The Olympics basketball shooting robot had everyone making Ben Simmons jokes (MLG Highlights)

“It is a mountain that is an object of worship.” Hikers are flocking back to Japan’s iconic Mount Fuji as the active volcano’s symmetrical slopes reopen to the public after being off-limits for a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Al Jazeera)

The South Korean Olympic squad's decision to bring its own team of chefs and food ingredients to the Tokyo Games has led to a controversy in Japan. (aljazeera.com)

TOKYO (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan's 2% inflation target has pulled Japan's economy out of deflation, Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said on Tuesday, adding that this was not a mistaken policy. (usnews.com)

An ultra-high-speed computer, known as a "quantum computer," has started operating for commercial use in Japan. (NHK)

The opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics gave companies a stage on which to showcase their products and technologies to the world. (Nikkei)

“Masaka” — or, in English, “No way.” That’s how an incredulous Japan reacted Tuesday to the unexpectedly early loss of Naomi Osaka at the Tokyo Olympics, erasing her chances for gold. (winknews.com)

Japan on Tuesday successfully tested a rocket engine that was propelled by new technology using shock waves produced by burning a mixture of methane and oxygen gasses, with the aim of applying the propulsion method to deep space exploration in the future, the country’s space agency said. (Japan Times)

Japan took home the gold medal Tuesday, stunning the U.S. softball team 13 years after the Japanese defeated the Americans at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. (nbcnews.com)

Doctors in Tokyo are expressing growing alarm as more COVID-19 patients, even moderate cases, are requiring advanced treatment amid a surge in new infections. (NHK)

Takanori Nagase on Tuesday won Japan’s fifth gold medal in judo at the Tokyo Olympics, beating Mongolia’s Saeid Mollaei in the final of the men’s 81-kilogram division. (Japan Today)

Japanese authorities have lifted evacuation orders for thousands of households after a tropical storm hit the northeast of the country. (NHK)

Tropical storm Nepartak made landfall on the Pacific coast of northeastern Japan on Wednesday morning. (NHK)

UNESCO has added a cluster of archaeological sites dotted across the northern Japanese prefectures of Hokkaido, Aomori, Iwate and Akita to its list of World Cultural Heritage sites. (NHK)

There are signs that the Japanese public may be warming to the Olympics. (Al Jazeera)

Lawmaker Hiranao Honda expressed his intention to step down on Tuesday, after leaving the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan the same day over inappropriate comments he made regarding the age of consent. (Japan Times)

More than 8,100 people were taken to hospitals across Japan with apparent heatstroke last week. The number was nearly twice as high as the week before. (NHK)

Japan is justly famous for its sake, its most famous alcoholic drink, and now it’s becoming noteworthy for its whiskey as well. (TODAY)

Sharing my experience of being in three different Japanese television shows. (Yellow Productions)

The Japanese pair won the table tennis mixed doubles on Monday, earning Japan's first Olympic gold medal in that sport. (NHK)

Marcel Thieliant of Capital Economics says he expects restrictions on activity in Japan to begin easing by the end of this quarter as the elderly should be fully vaccinated by then. (CNBC International TV)

UNESCO will recognize Amami Oshima and other islands in Japan's southwest as a World Heritage site for their array of one-of-a-kind animal and plant species, the United Nations agency decided Monday. (Nikkei)

Japan's Ono Shohei has won the gold medal in the men's judo 73-kilogram category. He beat Georgia's Lasha Shavdatuashvili in the final. (NHK)

A 59-year-old man from Nagoya has been arrested after scattering flyers protesting the Tokyo Olympics from a running subway train in the central Japan city, police said Sunday. (Kyodo)

TOKYO -- Japan's largest hydrogen plant powered by offshore wind energy is set to open on the northern island of Hokkaido as part of a national effort to slash carbon dioxide emissions. (Nikkei)