News On Japan

The operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant says it suspended a survey by a robot at one of its reactors after the device stopped working. (NHK)

Two male doctors and and a medical student allegedly gang-raped an unconscious teenage girl after forcing her to drink alcohol in an apartment rented specifically to sexually assault women, police said on Thursday. (tokyoreporter.com)

The driver of a train was injured after the body of a man who jumped from a station platform shattered the glass of the carriage in a likely suicide, police said on Wednesday, reports the Sankei Shimbun (tokyoreporter.com)

Internal Affairs Ministry officials say household spending in Japan in 2016 dropped 1.7 % in yen terms from the previous year. It marks the third-consecutive annual decline. (NHK)

A Japanese sushi chef who had worked for North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's late father for more than a decade has opened his own restaurant in Pyongyang, people with knowledge of the situation said Friday. (Japan Today)

The Osaka District Court on Friday sentenced a 51-year-old man to 10 years in prison for killing two people, after he suffered a bout of epilepsy while driving his minivan in Higashi-Osaka in 2015. (Japan Today)

A Japanese private school operator linked to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe bought state-owned land for 134 million yen, some 800 million yen lower than the appraised value, according to government statements during a parliamentary panel session Friday. (Jiji)

Gusty spring winds brought unseasonably warm weather to Tokyo and other parts of Japan on Friday. (NHK)

Japan's SoftBank Group Corp is prepared to give up control of Sprint Corp to Deutsche Telekom AG's T-Mobile US Inc to clinch a merger of the two U.S. wireless carriers, according to people familiar with the matter. (Reuters)

Police in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, said Saturday they have arrested an unemployed 39-year-old man on suspicion of killing a 23-year-old woman in her apartment last June. (Japan Today)

The haunting silhouette of Hashima Island, known in English as Battleship Island, rises up from the sea, an abandoned testament to what was once the most densely populated city on Earth. (Japan Times)

Police have arrested two Vietnamese for allegedly growing marijuana at the apartment of one of the suspects in Gunma Prefecture, and have confiscated 400 marijuana plants. (Japan Today)

A record-high 3.67 billion yen ($32.5 million) in cash was found and reported as lost property in Tokyo last year, topping the level marked nearly 30 years earlier when the Japanese economy was experiencing a bubble, police say. (Japan Today)

In preparation for the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2020, the Fire and Disaster Management Agency is planning to provide 24-hour foreign language services for 119 emergency calls nationwide. (the-japan-news.com)

An 18-year-old boy has been arrested for allegedly stealing a road bicycle and riding it about 900 kilometers from Osaka Prefecture to Aomori Prefecture in the north, police said Saturday. (Japan Today)

An elementary school in western Japan says it plans to use a software application to prevent online bullying. (NHK)

A university hospital chief accused of falsifying a diagnosis report for a yakuza boss to keep him out of prison admitted they dined together several times, TV Asahi reported on Saturday (tokyoreporter.com)

More than 5,000 people attended a memorial ceremony in Darwin, northern Australia, on Sunday to remember the victims of Japan's World War II airstrike against the city 75 years ago. (Jiji)

At least 12 cases of arson involving small trucks, motorbikes, bicycles and vacant houses have been reported in Tokyo's Kita and Adachi wards since Friday. (Japan Today)

Education officials in Tachikawa City revealed on Sunday that over 940 students and teachers suffered food-poisoning symptoms last week, with the outbreak likely being due to the eating of tainted school lunches. (tokyoreporter.com)

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