News On Japan

Crown Princess Mary and Crown Prince Frederik's three-day tour of Japan came to an end on Saturday and the couple were bid farewell by the Emperor and Empress of Japan. (hellomagazine.com)

People walk under the cherry blossoms on Saturday at Ueno Park in Taito Ward, Tokyo. (The Japan News)

Police in Chofu, Tokyo, said Sunday they have arrested an unemployed 43-year-old man on suspicion of fatally stabbing a 63-year-old woman as she walked home on Saturday night. (Japan Today)

In October of last year, weekly tabloid Shukan Jitsuwa reported on the recent increase in the number of Chinese tourists visiting Osaka's Tobita Shinchi red-light district. (Tokyo Reporter)

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Monday he had spoken with South Korean President Park Geun Hye in Singapore and requested that South Korea arrange a trilateral summit with China at an early date. (Kyodo)

Cherry blossoms were in full bloom in Tokyo and in Fukuoka City, southern Japan, on Sunday. The flowers have bloomed 5 days earlier than usual in Tokyo and 3 days earlier in Fukuoka. (NHK)

In the first application in Tokyo of a law that seeks to restrict the distribution of sexually explicit content for revenge purposes, police on Friday announced the arrest of a 50-year-old male for releasing illicit images of his former girlfriend, reports the Sankei Shimbun (March 27). (Tokyo Reporter)

Tokyo stocks rose on Monday, as a major rally in Shanghai shares and dip-buying after two days of brisk selling helped prop up the major indexes. (dailytelegraph.com.au)

AUSTIN, Texas--Teenage track sensation Yoshihide Kiryu has become the first Japanese to clock a time under 10 seconds in the 100-meter sprint with a wind-assisted mark of 9.87 seconds. (Asahi)

The head of Tokyo's organizing committee for the 2020 Olympics says he intends to continue working following an operation to treat lung cancer. (Japan Today)

Honda Motor Co. said Monday it will release the S660 two-seater on Thursday, the company's first convertible sports minicar in 19 years. (The Japan News)

Police in Fukuoka said Monday they have arrested an assistant professor at Fukuoka University for trying to kill his wife. (Japan Today)

Spotify is coming to the PlayStation, replacing Sony's own Music Unlimited service, as the company continues to expand the game console into an entertainment hub beyond video games. (Japan Today)

Japan's government is considering raising income taxes for the wealthy and increasing the inheritance tax if it looks unlikely to reach its goal of returning to a primary budget surplus in 2020, government sources said. (Reuters)

A third-party committee investigating the deaths of 11 patients who received laparoscopic surgery at the Chiba Cancer Center said Monday that at least seven patients received treatment without prior ethical screening despite the extremely difficult nature of the operations, which were not covered by public health insurance. (The Japan News)

An elementary school teacher in Hyuga, Miyazaki Prefecture, has been arrested after it was discovered that he had lied to a newspaper reporter regarding the presence of a foreign substance in a rice ball ("onigiri") lunch that he purchased at a convenience store. (Japan Today)

The defense chiefs of Japan and India agreed Monday to continue talks over potential exports of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force's US-2 amphibious aircraft to the South Asian country. (Kyodo)

The Japanese government said Monday it will send up to 142,600 personnel in emergency teams within 72 hours to 10 prefectures that are expected to suffer tremendous damage in the event of a major earthquake at the Nankai Trough off Japan's Pacific coast. (Jiji Press)

Yahoo Japan has unveiled new rules for removing certain personal information that appears in its search results upon request. The privacy policy includes information that could pose a risk to a person's life. (NHK)

Tokyo stocks fell 1.05 percent Tuesday as profit-taking erased early gains on the last day of the Japanese financial year, but the Nikkei index still booked a 10 percent gain over the quarter. (Global Post)

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