Step into Japan right here in the city of Cebu. (Shaina Joy Mahinay)

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)

British aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth has held its first drill with the Japanese Self-Defense Forces off the south of Okinawa, a demonstration of the Royal Navy's increasing presence in the Indo-Pacific. (Nikkei)

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)

A roller coaster in Japan capable of hitting speeds of up to 112 miles per hour (180 km/h) is being shut down indefinitely pending an investigation into whether injuries sustained by passengers were linked to the ride. (ctvnews.ca)

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

Schools across Japan are stepping up measures against student suicides that have been on the rise amid the coronavirus pandemic, holding sessions about mental health and using technology to help students report their moods. (Japan Times)

Japan has always been famed as a country of many contrasts. (newsonjapan.com)

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)

A cafe in central Tokyo is using robots to serve customers. (South China Morning Post)

Highlighting the increasingly heavy toll a recent wave of COVID-19 infections is taking on Japan's economy. (WION)

Maid cafés (Japanese: メイド喫茶 or メイドカフェ) are a type of cosplay restaurants found mostly in Japan. (hiding in my room)

A court in western Japan has sentenced the head of a notorious crime syndicate to death for killing or injuring four people. (NHK)

Convenience store operator Seven & i Holdings will launch delivery services across Japan as early as 2026, Nikkei has learned. (Nikkei)

Watermelon is called Suika in Japan. Suika is another item that frequently show up in typical scenes of hot Japanese summer. (Japan village life Shibata)

DUBAI – Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi called on Japan to release Iranian funds frozen in the country because of U.S. sanctions, Iranian state TV reported after the president met on Sunday with the visiting Japanese foreign minister. (Japan Times)

The Japanese government and the Tokyo Metropolitan government appealed on Monday to hospitals in the capital to accept more COVID-19 patients as increasing infections has made it increasingly difficult to get access to care. (Reuters)

The Japanese government is planning to send Self-Defense Force aircraft to Afghanistan to evacuate more Japanese nationals and local embassy staff. (NHK)