Kumamoto Prefectural Police have arrested the 30-year-old male manager of a talent agency over the alleged sexual assault of an intoxicated teenage girl in Kumamoto City, reports Nippon News Network. (tokyoreporter.com)

Citizens in Japan have been observing the 72nd anniversary of the end of World War Two. August 15th is the day Japan commemorates the end of the war. (NHK)

A giant panda cub at Tokyo's Ueno Zoo is growing steadily 2 months after her birth. (NHK)

Japanese supermarket chains are trying to lure elderly shoppers, by offering mahjong parlors, health counseling, and other services specifically for these customers. (NHK)

An elderly woman sorting trash at an onsen hot springs resort area in Kaga City found 20 million yen, police said on Monday, reports Jiji Press (Aug. 15). (tokyoreporter.com)

Tokyo Metropolitan Police have arrested a 24-year-old university student after a robbery at a supermarket in Higashi-Murayama City left a female customer injured on Saturday, reports TBS News. (tokyoreporter.com)

Tokyo Metropolitan Police have arrested a 46-year-old driver for a tour bus company in Aichi Prefecture who has admitted to using illegal drugs for more than two decades, reports Nippon News Network. (tokyoreporter.com)

Kanagawa Prefectural Police have arrested a male employee of All Nippon Airways (ANA) for allegedly molesting a teenage girl on a train in Kawasaki City last year, reports NHK. (tokyoreporter.com)

A 21-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of assault after he beat a 55-year-old man unconsciousness following a dispute outside JR Kameido Station in Tokyo's Koto Ward. (Japan Today)

Three workmen fell to their deaths at a building construction site in Tokyo's Marunouchi district on Friday. (Japan Today)

The Justice Ministry intends to introduce a videophone-based interpretation system for foreign nationals in prisons and detention centers. (the-japan-news.com)

Labor authorities have officially acknowledged that a Japanese doctor killed himself due to overwork. His suicide has drawn attention to the harsh working conditions of people in the medical field. (NHK)

With its densely packed cities and fast-paced professional world, some in Japan may have trouble finding time to appreciate the country's boundless natural beauty. So in 2014, a new holiday was invented to remind them to pause and take a look around: Mountain Day. (Time)

Former Liberal Democratic Party Secretary-General Shigeru Ishiba is the most popular pick among the public as a politician deemed preferable to become Japan's next prime minister, a Jiji Press poll has found. (Japan Times)

A 39-year-old man was served a fresh arrest warrant Friday for allegedly murdering two Chinese sisters whose bodies were found stuffed in travel bags in woods southwest of Tokyo last month, police said. (Japan Today)

While Toshiba appears to have averted the risk of immediate delisting from the Tokyo Stock Exchange by submitting its annual financial results with sign-off by an auditor ahead of the deadline, the Japanese conglomerate's prospects of maintaining its listing remain far from certain. (Japan Times)

Police in Tokyo said Thursday they have arrested a 33-year-old woman on suspicion of murder after a man found in her apartment in Chiyoda Ward, died from stab wounds. (Japan Today)

A Tokyo personnel dispatch company unveiled a new farm on the 13th floor of its Tokyo headquarters on Wednesday. (Kyodo)

Rest your body and wallet as you travel half-way across the country in your sleep. (rocketnews24.com)

Tokyo Metropolitan Police have arrested a 31-year-old man over the alleged cultivation of marijuana in Hachioji City, reports TBS News. (tokyoreporter.com)

McDonald's Holdings Co. (Japan) is enjoying a resurgence of earnings as a series of post-scandal rebuilding efforts led by President Sarah Casanova bear fruit. (Nikkei)

An object appearing to be unexploded ordnance was found at disaster-hit Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant by a worker, according to Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc., who reported the find to police. (Japan Times)

Fukushima Prefectural Police have arrested a 39-year-old woman for allegedly stabbing her boyfriend inside the bar she manages in Iwaki City on Tuesday, reports TV Asahi. (tokyoreporter.com)

Ibaraki Prefectural Police have re-arrested a 56-year-old female hairdresser for allegedly burying the corpse of an elderly male acquaintance who went missing in Naka City earlier this year, reports the Sankei Shimbun. (tokyoreporter.com)

Temperatures soared along the Pacific coast in eastern and western Japan on Wednesday with the mercury topping 37 C in Tokyo and other cities in the Kanto region as Typhoon Noru's passage was followed by a warm air mass. (Japan Today)