SORA NEWS
 
Tokyo’s long-time-coming long goodbye to the Ueno monorail.
Japan is a country crisscrossed by a seemingly limitless number of train and subway lines.
Monorails, though, are harder to find, and they’re going to get a little harder still following an announcement from the Tokyo Metropo...

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AKIPRESS
 
Co-Chairs of the Turkmen-Japanese and Japanese-Turkmen Committees on Economic Cooperation R. Meredov and H. Tsubai held talks on November 15, the Foreign Ministry of Turkmenistan reported.
They exchanged views on key areas of the current cooperation agenda, as well as a wide range of i...

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REUTERS
 
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said they would pursue mutually beneficial relations in their first face-to-face talks in a year, putting emphasis on shared economic interests amid a series of diplomatic disputes.
The leaders of Asia's two largest ...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Thursday he has been invited by U.S. President Joe Biden to make a state visit early next year, an announcement made as the two countries step up cooperation bilaterally and trilaterally with South Korea in the face of increasing security c...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
A man crashed a car into a barricade near the entrance of the Israel Embassy in Tokyo on Thursday, injuring a police officer.
Police arrested the 53-year-old driver at the scene. He was identified as Shinobu Sekiguchi, a member of a right-wing group, local media reported.
Israel's a...

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BBC
 
A prestigious Japanese all-female theatre company has admitted it feels responsible for the death of a young actress whose suspected suicide was reportedly caused by overwork.
Executives from Takarazuka Revue apologised for "loss of life" but did not announce a compensation package for the ...

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KYODO NEWS
 
Japan saw an estimated 2,516,500 foreign visitors in October, up 0.8 percent from the same month in 2019, the first time the monthly figure has surpassed levels seen before the coronavirus outbreak, government data showed Wednesday.
The increase of visitors from Asia, Australia, part...

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JAPAN NEWS
 
Three senior government officials have quit over scandals just two months after Prime Minister Fumio Kishida reshuffled his Cabinet in September. These “falling-like-dominoes” resignations have thrown the management of the administration into severe disarray.
On Monday, Kishida was f...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
Cormorants have been a constant presence in Yoichiro Adachi's life, and when he was young, he cried whenever one of his family's birds died.
Now 48, Adachi still cares deeply for his birds, drawing them out of their baskets each morning and stroking their long necks to confirm their...

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NIPPON
 
A member of Japan's all-female musical theater company Takarazuka Revue had suffered harassment by senior members before she died, lawyers for the bereaved family said Friday.
The 25-year-old performer was "damaged physically and mentally" also because "she was forced to work extraordina...

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