Japanese director Hamaguchi Ryusuke and scriptwriter Oe Takamasa have won the Best Screenplay Award at the Cannes Film Festival for the movie "Drive My Car." (NHK)

Nearly 80% of 47 prefectural capitals in Japan said they either have changed or intend to change their plans to vaccinate their local residents against COVID-19 amid a supply shortage of vaccines, a Kyodo News survey showed Saturday. (Kyodo)

TAIPEI – The Taiwanese government said Sunday it has canceled the planned visit to Japan by digital minister Audrey Tang for the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics. (Japan Times)

Elements from Japanese culture are in our lives right now. What associations arise in your head, when you hear the word Japan? Perhaps you instantly remember about sushi? (Top10 videosworld)

A bunch of high-end red grapes sold Friday in central Japan for 1.4 million yen ($12,700) in the season's first auction, up 100,000 yen from the year before and setting a record for the third straight year. (Kyodo)

Tokyo residents were treated to an unusual sight on July 16 when a giant floating head appeared over the city’s Yoyogi Park. (yahoo.com)

False claims and misinformation about vaccines on social media are undermining young people's trust in COVID-19 vaccines in Japan, imperiling the government's efforts to finish large-scale inoculations by November as it pursues herd immunity. (Kyodo)

CHIBA – The government has asked airlines to halt new bookings by the general public for flights arriving in Japan during the period when arrivals of athletes and delegation officials for the Tokyo Olympics increase, sources have said. (Japan Times)

Japan's Self-Defense Forces will deploy state-of-the-art F-35B stealth fighters in southwestern Miyazaki Prefecture, Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi said Friday, as the country ramps up defenses around its Nansei Islands. (Nikkei)

OSAKA – Imagine it’s late at night and you just got off the train, ready to head home. You go to the bike rack, pull out your bicycle, hop on and start pedaling. The night breeze is refreshing, and you know you’ll be home in no time. (Japan Times)

OSAKA – A Ugandan athlete who is missing from his pre-Olympic training camp in Osaka Prefecture left a note saying he hoped to work in Japan because life is difficult in his home country, a local official said Friday. (Japan Times)

This year’s rainy season appears to have ended in the Kanto-Koshin and Tohoku regions, the Meteorological Agency said Friday. (Japan Times)

SpaceX's Japanese billionaire customer and eight other people will be riding the Starship to go on a mission to the moon. (techtimes.com)

Summer is here, and with it comes camps and retreats, school work for the kids and vacations that can be threatened by thunderstorms. ( Life in Japan)

Those looking for definitive answers about Naomi Osaka and how she copes with the demands of her career and fame shouldn’t expect to find them in a new Netflix docuseries about the four-time Grand Slam champion. (Japan Today)

The Japanese government says that nearly 80 percent of the elderly in the country have received at least one shot of a coronavirus vaccine so far, and more than half of them have been fully vaccinated with two shots. (NHK)

Today we are Exploring the beautiful and historical Japanese village of Shirakawago in Gifu prefecture. (Tokyo Lens Explore)

Shimano's showroom at its headquarters in Osaka is a shrine to the technology that has made the company a household name in global cycling. (Nikkei)

After a hard-fought election win last January, 2021 was gearing up to the year of Councilman Super Crazy Kun. (Japan Today)

From boisterous bars in Tokyo to bucolic breweries in the hinterland beyond the capital, sake is intertwined with Japan’s cultural and spiritual life. (National Geographic)

TOKYO — Local officials are searching for a Ugandan athlete who went missing in western Japan on Friday in a case raising questions over Japanese organizers’ oversight of Olympic participants amid local coronavirus concerns. (nbcnews.com)

I'm sorry for reporting a negative news so often. I know this video will make you uncomfortable, but I think it's so important to face the reality. (Nobita from Japan)

Japan's auto manufacturers are closely watching a move by the European Union to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. (NHK)

Former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn became an international fugitive after fleeing house arrest in Japan in 2019. (BBC)

The health ministry plans to lower the minimum age for the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Moderna Inc. from 18 to 12, sources with access to the plan said Thursday. (Japan Times)