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Japan Crown Prince, Crown Princess Return from Trip to Norway
2+ day, 19+ hour ago (169+ words) nippon.com - Japan Crown Prince, Crown Princess Return from Trip to Norway Tokyo, Sept. 10 (Jiji Press)--Japan's Crown Prince Akishino and Crown Princess Kiko arrived at Tokyo's Haneda Airport aboard a government plane on Thursday after attending a funeral for…...
Child Abuse Deaths in Japan Rise to 77 in FY 2024
3+ day, 48+ min ago (171+ words) Tokyo, Sept. 10 (Jiji Press)--The number of children who died from abuse in Japan in fiscal 2024 rose by 12 from the previous year to 77, an expert panel of the Children and Families Agency said Thursday. Excluding family suicide cases, the figure…...
Japan Eyes Stronger Regulations over???Dark Pattern??? User Interfaces
3+ day, 1+ hour ago (185+ words) Japan Eyes Stronger Regulations over “Dark Pattern” User Interfaces nippon.com - Japan Eyes Stronger Regulations over “Dark Pattern” User Interfaces Tokyo, Sept. 10 (Jiji Press)--Japan’s Consumer Affairs Agency plans to comprehensively strengthen regulations over “dark patterns,” or website designs and…...
Legendary Baseball Hitter Isao Harimoto Dies at 86
3+ day, 4+ hour ago (172+ words) Tokyo, Sept. 10 (Jiji Press)--Isao Harimoto, the first and only player in the history of Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball Organization, or NPB, to achieve more than 3,000 career hits, died on Wednesday afternoon, it was learned Thursday. He was 86. Harimoto collected…...
Self-Harm Cases, Suicide Attempts on Rise in Japan
3+ day, 3+ hour ago (182+ words) Tokyo, Sept. 10 (Jiji Press)--The number of people transported by ambulance due to self-harm and suicide attempts is on an upward trend in Japan, reaching 43,631 cases in 2025, a survey showed Thursday. The survey, released on World Suicide Prevention Day, was…...
FOCUS: Tokyo Museum Preserves Memories of Students Killed in War
3+ day, 8+ hour ago (537+ words) Tokyo, Sept. 10 (Jiji Press)--In 1944, as World War II entered its final stages, Itaru Maruo was a promising student at an elite university, dreaming of a career in art. Then the Imperial Japanese military called him up. Deployed to China…...
Sake from Yamaguchi Pref. Wins Top Award in Int'l Contest
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (468+ words) London, Sept. 8 (Jiji Press)--Sake from Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan, won the top prize in the Japanese rice wine category at the annual International Wine Challenge, one of the world's largest wine competitions, on Tuesday. The 2026 Champion Sake award went…...
Aviation Proposed for Japan's New Foreign Worker Program
3+ day, 22+ hour ago (151+ words) Tokyo, Sept. 9 (Jiji Press)--The Japanese government proposed Wednesday that the aviation sector be added to a new "employment for skill development" program for foreign workers that will start in April 2027 to replace the technical intern training program. The government…...
JR East to Adopt New Suica Character to Succeed Penguin
4+ day, 10+ hour ago (155+ words) Tokyo, Sept. 9 (Jiji Press)--East Japan Railway Co., or JR East, has unveiled images of three candidate characters for its Suica smart card system to succeed the current character based on a penguin. The three candidates--a brown squirrel, a…...
S. Korea to Skip Sado Mine Memorial Service for 3rd Year
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (122+ words) Seoul, Sept. 9 (Jiji Press)--South Korea will not send officials to Saturday's memorial service at the Sado Island Gold Mines, a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site in Niigata Prefecture, central Japan, it was learned Wednesday. It will be the third…...