Toyota Motor Corporation together with a major construction company will begin a project using hydrogen produced with geothermal energy. (NHK)

As competitors battled for the podium on the third day of Olympic athletics on Sunday, it was Tokyo’s stunning heat that perhaps dished out the most pain. (Japan Times)

IKEA is the largest furniture retailer in the world, so how does this behemoth company squeeze into Shinjuku, one of the tightest downtown areas in the world? (Life in Japan)

Japan's National Institute of Infectious Diseases says 67 people in the country were confirmed to have the coronavirus during the three-month period through June despite being fully vaccinated. (NHK)

Japan's coronavirus state of emergency has been extended and expanded to include three of Tokyo's neighboring prefectures and Osaka. (NHK)

Japan secured its best-ever Olympic gold medal tally on Friday after winning the men's fencing team epee event. (NHK)

The average life expectancy in Japan reached record highs for both men and women last year. (NHK)

NHK has learned that the man whose engagement with Japan's Princess Mako was postponed is to start his law career in the US state of New York. (NHK)

In Tokyo for the Olympics, TODAY senior international correspondent Keir Simmons took the time to visit the ancient Japanese capital of Kyoto, a city of unparalleled beauty and the cultural heart of the country. He also got a lesson in Zen meditation. (TODAY)

Kotodama (言霊) refers to the belief that words have mystical powers. It combines the word for "speech" (言 koto) and the word for "soul"(霊 tama). (Japan Today)

A five-year-old boy died Thursday after being left behind in a school bus for hours on a hot summer day in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Fukuoka, police said. (Kyodo)

Delegates to an international conference on the management of bluefin tuna stocks in the Pacific Ocean have agreed to raise the catch quota for large fish in its western and central waters. (NHK)

Japan's overnight sleeper train is stunning. We ride 11 hours & 600km from Tokyo to Tottori on the Sunrise Express in search of the Tottori sand dune desert. (Abroad in Japan)

As Japanese universities fall further in global rankings, the government is launching a new 10 trillion yen ($91 billion) endowment fund designed to help them better compete with top institutions around the world. (Nikkein)

Japan has confirmed more than 10,000 daily coronavirus cases for the first time. The nationwide record is fueled by a surge of infections in the capital and surrounding area. (NHK)

TOKYO - Japan’s factory output rebounded in June and job availability rose to the highest level in nearly a year, data showed, a sign robust overseas demand was offsetting the drag to consumption from the pandemic. (Reuters)

The impact Japan has had on pop culture around the world goes way beyond Hello Kitty backpacks to influence everything from plush toys to TV shows. (TODAY)

Japanese physicist Maskawa Toshihide who won the Nobel Prize in 2008 has died of cancer at the age of 81. (NHK)

As Japan's impressive medal haul grows, sales of official Tokyo Olympics merchandise such as badges and keyrings have been surging, with fans queuing outside stores to buy them despite mounting COVID-19 infections. (Kyodo)

The Japanese women's rugby sevens team lost the first two games of their Olympic tournament on Thursday, continuing the host nation's poor Tokyo Games in the sport. (Kyodo)

Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said Thursday there is no link between the recent surge in the number of coronavirus infections in Japan and the holding of the Tokyo Olympics. (Japan Times)

Yuko Oshima, a former leading member of the popular Japanese all-girl idol group AKB48, and Japanese actor Kento Hayashi are set to marry, the couple said Thursday. (Kyodo)

Miyama is 30 km north of central Kyoto, known for it's traditional Japanese thatched roof farmhouses called kayabuki. Kayabuki no Sato is Miyama's main village with around 40 traditional kayabuki. (shashinjapan)

Two people attending the Tokyo Olympics from overseas have been hospitalised with COVID-19, a Tokyo 2020 spokesperson said on Thursday, amid concerns the Games will add to the strains on Japan's medical system. (Reuters)

Japan has confirmed more 10,000 daily coronavirus cases for the first time. (NHK)