News On Japan

With less than a month until the track and field competition begins at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, the Japanese delegation for the sport assembled at Tokyo's National Training Center for a send-off event hosted by the Japan Association of Athletics Federations on Friday. (Japan Times)

Tokyo Metropolitan Police have arrested a 34-year-old male restorer of cultural properties for repeatedly stalking a teenage idol, reports TBS News. (Tokyo Reporter)

A consumer group is warning Japanese men to exercise extreme caution before undergoing foreskin surgery after a spate of eye-watering mishaps on the operating table. (Japan Times)

It's always tricky talking with people from foreign countries about bikers in Japan. A far cry from the hulking roughneck riders in works of fiction like Sons of Anarchy or the immortal classic Chopper Chicks in Zombietown, Japan's current crop of bosozoku bikers don't seem quite as fearsome as they used to be and are sometimes just a bunch of teenagers with noisy scooters. (rocketnews24.com)

Aichi Prefectural Police are investigating the shooting death of a person believed to be an organized crime member in Nagoya's Naka Ward, reports NHK (July 15). (Tokyo Reporter)

A Japanese court has sentenced a US Navy sailor to 30 months in prison for raping a Japanese woman at a hotel in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, in March. (NHK)

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang met on the sidelines of an international meeting in Mongolia as Asia's two largest economies try to repair a relationship fractured after Japan sided with the West in the South China Sea dispute. (smh.com.au)

Tokyo Metropolitan Police are questioning a 30-year-old male Chinese national on suspicion of abandoning the body of a woman inside a suitcase that was found floating in canal last month, reports the Yomiuri Shimbun (July 16). (Tokyo Reporter)

Police in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, have arrested a 34-year-old man on suspicion of violating the Stimulants Control Law after traces of an illegal drug were found in the urine of his one-year-old son. (Japan Today)

The head of collapsed Bitcoin exchange MtGox has been released on bail nearly a year after his arrest on embezzlement charges, according to one of his lawyers. (Japan Today)

Former Japanese prime minister Yukio Hatoyama has expressed his willingness to serve on an international advisory committee for the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, AIIB. (NHK)

A government panel has recommended that five artists be named living national treasures, paving the way for their official designation around September. (Japan Today)

Good news! Tokyo Monorail has announced this week that it will be providing free Wi-Fi on the Haneda Airport Line later this year. (rocketnews24.com)

Let's go to Japan, my wife said. 'Why Japan?' I asked. 'Because it's an old civilisation, we see its products everywhere and I don't know anything about it. And, anyway, you love the food.' (dailymail.co.uk)

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expressed his country's support for the Turkish government on Saturday following an attempted military coup there. (Jiji Press)

Volunteers are helping with reconstruction in Japan's Kumamoto Prefecture 3 months after a series of massive earthquakes struck the region. (NHK)

A 27-year-old Japanese has won the first prize in the organ category in an international classical music competition in Germany. Kazuki Tomita became the first Japanese who ranked top in the section of the contest. (NHK)

A government survey on living conditions of households in Japan shows that 60 percent of the respondents are having difficulty making ends meet. (NHK)

The age-old road leading to Kiyomizu Temple had turned into a river of people. Accents and languages from across the world filled the shop-lined slope, as couples in rented kimono took photos with selfie sticks and amateur photographers tried to get a shot devoid of the crowds - a nearly impossible feat. (Japan Times)

The tourism and aviation industries are concerned about the effect of a terrorist attack that occured in Nice, southern France, on Thursday. (the-japan-news.com)

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