News On Japan

A man claiming to have escaped North Korea was found wandering Saturday in Yamaguchi Prefecture in western Japan, police and government officials said. (Japan Today)

Tottori Prefectural Police have discovered an infant at the residence of a 35-year-old woman who is already in custody for dumping the body of another baby, reports the Nihonkai Shimbun (July 16). (Tokyo Reporter)

A moderately strong earthquake rattled the Tokyo region on Sunday afternoon, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. (Japan Today)

In the years immediately following the war, the school lunch program adopted in Japan's public schools spawned a generation of well-nourished children, and must be credited at least in part for helping to double life expectancy figures since 1945. (Japan Today)

Japan's Education Minister Hiroshi Hase says the government is pleased that UNESCO has recognized buildings designed by Le Corbusier as important assets from the 20th century. (NHK)

Police served a further arrest warrant Sunday on a 16-year-old boy in Ibaraki Prefecture for allegedly killing a woman by repeatedly stabbing her. (Japan Today)

Nine beaches in Ibaraki Prefecture were reopened to the public over the weekend after being closed a year ago due to repeated shark sightings. (Japan Today)

Two women were killed by an express train in Ishii, Tokushima Prefecture, police said Sunday. (Japan Today)

The head of the developer behind Nintendo Co Ltd's Pokemon GO says he wants to launch the smash-hit mobile game in roughly 200 countries and regions "relatively soon" and was working on bolstering server capacity to enable the wider rollout. (Japan Today)

Japan's SoftBank Group has agreed to acquire the U.K.'s ARM Holdings for more than $30 billion, the Financial Times and Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. (Nikkei)

Deer have been summoned from the woods in a ceremony at a park in Japan's ancient capital of Nara. (NHK)

A UNESCO committee on Sunday added the main building of the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo and 16 other buildings designed by French architect Le Corbusier to the world body's list of cultural heritage sites. (Jiji Press)

A runway was closed at one of Tokyo's main airports Monday after a Hawaiian Airlines jet punctured its tires while making an emergency landing, forcing the cancellation of some domestic Japanese flights. (Japan Today)

An elderly man groped the thighs of a woman who was snoozing on the train on Sunday - and soon ended up in police custody after she turned out to be an off-duty officer. (Tokyo Reporter)

Japanese high school students won three gold medals in the International Physics Olympiad, or IphO, the education ministry has said. (Jiji Press)

The rainy season appears to be over in western and central Japan as well as Kyushu, the Meteorological Agency said Monday. (Japan Times)

An extra second will be added to clocks around the world at the start of next year. This will be the first such adjustment since July 2015. (NHK)

Japanese policymakers, who won't go as far as funding government spending through direct debt monetisation, might pursue a mix of aggressive fiscal and monetary expansion to battle deflation, say sources familiar with the matter. (Reuters)

Japan Tobacco Inc. is quietly invading U.S. tobacco country with a new low-price cigarette brand. (wsj.com)

This week, authorities lifted an evacuation order for nearly all parts of Minamisoma city, Fukushima prefecture, allowing more than 10,000 people to return to their homes for the first time since 2011's nuclear disaster. (aljazeera.com)

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