News On Japan

Hokkaido Prefectural Police have arrested a 45-year-old man in a series of tire thefts in Kushiro City, reports TV Asahi. (tokyoreporter.com)

Japan's Defense Minister Tomomi Inada has given a farewell address to a Self-Defense Force unit that will leave on Sunday for South Sudan for a UN peacekeeping mission. (NHK)

A man died after a rifle discharged from the back of a truck and struck him during a deer hunt in Takizawa City, police said on Saturday. (tokyoreporter.com)

Speculators are descending on Tokyo again. Not the currency kind, but activist bond traders testing how tolerant the Bank of Japan is about rising yields. Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda's answer: not very. (Japan Times)

A project will kick off in Fukushima Prefecture this winter to lure more foreign tourists to its snowy hills and mountains to help revitalize depopulated regions. (Japan Times)

A van carrying Princess Kiko and her son, Prince Hisahito, 10, hit a car stuck in a traffic jam on an expressway near Tokyo Sunday morning. (Japan Times)

A man forced his 3-month-old baby girl's leg against the wall until her thigh bone broke because she wouldn't stop crying, police said on Saturday. (tokyoreporter.com)

November 18, 1927 marked the first appearance of the world's most famous mouse Mickey, and Disney parks around the world are celebrating the date in their own way. Disney Japan not only wished him a happy birthday on their official Twitter account, but also created a heartwarming music video to highlight the occasion. (rocketnews24.com)

Go master Cho Chikun on Sunday lost his second game with DeepZenGo, a Japanese artificial intelligence program, in a three-game match that began the previous day. (Jiji)

Shimane Prefectural Police have launched an investigation after three persons were found dead in and around a vehicle parked in Izumo City in what is believed to have been a group suicide, reports TV Asahi. (tokyoreporter.com)

Hokkaido Prefectural Police have arrested a 23-year-old man in the robbery and murder of his great-grandmother last year in Monbetsu City, reports Nippon News Network (Nov. 20). (tokyoreporter.com)

A Japanese man in his 20s was shot dead in the Colombian city of Medellin on Saturday, local media reported. (Japan Times)

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin have held talks ahead of their summit in December. Abe later told reporters he wants to make steady progress in peace treaty negotiations with Russia. (NHK)

One of Tokyo's most famous food alleys is at Shinjuku's West gate where loads of yakitori and motsunabe restaurants date back to the late 1940s. It's a street food paradise where you can see and smell the grilling and frying -- hungry, you will be! (ONLY in JAPAN)

An 18-year-old male university student hiking up Mount Fuji died in a fall near the 3,776-meter summit while a member of his group remains missing, Shizuoka Prefectural Police said on Sunday, reports NHK. (tokyoreporter.com)

A recent controversy surrounding the suicide of a young worker at Japanese advertising giant Dentsu has cast a spotlight on the often gruelling labor conditions under which many toil in the country. (Japan Today)

Authorities in Fukuoka Prefecture, western Japan, are inspecting a university hospital where a puncture was found in an intravenous drip bag on Sunday. (NHK)

Cultural assets at a well-known Buddhist temple in the ancient capital of Nara, western Japan, have been tainted with an unidentified liquid. (NHK)

Japan is calling on Sailor Moon to rally young women to get tested for early detection of sexually transmitted diseases through posters and condoms in heart-shaped packaging. (tokyoreporter.com)

The Japan Business Federation, or Keidanren, called on the Japanese government Monday to take measures to allow more foreigners to work in Japan to help promote research and development efforts and ease labor shortages in domestic industries. (Jiji)

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