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Tokyo remains, in the world’s imagination, a place of sophistication and wealth. But with economic revival forever distant, ‘tourism pollution’ seems the only viable plan The yen is low, and everybody is coming to Tokyo. If that sounds familiar, it’s n…
続きを読むComing of Age Day is celebrated in Japan every January, when those becoming adults dress in formal kimonos, pray at shrines and hear speeches about their new responsibilities. Thousands attended a ceremony in Yohohama Continue reading…
続きを読むJapanese police say 22-year-old woman arrested as witness describes panic after attacker ‘all of a sudden’ began swinging hammer in classroomEight Tokyo university students attacked with a hammer in a classroom were recuperating and none required hospi…
続きを読むUS authorities charged Takeshi Ebisawa with conspiring to traffic nuclear materials from Myanmar for expected use by Iran in nuclear weaponsA member of the Japanese criminal underworld has pleaded guilty to handling nuclear material sourced from Myanm…
続きを読むOnodera Group paid second highest price ever at prestigious annual new year auction at Tokyo’s main fish marketThe top bidder at a Tokyo fish market has paid $1.3m for a tuna, the second highest price ever paid at an annual prestigious new year auction…
続きを読むItooka, who died at a care home in Ashiya, enjoyed bananas and had been a keen mountain climberA Japanese woman who was the world’s oldest living person has died at the age of 116.Tomiko Itooka, who was awarded the Guinness World Record status last yea…
続きを読むAbout 807,800 Australians visited Japan between January and November this year, nearly 200,000 more than the previous record in 2019Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastJapan’s tourism board has urged holidaymakers to swap Tokyo a…
続きを読むFamous for felines that outnumber its humans, Aoshima is also emblematic of a deeper trend afflicting the country’s rural and island communitiesThe reason for Aoshima’s nickname was clear before we had set foot on the island. As our tiny vessel slowed …
続きを読むAuthorities relax laws to make it easier for hunters to carry out ‘emergency shootings’ when bears are spotted in populated areasJapan is to relax its strict hunting laws to make it easier to shoot bears, amid a rise in dangerous encounters with the an…
続きを読むJapan’s complex defence alliances built up over years as protection against China could be put at risk in a Trump-launched trade warArguably, no country in Asia has better reason to be in a state of anxiety over the return of Donald Trump to the White …
続きを読むUS-Canadian founder of Sea Shepherd, who was arrested in Greenland in July, will now spend Christmas with his sonsPaul Watson, the anti-whaling campaigner, has spoken of delight that he will be reunited with his young children for Christmas after Denma…
続きを読むThe character, chosen by public vote, has won in previous Olympic years but also reflects public anger at a damaging financial scandal inside the ruling Liberal Democratic partyThe kanji character kin – which can mean gold or money – has been chosen as…
続きを読むRice wine enshrined as part of ‘cultural heritage of humanity’ Sake is perhaps more Japanese than the world-famous sushi. It’s brewed in centuries-old mountaintop warehouses, savoured in the country’s pub-like izakayas, poured during weddings and serve…
続きを読むDonna Nelson sentenced to six years in prison after court finds her guilty of bringing methamphetamine into countryGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe jailing of an Australian woman in Japan is “really distressing” for her fa…
続きを読むPolice said 86cm stainless steel blade – mounted on a wooden plaque and sold in the hundreds – contravened Japan’s firearms and sword control lawFull-size replica swords sold as souvenirs at a popular Harry Potter exhibition in Tokyo have fallen foul o…
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