The foreign substance detected in dozens of vials of Moderna Inc.’s COVID-19 vaccine in Japan is thought to have been tiny pieces of metal, but experts have dismissed concerns over significant health problems, saying that the chance of the foreign material actually entering the body is low. (Japan Times)

A Japanese Paralympian with a visual impairment has been injured after being hit by a self-driving vehicle in the Athletes' Village in Tokyo. (NHK)

The Tokyo Paralympic Games kicked off this past Tuesday. (PBS NewsHour)

Police put a 25-year-old man on a nationwide wanted list Friday in connection with an acid attack at a Tokyo subway station that left two people injured earlier this week. (Japan Times)

A COVID-19 inoculation site for supposedly vaccine-hesitant youth in Tokyo’s Shibuya Ward got off to a rocky start Friday after the capital dramatically underestimated the size of the crowd that would turn up. (Japan Times)

Two people died after receiving Moderna Inc COVID-19 vaccine shots that were among lots later suspended following the discovery of contaminants, Japan's health ministry said on Saturday. (devdiscourse.com)

Tokyo police referred a woman to prosecutors Thursday for allegedly riding an electric kick scooter without a license and colliding with a taxi, injuring a passenger. (Japan Times)

Kanagawa Prefectural Police have arrested a 34-year-old man on suspicion of violating the prefecture’s Ordinance on Juvenile Protection. (Japan Today)

Japanese Bento Box Factory in Tokyo Japan - How a bento box is Made in Japan factory. This is a food tour of all the products that is made in a Japanese bento factory. (Noal Farm)

Intense heat hit wide areas of Japan on Thursday. Weather officials are warning of high temperatures also during the night and on Friday. (NHK)

As Japanese companies increasingly embrace flexible work arrangements during the pandemic, even an operator of bullet trains is having to accommodate passengers who choose to telework during the 2.5-hour trip between Tokyo and Osaka. (Nikkei)

Japan's prime minister has officially expanded the coronavirus state of emergency to cover 8 more prefectures where infections are spreading rapidly. (NHK)

The stolen Royal iconostasis doors of Ayios Anastasios church in the Turkish-occupied Peristeronopigi village of Famagusta have been repatriated from Japan after a complex legal struggle. (financialmirror.com)

The coronavirus vaccination drive at more than 800 sites across Japan may be disrupted after foreign substances were found in some vials of the Moderna vaccine. (NHK)

President Tsai Ing-wen has made headlines in Japan, after getting a shot of the Taiwan-developed Medigen vaccine on Monday. (Formosa TV English News)

Yahoo Japan will vacate 40% of its Tokyo office space by November as it expects the COVID-necessitated work-from-home trend to gain permanence. (Nikkei)

Cardano has been trending for a couple of weeks now, and for good reason. (ambcrypto.com)

The number of COVID-19 patients isolating at home is sharply increasing in Tokyo amid a surge in new cases. (NHK)

A man and a woman sustained burns on Tuesday night after a suspect threw what is believed to be sulfuric acid in a Tokyo subway station and fled the scene, police said, with the incident occurring amid tightened security as the Tokyo Paralympics opened the same day. (Japan Times)

Events at the Tokyo Paralympic Games got underway on Wednesday, following an opening ceremony the previous day. (NHK)

The Tokyo Paralympics kicked off on Tuesday night. For nearly the next two weeks, athletes from around the world will compete in hundreds of events. (NHK)

Tokyo Paralympic Games open on August 24 with athletes hoping to shatter stereotypes and world records despite a year-long pandemic delay and the spectre of a new wave of virus cases in #Japan. Inspiring #dancer, Kenta Kambara, is one of them. (FRANCE 24 English)

Date recorded：Around 5:00pm in August 2021 (Maybe Japan)

There are places that make you feel like you've left the city and entered another more ancient world. Japan should feel like that, but it's harder to find in the capitol. Look no further than Nezu! (ONLY in JAPAN)

NHK has learned that Japan's government and the operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant plan to release treated water from the facility into the ocean through an undersea tunnel. (NHK)