News On Japan

Police have arrested a 50-year-old man on suspicion of cutting a schoolgirl's skirt on a train at JR Minami-Urawa Station in Saitama Prefecture. (Japan Today)

One-way reserved-seat tickets for the full section of the Hokuriku Shinkansen bullet train line between Tokyo and Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, will cost less than those of flights connecting the Japanese capital with Komatsu in the same central prefecture, it was learned Friday. (Jiji Press)

When you speak to foreign English educators in Japan, one thing becomes crystal clear: English education in Japan isn't working. (rocketnews24.com)

Zookeepers in Japan have learned that-without a female-one plus one is always two, never three or more. (Wall Street Journal)

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told a key Diet session Friday that the Asahi Shimbun's erroneous reports on so-called wartime comfort women led to the prevailing global misperception that Japan as a state was involved in making them sexual slaves. (The Japan News)

Japan's upper house of parliament, often called the chamber of wisdom, has been rocked by a dress code row after a minister appeared sporting a red scarf. (channelnewsasia.com)

Police in Tokyo are intensifying their crackdown on hallucinogenic herbs that contain chemicals similar to illegal narcotics. (NHK)

Japanese telecom giant NTT is working to provide foreign visitors with better tourist information, with an eye toward the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. (NHK)

Members of the imperial family gathered for a special rite ahead of Princess Noriko's wedding this weekend to the son of a Shinto priest. (Asahi)

The government decided at a Cabinet meeting Friday to extend $22 million in emergency grant aid for combating the spread of Ebola hemorrhagic fever. (The Japan News)

A 31-year-old woman was arrested Saturday on suspicion of leaving the dead body of her newborn son in a "baby hatch" at a hospital in the city of Kumamoto. (Japan Times)

A select group of visitors got a rare chance to see inside the Imperial Palace in central Tokyo. (NHK)

The Japanese government hopes to make it at least a little bit quicker for foreign visitors to get through immigration. (Nikkei)

HAMAMATSU, Shizuoka Prefecture--The roofs are warped, the pillars twisted, and ghoulish creatures appear here and there. A gnarled tree seems to be hugging one of the walls. (Asahi)

The Japanese government will allow Indonesian nationals to enter the country visa-free. (NHK)

Lewis Hamilton took one of his greatest victories to win the Japanese Grand Prix in wet conditions and extend his world championship lead. (BBC)

Princess Noriko on Sunday married the eldest son of the head priest of the Izumo Taisha grand shrine in Shimane Prefecture, thereby relinquishing her royal status. (Japan Times)

U.S. Open runner-up Kei Nishikori beat the No. 3-seeded Milos Raonic of Canada 7-6 (7-5), 4-6, 6-4 in the final of the Japan Open on Sunday to win his fourth ATP Tour title of the season. (The Japan News)

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has expressed his hope that Japan will use technological innovation to tackle the challenges it faces. (NHK)

The father of a 16-year-old girl who was arrested in July in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, on suspicion of killing and dismembering a female classmate, was found dead Sunday in an apparent suicide, police said. (Japan Times)

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