The Japanese government plans to abolish health insurance cards in the fall of 2024 by integrating them into "My Number" ID cards. (NHK)

Japan's lawmakers have issued their strongest warning yet to investors selling the yen after the US dollar soared to a new 24-year high against the currency. (asiafinancial.com)

Japan's main ruling Liberal Democratic Party has decided to suspend a member from party offices for one year after calling former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo "a traitor." (NHK)

Japan's government has worked out safety measures for buses used by nursery schools and kindergartens. (NHK)

Producer prices in Japan rose for a 19th straight month in September, driven up by higher energy and material costs and a rapidly weakening yen. (NHK)

Top Japanese universities have fallen in global rankings compiled by a British journal. (NHK)

A Myanmar military tribunal on Thursday sentenced Japanese documentary filmmaker Toru Kubota to an additional three years in prison for violating immigration laws. (Nikkei)

A Universal Studios Japan worker found what appeared to be human bones near the amusement park's premises in Osaka on Wednesday, police said. (Japan Today)

The latest monthly sales data from Famitsu shows that 2.7 million boxed copies of Splatoon 3 – which was released on September 9 – were sold in Japan across the entire month. (videogameschronicle.com)

An Israeli resident of Japan who was being held at a detention center near Tokyo after being charged in 2020 for smuggling drugs into the country has died, his lawyer said Tuesday. (Kyodo)

Japan on Tuesday became the first country in Asia to receive Internet access from the Starlink satellite system from the SpaceX company controlled by Tesla founder Elon Musk. (UPI)

Japan’s first commercial-scale offshore wind farm is fully in the water in a milestone for the Asian nation’s energy transition. (rechargenews.com)

Epsilon launched from the Mu Pad at the Uchinoura Space Center in Japan at 00:50 UTC on Oct. 12. This launch marked the sixth flight of JAXA’s Epsilon rocket, and the launch vehicle was to loft a rideshare mission into orbit consisting of RAISE-3 and numerous other satellites. (nasaspaceflight.com)

Japanese conveyor-belt sushi chain Kura Sushi will open its first New York State location by August 2024 in an ambitious expansion campaign that aims to quadruple its overseas network. (Nikkei)

Japan’s Nissan Motor Company has decided to sell its Russian operations with an option to buy it back within six years, the company said. (siasat.com)

Here are seven of the very best trains in Japan, from glamorous to panoramic and plain romantic. (cntraveler.com)

The Tokyo metropolitan government on Tuesday began accepting applications from sexual minorities to have their partnerships publicly recognized, ahead of the program's launch on Nov. 1. (Kyodo)

Eager to admire colorful foliage, eat sushi and go shopping, droves of tourists from abroad began arriving in Japan on Tuesday, with the end of pandemic-fighting border restrictions that had been in place for more than two years. (pbs.org)

Access to Japan tour-related websites has been partially disrupted with the start of the Japanese government's domestic travel discount campaign on Tuesday. (NHK)

Known famously as "The City of Water", Gujo Hachiman is a beautiful town in Gifu prefecture. It's also famous for being the birthplace of the ultra-realistic looking fake food, or "samples" as they are known in Japan. (Japan by Food)

Japan is reintroducing a visa waiver program for short-term visitors, and allowing visits by non-escorted individual tourists, as the country lifts most of its COVID-19 border controls. Japan's tourism industry was booming in pre-pandemic years. (NHK)

In recent years, stink bugs, which can cause major damage to farm crops, have been appearing in alarming numbers in Japan. (Japan Today)

Claiming her fiance deceived her into giving him a large amount of cash, Japanese woman Yumiko Sakagami sought justice on Turkish TV. (dailysabah.com)

A 53-year-old man was arrested Monday on suspicion of abandoning the body of a female university student at his home in Sapporo, Hokkaido, over the weekend. (Kyodo)

What we like about Izumo Restaurant is the thought and care that goes into every Unagi dish they make. Located conveniently in central Osaka, just steps from the train station is this humble Izakaya, specializing in Unagi (fresh water eel). (TabiEats)