Japan's Emperor Naruhito will attend the opening ceremony of the National Sports Festival on October 1 in Tochigi Prefecture, north of Tokyo. (NHK)

Chainsaw Man is coming to Netflix this year. Netflix Japan has just confirmed that the highly anticipated anime will be available on the streaming service soon after its October premiere. (epicstream.com)

The East Japan Railway Company, known in Japan as JR East, is the largest railway company in Japan. It operates routes that extend from Tokyo to the outskirts of Hokkaido. (nationworldnews.com)

Kohei Saito’s book Capital in the Anthropocene has become an unlikely hit among young people and is about to be translated into English. (theguardian.com)

Japan is very proud of its trains, and in many ways rightfully so. The country has one of the cleanest, most reliable, and most convenient rail networks to be found anywhere on the planet. (Japan Today)

A Japanese court on Friday ordered Tokyo Medical University to pay damages totaling around 18.26 million yen to 27 women who claimed the school rigged its entrance exams in favor of male candidates, depriving them of admission. (Japan Today)

Police in Tokyo on Friday charged a 34-year-old man, already under arrest on suspicion of illegally confining a 23-year-old woman and then leaving her body in a forest in Ibaraki Prefecture, with her murder in June. (Japan Today)

Police said Thursday they have arrested six teenagers on suspicion of robbing a 30-year-old man in Tokyo in a case known in Japan as "papakatsu," whereby a man gives money to a young girl in exchange for a date. (Kyodo)

Researchers in Japan say their 20-year-long study shows that people who eat lots of fruit and vegetables are at lower risk of death compared to those who eat little of such food. (NHK)

Police in Tachikawa, Tokyo, have arrested a 44-year-old man on suspicion of arson and property destruction after he allegedly set fire to a bar last month. (Japan Today)

Licensed tour guides in Japan are getting ready to resume work as more foreign tourists are expected to visit the country now that border controls have been relaxed. (NHK)

Amazon’s unionization woes have spread to a new continent, as delivery drivers in one of the company’s biggest markets have rallied to fight poor conditions they say are intensified by the tech giant’s A.I. system. (fortune.com)

A 3-year-old girl died Monday after she was likely left for about five hours inside a kindergarten school bus in Makinohara, Shizuoka Prefecture, southwest of Tokyo, police said. (Kyodo)

Prince Hisahito, the nephew of Emperor Naruhito and second in line to the Japanese imperial throne, turned 16 Tuesday after starting senior high school this spring. (Kyodo)

Former yokozuna Hakuho will hold his official retirement ceremony on Jan. 28 at Tokyo's Ryogoku Kokugikan, the winner of a record 45 grand sumo tournaments announced Monday in an online press conference. (Kyodo)

Some traditional autumn events that were canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic are drawing crowds again for the first time in three years. (NHK)

It gets HOT in Tokyo, and there’s no better way to cool down than with some refreshing kakigori, aka shaved ice. (Japan by Food)

Haruyuki Takahashi, a former Tokyo Olympic organizing committee executive arrested in a bribery case involving a sponsorship contract for a clothes retailer, may also have been asked to favor publishing company Kadokawa Corp, a source familiar with the matter said Saturday. (Japan Today)

This October and November, the Heisei Nakamura-za will be erected on the grounds of Sensō-ji temple, in the Tokyo entertainment district of Asakusa, and two different programs of the unique Nakamuraya kabuki will be performed each month. (Kabuki In-Depth)

A 28-year-old man who was arrested on suspicion of killing his 54-year-old adoptive mother last year has died after being found unresponsive in his detention cell in Osaka, authorities said Friday. (Japan Today)

The Japanese government decided Friday to introduce penalties for major hospitals that fail to provide outpatient care and prepare beds for patients with COVID-19 and other infectious diseases against prearrangements with local governments. (Kyodo)

Children living in Japan’s hottest city will be given specially designed umbrellas to protect them from the heat, after a summer that saw record-breaking temperatures in many parts of the country. (theguardian.com)

East Japan Railway will shrink its rail workforce by about 10% over the coming years to bring it in line with sluggish commuter traffic, in the industry's first big post-pandemic retrenchment plan. (Nikkei)

Japan's annual whaling season has now reached its peak. It is three years since the country withdrew from the International Whaling Commission and resumed commercial hunting. (NHK)

A district court in Japan has sentenced a former male babysitter to 20 years in prison for sexually assaulting 20 children. (NHK)