RRI
 
The Indonesian Ministry of Home Affairs is leveraging the ASEAN-Japan Smart Cities Network High-Level Meeting in Takamatsu City, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan, to broaden opportunities for smart city cooperation.
Indonesia's delegation was led by Safrizal Zakaria Ali, the Director General of Reg...

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CAPITAL FM
 
Usually about half of the patients lose their lives, according to Gu Jin, director of the colorectal cancer surgery at Beijing Cancer Hospital.
Chinese colorectal cancer patients may not have to give up treatment even if they are at an advanced age or in the late stage, as overseas s...

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YAHOO
 
Championship-chasing Elfyn Evans cut the gap on Rally Japan leader Sebastien Ogier after Saturday's third day to leave the world title race poised on a knife edge.
Welshman Evans started the day 10.2 seconds behind France's Ogier but he ended it 6.5sec off the pace after a day of hard-cha...

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VOI ID
 
McDonald's fast food chain in Japan plans to stop using work straws around 3,000 outlets across Japan, responding to customer dissatisfaction with the drinking experience.
McDonald's will stop using the paper straw, which was introduced in 2022, by starting using a new design of drink ca...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
On a quiet street in Tokyo's Jimbocho district, known for its secondhand bookstores and publishing houses, one shop stands out: Chekccori.
The store's shelves are lined with Korean literature translated into Japanese, as well as works in the original language. It has become a gather...

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NIPPON
 
Japan's Fiscal System Council, which advises the finance minister, proposed at a subcommittee meeting on Friday that the government considers sales of minimum access rice for staple food as long as they do not affect markets.
Currently, the Japanese government sells most such rice at low...

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RRI
 
The 2025 Japanese Film Festival (JFF) officially opened on Thursday, November 6, 2025, as a cultural platform aimed at deepening ties between Indonesia and Japan. 
This year’s edition features 15 carefully curated films spanning diverse genres and themes, screened in nine major cities acros...

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JAPAN NEWS
 
The number of visitors to the exhibition “Expressing Prayer, Capturing Form: Buddhist Sculptures by Unkei from the Northern Round Hall of Kohfukuji Temple” at the Tokyo National Museum in Taito Ward, Tokyo, surpassed 200,000 on Wednesday.
The museum celebrated the occasion with a cer...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Wednesday pledged continued support for Ukraine in its fight against Russia's invasion during her first phone talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy since taking office last month.
During the 30-minute conversation, Takaichi said...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
Film critics and commentators have often drawn parallels between "My Neighbor Totoro" and aspects of Japan’s religious beliefs and folklore, particularly the concept of spirits and deities being present in the natural environment.
But while the title character is a forest spirit, an...

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