THE JAPAN NEWS
 
NAHA — The fire that engulfed Shuri Castle on Thursday is believed to have started inside the Seiden main hall, given two shutters at the entrance to the hall were found to have been locked, the Okinawa prefectural police and others said Friday.
Prefectural police and the Naha Fi...

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NHK
 
A fire is raging at Shuri Castle, a UNESCO's World Heritage site in the southern prefecture of Okinawa. It started early Thursday morning. Fire trucks have rushed to the scene.
The Naha city fire department says it received an emergency call reporting a fire at the castle at about 2:40 a.m....

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JAPAN TIMES
 
Akira Yoshino, one of three winners of this year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry, and five other people were selected as this year’s recipients of the Order of Culture, the government said Tuesday.
Others receiving Japan’s top cultural award are kyogen actor Nomura Man, 89, political sci...

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CNA
 
TOKYO: On a wooded lake shore in northern Japan, the government is building a modernist shrine that has divided the indigenous Ainu community whose vanishing culture it was designed to celebrate.
At a cost so far of US$220 million, Japan's "Symbolic Space for Ethnic Harmony" is on track to ...

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BBC
 
A parade celebrating the formal ascension of Japan's Emperor Naruhito has been postponed in the wake of Typhoon Hagibis.
The parade, which sees the emperor travel in an open-top car to "meet" the public, was postponed out of respect for the victims and their families.
The typhoon, which str...

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NHK
 
NHK has learned that Japan's government is considering postponing for the time being the celebratory procession in Tokyo that had been scheduled to take place after the Emperor's enthronement ceremony on Tuesday next week.
The government cites the need to deal with the extensive damage caus...

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CHANNEL NEWS ASIA
 
 
TOKYO: Rescuers in Japan were working around the clock Tuesday (Oct 15) in an increasingly desperate search for survivors of a powerful weekend typhoon that killed more than 70 people and caused widespread destruction.
Hagibis slammed into Japan on Saturday night, unleashing...

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CBS NEWS
 
Superstar tennis player Naomi Osaka said Thursday she intends to represent Japan at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo next year. The two-time Grand Slam champion will give up her U.S. citizenship to play for her birth country in her Olympic debut. 
Osaka currently holds dual nationalit...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
TOKYO - Kansai Electric Power Co said Wednesday two executives who were responsible for its nuclear business both received more than 100 million yen as gifts from a former official of a town hosting one of its nuclear plants, as the utility disclosed additional information on the mo...

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ASAHI
 
UNITED NATIONS--Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday expressed concerns about the Middle East situation and urged Iran to take actions "grounded in the wisdom derived from its rich history."
In a speech to the United Nations General Assembly, Abe called the Sept. 15 attacks on Saudi oil f...

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