While Japanese women acknowledge being influenced by European and American fashion, it is Korean style, worn by K-pop icons, that is having the biggest impact on what women are wearing on the streets of Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya. (inquirer.net)

The International Paralympic Committee said two Afghan athletes who were due to compete in the Tokyo Games arrived in Japan on Saturday. (NHK)

Today we are doing a full day of thrift stores and second hand shops here in Japan. (Tokyo Lens)

Taisho Era is Japan's Romantic period between 1912-1926. During this time, Japan's culture thrived with so many novelists, artists, and architecture was born. (WAO RYU!ONLY in JAPAN)

Understated at first glance, this medal case fulfils three roles: “to contain,” “to carry,” and “to display,” while encapsulating the Japanese aesthetic within its details. (Tokyo 2020)

Thousands of people swarmed a walk-in COVID-19 vaccination site newly set up in central Tokyo for young people on Saturday morning, hoping to get tickets for about 300 shots offered for the day. (Japan Times)

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)