Police in Niihama, Ehime Prefecture, have arrested a 53-year-old man on suspicion of murder after he stabbed three members of a family to death in their home. (Japan Today)

The Rockin' Cruisin (ロッキンクルージン) American culture car show is now in its 16th year. (WasabiCars)

A four-year-old girl died after she fell from the balcony of her family’s 25th-floor apartment in Osaka on Wednesday morning. (Japan Today)

Japan's education ministry says its latest annual survey shows the number of schoolchildren who killed themselves topped 400 for the first time. (NHK)

The number of coronavirus infections in Japan continues to fall. (n)

Japan has dissolved its parliament, this sets the stage for the general election at the end of the month. This will pit the newly elected prime minister Fumio Kishida against the unpopular opposition. (WION)

Japan plans to set up a Y500 billion ($4.4 billion) fund aimed at supporting firms developing vaccines for infectious diseases and new drugs, under the first economic package to be drawn up since Prime Minister Fumio Kishida took office last week, government sources said Wednesday. (Japan Times)

Procedures started Tuesday to imprison a 90-year-old former senior government official convicted over a high-profile accident in Tokyo in 2019 in which his runaway car killed a woman and her young daughter and injured other people. (Japan Times)

A record 196,127 students at elementary and junior high schools across Japan were absent for 30 days or more in fiscal 2020 amid the coronavirus pandemic, an increase of 14,855 from the previous year, government data showed Wednesday. (Japan Times)

Researchers at Osaka University are trying to mass-produce Japan’s famous Wagyu beef using 3D printers. (South China Morning Post)

Are you interested in the Tokyo / Kanto dialect? (Japanese Ammo with Misa)

In soccer, Japan's 2022 World Cup qualifying campaign got back on track at home when the Samurai Blue defeated Australia with some late drama. (NHK)

In this video, I made a Japanese style kitchen knife. This knife is based on the "gyuto" kitchen knife. (forging hard)

For most people, the word "geisha" conjures visions of Kyoto's Gion district. But there is another major geisha centre, one that even many Japanese don't know. (BBC)

More than 64 percent of the population in Japan has been fully vaccinated against the coronavirus. (NHK)

A couple in their 20s were indicted Monday for murdering an 18-year-old Tokyo high school girl in the central Japan prefecture of Yamanashi in late August, Tokyo prosecutors said. (Kyodo)

Tokyo confirmed 77 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, after renewing the lowest figure this year for three straight days through Monday. (Japan Times)

Back in 1964, Masanori Murakami would make history, as the first player to swap the Nippon Professional League in Japan for Major League Baseball in the States. (newsonjapan.com)

Past political scandals are haunting Japan's new prime minister Fumio Kishida. Facing parliament for the first time, he was bombarded by questions from the opposition. (CNA)

Japan's wholesale prices surged 6.3% in September from a year earlier as raw material costs continued to rise. (WION)

There is absolutely no doubt that the English Premier League is a competition that opens its doors to the world and with the very best footballers playing in the league with the biggest global audience, it is one that sees national representation from many different quarters. (newsonjapan.com)

Yoshio Kinoshita bought a skateboard from a Japanese market on whim. Two years later, the octogenarian is zooming around his local skatepark. ( Inside Edition)

A survey by a research group in Japan has showed that one in four coronavirus patients had symptoms considered to be aftereffects half a year after onset or diagnosis. It says women are at higher risk than men. (NHK)

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Tuesday the government is planning to start administering third doses of COVID-19 vaccine in Japan in December and that it will shoulder the costs. (Kyodo)

Japan's Princess Mako visited the graves of her great-grandparents in Tokyo on Tuesday to offer prayers ahead of her controversy-hit marriage to boyfriend Kei Komuro later this month. (Japan Today)