"Discover Kyushu Express 36 plus 3" runs on different routes from Thursday to Monday, going around Kyushu. I tried the Friday route from Kagoshima-chuo to Miyazaki. (Solo Travel Japan)

Japan's coastguard on Sunday (Apr 24) confirmed at least 10 people were killed after a tourist boat sank in frigid waters a day earlier, with the search for others onboard continuing. (CNA)

Kanagawa prefectural police are searching for a man who uses a motorbike to come up behind pedestrians and snatch their bags. (Japan Today)

Nissan Motor will stop making cars under its revived Datsun brand, Nikkei has learned. (Nikkei)

Household budgets in Japan are being squeezed as a range of factors including higher raw-material costs make other goods more expensive. (NHK)

Coming off his first top-division championship in March, sekiwake Wakatakakage remains on the more prestigious east side of the latest rankings released Monday by the Japan Sumo Association ahead of next month's Summer Grand Sumo Tournament. (Kyodo)

In a hurried and confusing age, in which we all seem to have adapted to the violent rapidity of globalization, people are constantly looking for a method or practical advice to achieve a state of inner calm. (newsonjapan.com)

A Japanese woman believed to have been the world's oldest person has died aged 119, according to Japan's public broadcaster. (abc.net.au)

The Ukrainian government has apologized over a video shared on Twitter that juxtaposed a picture of the late Japanese Emperor Hirohito to those of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini in describing Nazism and fascism. (Japan Today)

Police in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, have arrested a 70-year-old man on suspicion of assault after he threw a milk bottle at a woman in her 70s. (Japan Today)

The Snow Corridor in Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route is the highest snow wall in Japan. This area is heavily snowed during the winter and it costs about $1 million to remove snow. (Travel Alone Idea)

This is how Japanese school food lunches are made in Japan called Kyushoku（給食) it’s served in all Japanese elementary and most junior high schools, it’s known for its balanced and varied menu all planned by certified nutritionist. (Paolo fromTOKYO)

Japan's foreign minister promised his country would bolster its military to help the United States maintain regional security during a visit on Saturday to a U.S. aircraft carrier patrolling Asian waters. (Nikkei)

This is the Best Tokyo Street Food guide at Tsukiji Fish Market. (SAMURAI JUNJIRO Channel)

Japan has seen a surge in job-hopping among older workers as companies seek experienced individuals who can help them grow in the post-pandemic era. (Nikkei)

A giant squid more than 3 metres (10 feet) long has been found alive. (South China Morning Post)

Let's talk to the fullest. Let's laugh like never before. Let's scream with a loud voice. Life needs a crazy day at Universal Studios Japan. (Cow Missing)

Japan is a slowly aging economy stuck in low rates of inflation and comparatively low GDP growth rates. (seekingalpha.com)

"A lot of omiyage. This time I bought so many, many, many souvenirs." Tourism leaders are expecting hundreds of Japanese visitors starting next week -- Golden Week -- a major travel holiday season in Japan. (KITV)

Japanese fishers are gearing up for the annual salmon season in the northern Pacific Ocean. They'll be setting off later than usual, due to delays in fishery talks amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine. (NHK)

Choi Bae Dal is a young man with ambition, brawn and a quiet, solitary intellect; the story begins with a short glimpse of how Bae Dal started in his endless search to be great, going from a young street boxer to joining the Japanese Air Force in 1938 during the end of WWII. (Fox Recaps)

In early March, Rakuten executives Hiroshi Mikitani and Tareq Amin returned to Barcelona, the site of their fateful first meeting. On the sidelines of the Mobile World Congress in 2018, Amin, then an executive at Indian telecom Reliance Jio, had sold Rakuten founder Mikitani on the idea of building Japan's fourth mobile network and using a then-untested technology to do it. (Nikkei)

Real-estate developers have held a ceremony to mark the completion of the frame for a Tokyo skyscraper that is to be Japan's tallest at 330 meters. (NHK)

Japanese convenience store operator FamilyMart will establish lending bases for electric scooters at more than 600 stores, Nikkei has learned. (Nikkei)

A cross-party group of more than 100 Japanese lawmakers on Friday visited Yasukuni, a Shinto shrine in Tokyo regarded as a symbol of Japan's past militarism by its Asian neighbors, for its spring festival. (Kyodo)