カテゴリー: Japan
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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 …
Whaling activist Paul Watson celebrates release from jail after Denmark refuses extradition to Japan
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Authorities in Akita prefecture had struggled to locate the animal, which attacked a man and has eaten large quantities of meat A bear that attacked a supermarket employee in northern Japan at the weekend before apparently holing up inside for three da…
Dong Yuyu was detained in 2022 after meeting Japanese diplomats named agents of ‘espionage organisation’A veteran Chinese state media journalist has been sentenced by a Beijing court to seven years in prison on espionage charges, his family has said.Do…
Ishiba’s governing coalition lost majority and needs to find new partner or get consent from opposition to enact policyJapan’s parliament re-elected the prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba, on Monday after his governing coalition suffered the worst election…
Convenience stores are a neat and functional retail institution in Japan, where customers can access the daily essentials, from buying breakfast to paying billsKenji Yamamoto was unsure that his business would survive when he opened Japan’s first conve…