JAPAN TIMES
 
The ruling and opposition parties are unlikely to reach an agreement during the current parliamentary session over measures to secure a sufficient number of imperial family members, sources said Wednesday.
This is mainly because the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of...

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CNA
 
A Japanese property developer has decided to demolish a near-complete, 10-storey condominium in Tokyo after pushback from neighbours who said it blocked a view of Mount Fuji.
The company Sekisui House said in a statement late on Tuesday (Jun 11) that it had "voluntarily decided to discontin...

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KYODO NEWS
 
A former counselor at the Singapore Embassy returned to Japan in June to be questioned by police over allegations he secretly took images of a naked schoolboy at a public bath in Tokyo, police said Thursday.
Sim Siong Chye, a 55-year-old former counselor who had been asked by police ...

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JAPAN TIMES
 
Tokyo police have arrested 26 people in a side job fraud case in which a total of ¥1.91 billion or more is believed to have been taken from about 8,600 victims across Japan.
The Metropolitan Police Department has also searched a total of 11 locations in Tokyo and four other prefectu...

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VARIETY
 
 
“Sky Castle,” one of the most iconic Korean TV drama series of recent years, is to be remade by TV Asahi in Japan.
The move follows the signing of a cooperation agreement between Korean content powerhouse SLL (previously known as JTBC Studios) and TV Asahi just last month. The two com...

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HURRIYET DAILY NEWS
 
The United States needs Japan's help to quickly replenish missile inventory and repair warships as conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine continue and Washington seeks to keep its deterrence credible in the Indo-Pacific, the U.S. ambassador to Japan said.
"It is clear that...

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JAPAN TIMES
 
The proportion of Japanese working adults who sleep five hours or less a day stood at 11.5%, down by roughly half from 25 years ago, according to a recent survey by Citizen Watch.
The share of such people stood at 22.8% in the 1999 survey.
The health ministry recommends at least six...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
A tall metal fence will be built to control unruly tourists who have annoyed locals at a popular Mount Fuji photo spot, a Japanese official said Thursday.
It follows the construction last month of a black screen in another nearby town to block an Instagram-famous view of the snow-ca...

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TEMPO
 
Indonesia is the second-largest exporter of ornamental fish in the world after Japan, said Budi Sulistyo, Director General of Marine Fishery Products Competitiveness at the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries.
Budi believed that the country could become the world’s top exporter of su...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
UFO sightings should not be dismissed out of hand because they could in fact be surveillance drones or weapons, say Japanese lawmakers who launched a group on Thursday to probe the matter.
The non-partisan group, which counts former defense ministers among its 80-plus members, will ...

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