retracted the discriminatory remarks after they were reported by the media. (Nikkei)

The Bank of Japan's unrealized losses on government bonds reached 8.8 trillion yen, or about 68 billion dollars in December. (NHK)

In today’s video we will talk about our traditional Japanese beehive and an experiment we carried out with one of our colonies to try to produce honey in pure white honeycomb.Japanese natural beekeeping (Japanese natural beekeeping)

Japan may be on track to becoming a "land of grandparents," as birth rates falls and its elderly population swells. (AA)

Japan's food exports soared to a 10th straight annual record in 2022, as the economic reopening from the pandemic in many countries sparked renewed interest in dining out. (Nikkei)

Two Japanese cargo ships collided while traveling through the Kurushima Strait in the Seto Inland Sea on the night of February 2 with one of the vessels capsizing and later sinking. (maritime-executive.com)

A district court in Osaka, western Japan, has sentenced a 60-year-old man to life in prison for robbing and killing a 31-year-old woman from Vietnam in April last year. (NHK)

From the mind of horror manga maestro Junji Ito comes a spine-tingling selection of some of his most bizarre, disturbing and terrifying tales. (Netflix Anime)