News On Japan

More than 400 people canceled reservations at hotels and inns in Aso, Kumamoto Prefecture, on Tuesday, a day after Mount Aso erupted and turned the sky ashen. Businesses relying on tourism voiced concern about the financial fallout. (Japan Times)

Officials of Ibaraki Prefecture say all 15 Joso City residents who couldn't be contacted after last week's floods were found unharmed on Tuesday. (NHK)

First impressions count in the real estate business, which explains why home staging services are spreading in Japan's used housing market. (The Japan News)

A rental service for multi-language tablets is being developed for noh theaters featuring dialogue and relevant information, in a bid to make one of Japan's traditional performing arts more accessible for newcomers and foreign tourists. (The Japan News)

People opposed to the national security bills rallied in front of the Diet Building in Tokyo. (NHK)

Japan's 2nd-largest meat processor, Itoham Foods, and the 7th-largest, Yonekyu, are planning a merger of their managements. They expect to establish a holding company next April. (NHK)

An airplane that is believed to be Russian on Tuesday entered Japanese airspace off the Nemuro Peninsula in Hokkaido, northernmost Japan, the Defense Ministry said. (Jiji Press)

Police have arrested a 57-year-old woman after she turned herself in at a police station, saying she had killed her father over a year ago and kept his remains in a storeroom. (Japan Today)

Japan will provide additional used patrol vessels to Vietnam to help the Southeast Asian country strengthen its maritime security, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Tuesday. (Jiji Press)

Police have arrested a 42-year-old Tokyo man for his suspected involvement in one of a series of fires that broke out last month along several railway lines in the capital. (NHK)

Japan's Silver Week holiday exodus got under way on Saturday with trains and planes reporting full loads. (Japan Today)

For those planning to go on vacation and having difficulty making travel plans, help is at hand in the form of many useful websites. (The Japan News)

An hourglass at a museum in Shimane Prefecture that measures the duration of a year has been recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's largest, the museum said Sunday. (Japan Times)

A survey shows hourly wages of part-time workers in Japan registered a record high in August for the third month in a row due to labor shortages. (NHK)

Public support for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's cabinet took a beating after the rushed passage of unpopular national security bills in parliament Saturday, with many voters complaining about the lack of explanation from the government, the latest Nikkei opinion poll showed. (Nikkei)

A 49-year-old man admitted Sunday that he was responsible for crashing a drone on Saturday into Himeji Castle, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Hyogo Prefecture, the police said. (Japan Today)

The number of people aged 80 or older in Japan topped 10 million for the first time as of Tuesday, a government estimated released Sunday showed. (Jiji Press)

Free legal advice and sporting events are among the activities being held to celebrate Respect for the Aged Day, which is observed on the third Monday of September. (NHK)

A plan is under way to designate Tokyo's Ueno Park area, with its concentration of museums and galleries, as a "cultural forest" and promote it to the world as an international cultural hub leading up to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics. (The Japan News)

Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov agreed Monday to resume high-level talks in October between their diplomats to make progress over a long-standing bilateral dispute. (Kyodo)

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