Tokyo’s delayed Olympics is flipping conventional wisdom on its head, with Japan’s stay-at-home stocks expected to emerge as winners rather than once-favored advertisers, real-estate firms and travel operators. (Japan Times)

Ozeki champion Terunofuji has been promoted to sumo's highest rank of yokozuna. (NHK)

Welcome to Jimbocho. This neighborhood has got a lot of history. It's also got a lot of cafes. (ONLY in JAPAN * GO)

Since September last year, Argentina-based human rights lawyer Daniela Bertone has spent many nights breastfeeding her year-old toddler while working on her master’s degree in peace studies at Japan’s International Christian University. (South China Morning Post)

While it's not as attractive as a land-speed record set in Black Rock Desert, Japan's latest benchmark when it comes to internet speed is much more impressive. (gamespot.com)

The communications ministry plans to launch as early as this fiscal year a new system to allow the airwaves for live television broadcasts to be also used for 5G ultrahigh-speed mobile communications, informed sources said Monday. (Japan Times)

Japanese musician Keigo Oyamada said Monday he will leave the creative team for the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics after admitting that he bullied children with disabilities many years ago. (Japan Times)

Video posted online shows three members of the public ignoring social distancing rules to take photos with squad (South China Morning Post)

A female gymnast from the United States has tested positive for coronavirus, an official in the city where the team has been staying to train said on Monday. (devdiscourse.com)

The United States on Monday condemned China for using “contract hackers” to conduct cyberattacks, and said Japan, NATO, the European Union and others are similarly critical of Beijing’s “malicious” activity in cyberspace. (Japan Times)

The Tokyo Olympic organizing committee has confirmed that two athletes who tested positive for the coronavirus are players of South Africa's men's soccer team staying at the Athletes' Village. (NHK)

An 80-year-old man was found stabbed to death in his apartment in Kyoto, police said Sunday. (Japan Today)

A Japanese court has handed down prison sentences to two US citizens who helped former Nissan Motor chairman Carlos Ghosn flee Japan. (NHK)

Foreign luxury cars priced at more than 10 million yen in Japan are becoming popular among wealthy people who cannot travel abroad amid the coronavirus pandemic and who are willing to spend money on the back of higher global share prices. (Japan Today)

A giant puppet named Mocco has arrived in Tokyo carrying messages from the Tohoku region in northeastern Japan. (NHK)

Concerns were raised about the smell and the quality of water of the Tokyo Bay, the outdoor swimming venue for the Olympics' triathlon, just days before the games are set to begin. (Ruptly)

I took an overnight ferry from Osaka to Kagoshima in Kyushu, Japan. It was more like a cruise ship than a ferry and relaxing to spend 15 hours. (Solo Travel Japan)

Police arrested a university student from Uzbekistan on Sunday on suspicion of raping a Japanese woman while the two were working part time at the National Stadium for the upcoming Tokyo Olympics. (Japan Today)

The rainy season has ended across Japan, pushing up the temperature in the city of Sapporo in the country's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido to record levels. (NHK)

Tokyo 2020 sponsor Toyota will not run Olympics-related TV commercials amid lacklustre public support for the Olympics, with two-thirds of Japanese doubting organisers can keep the Games safe during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a local media poll. (indianexpress.com)

The approval rating for Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga's cabinet has fallen to 35.9 percent, the lowest level since he took office last year, a Kyodo News poll showed Sunday, adding to signs of public discontent with the government's determination to hold the Tokyo Olympics despite the coronavirus pandemic. (Japan Today)

A memorial service was held Sunday to mark two years since the deadly arson attack at a studio of the Kyoto Animation production company in western Japan. (NHK)

As Japan's Olympic Games draw ever closer, protests against the tournament are intensifying. (On Demand News)

A popular beach in Iwate prefecture that was badly damaged in the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami has reopened for the first time since the disaster. (NHK)

There are so many amazing women in the Japanese skate scene. ( Vans)