News On Japan

Chiba Prefectural Police have arrested a male temporary worker in Narita City suspected in the abuse of everal cats, video footage of which was posted online, reports the Asahi Shimbun. (tokyoreporter.com)

Gunma Prefectural Police are seeking the help of the public in locating a Vietnamese national who escaped custody in the town of Oizumi on Thursday, reports TBS News. (tokyoreporter.com)

The hunting season for dolphins using a controversial "drive-hunting" method began in the whaling town of Taiji in western Japan on Friday, but an approaching typhoon forced the hunt to be called off on the first day without a catch. (Japan Today)

Tokyo Metropolitan Police have arrested a 31-year-old company employee for allegedly splashing bodily fluid on a school girl in Katsushika Ward earlier this year, reports TBS News. (tokyoreporter.com)

Chiba Prefectural Police have arrested two women in the quick-strike theft of nearly two billion yen from ATMs nationwide last year, reports TV Asahi. (tokyoreporter.com)

Japan, the United States, South Korea and seven other economies agreed on Friday to introduce a new rule of changing catch quotas for bluefin tuna in the western Pacific, including waters around Japan, depending on the degree of stock recovery. (Jiji)

Many thought this car didn't even exist. Ferrari had, in fact, only ever commissioned one street version of its Daytona with a full aluminum body. (CNN)

The Democratic Party faces a critical challenge of reviving the largest Japanese opposition party under its new head, Seiji Maehara, but the road ahead him is very tough after as many as eight DP lawmakers cast invalid votes in Friday's leadership election for the party. (Jiji)

A 37-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of drugging a four-year-old girl with a narcotic that induced sleep and impaired the young victim's state of consciousness in Fukuoka. (Japan Today)

As Japan's schools reopened Friday after summer holidays, a day when suicides among young people spike, celebrities reached out to at-risk children and one Tokyo zoo offered refuge to nervous pupils in a bid to tackle the mental health crisis. (Japan Today)

A duty-free store for people who have just arrived in Japan, the first of such store in the country, opened on Friday at Narita International Airport, near Tokyo. (Jiji)

The government will ease regulations so that passenger cars can be filled with gasoline directly from tanker trucks during disasters. The move is to prevent severe fuel shortages like the one that occurred after the Great East Japan Earthquake. (the-japan-news.com)

North Korea has warned Japan over its plan to introduce a land-based version of the Aegis ballistic missile defense system to address Pyongyang's missile threats. (NHK)

Police on Saturday arrested a 35-year-old Filipino man on suspicions including murder over a 2004 case in which a female Japanese university student in Ibaraki Prefecture, eastern Japan, was strangled. (Jiji)

Japan's Imperial Household Agency announced on Sunday the informal engagement of Princess Mako, the first grandchild of Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko, to former university classmate and commoner Kei Komuro. (Jiji)

Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono says the government has confirmed that North Korea conducted a nuclear test on Sunday. (NHK)

A test of self-driving bus services organized by the transport ministry kicked off at a michi no eki roadside rest area in Tochigi Prefecture on Saturday. (Japan Times)

Osaka Prefectural Police have arrested a 65-year-old woman who is suspected of abandoning a body believed to belong to her sister at a residence in Kadoma City over two years ago, reports TV Asahi (tokyoreporter.com)

The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism has issued a warning to all bus companies due to multiple incidents of expressway buses being parked for prolonged hours within the vicinity of the Shinjuku Expressway Bus Terminal near Shinjuku train station. (Japan Today)

North Korea took the unusual step of announcing Sunday's nuclear test by first releasing a photo of what it claimed was a hydrogen bomb. (NHK)

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