Society
Sake brewing to be registered as intangible cultural asset
Japan Times - Oct 16
A Japanese government panel Friday advised culture minister Shinsuke Suematsu to register a traditional way of making sake using koji, a type of fungus, as an intangible cultural asset under a new system.
Princess Mako's boyfriend to meet her parents ahead of marriage
Kyodo - Oct 16
Princess Mako's boyfriend Kei Komuro will meet her parents on Monday ahead of their marriage scheduled for later this month, the Imperial Household Agency said Friday, with an unresolved financial dispute involving his mother clouding the celebratory mood.
Around Japan With a Movie Camera | BFI London Film Festival 2021
BFI - Oct 15
Intense interest in Japan by the West made it a favourite destination for filmmakers from the earliest days of film. This selection of films from 1901 to 1913, newly restored by the BFI National Archive, takes us on a fascinating journey through Meiji Japan.
Man arrested after fatally stabbing 3 people in Ehime
Japan Today - Oct 15
Police in Niihama, Ehime Prefecture, have arrested a 53-year-old man on suspicion of murder after he stabbed three members of a family to death in their home.
4-year-old girl dies after falling from 25th-floor balcony in Osaka
Japan Today - Oct 14
A four-year-old girl died after she fell from the balcony of her family’s 25th-floor apartment in Osaka on Wednesday morning.
Procedures underway to imprison ex-bureaucrat over fatal car crash in Tokyo
Japan Times - Oct 14
Procedures started Tuesday to imprison a 90-year-old former senior government official convicted over a high-profile accident in Tokyo in 2019 in which his runaway car killed a woman and her young daughter and injured other people.
The Niigata Geigi: Japan's 'other' geishas
BBC - Oct 13
For most people, the word "geisha" conjures visions of Kyoto's Gion district. But there is another major geisha centre, one that even many Japanese don't know.
Princess Mako visits imperial graves ahead of high-profile marriage
Japan Today - Oct 12
Japan's Princess Mako visited the graves of her great-grandparents in Tokyo on Tuesday to offer prayers ahead of her controversy-hit marriage to boyfriend Kei Komuro later this month.
Couple indicted for murder of Tokyo high school girl in Aug.
Kyodo - Oct 12
A couple in their 20s were indicted Monday for murdering an 18-year-old Tokyo high school girl in the central Japan prefecture of Yamanashi in late August, Tokyo prosecutors said.
Renowned rakugo storyteller Yanagiya Kosanji dies
NHK - Oct 11
Famed Japanese rakugo storyteller and designated Living National Treasure Yanagiya Kosanji died of heart failure in Tokyo on Thursday. He was 81.
Emus escape tourist farm in Kumamoto
NHK - Oct 08
A large group of emus -- giant flightless birds native to Australia -- has escaped from a tourist farm in Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan.
Death row inmate sues govt. over colored pencils
NHK - Oct 07
A trial has begun in Japan involving a death row inmate who wants to use colored pencils.
Laptop dispute pits Carlos Ghosn’s lawyer against Japan’s justice system
ft.com - Oct 07
An impassioned dispute over the access to less than a yen’s worth of electricity has pitched Carlos Ghosn’s former defence lawyer into a landmark constitutional clash with Japan’s justice system.
Russel Wong In Kyoto/ Life in Endo
Alan Algee - Oct 05
A video made in Collaboration with Russel Wong's In Kyoto/ Life in Endo Exhibition in Singapore's Asian Civilisations Museum.
Japan's Arcades are DISAPPEARING --- Is it Time to Say Goodbye?
Tokyo Lens - Oct 04
In Japan, arcades are called 'Game Centers' - and they are disappearing at an alarming rate.
Saitama's new ordinance banning walking on escalators gets off to a standing start
Japan Today - Oct 02
The Saitama prefectural government poster reads, "On the escalator, stay put! It's required. The first ordinance in Japan!! Let it begin from Saitama Prefecture.
