2023-12-12 12:06:49 The Skateboarding and Street World Championships, which will be held for the first time in Japan, will begin with preliminary rounds on the 13th at the Ariake Coliseum in Koto-ku, Tokyo. The tournament is one of the international tournaments where points are earned for the world rankings that will determine who will represent … Read more
2023-12-12 06:05:10 The Kanji of the Year is selected by the Japan Kanji Proficiency Testing Association, headquartered in Kyoto City, which solicits kanji from the public that represents the social conditions of the year, and chooses the most commonly used kanji. This year, out of 147,878 applications from the 1st of last month to the … Read more
2023-12-10 07:37:00 The annual “Qingdao Pacific Marathon” was held in Miyazaki City on the 10th, with over 10,000 runners running through Miyazaki in December.This year, the 3km course was revived for the first time in four years, and elementary school students were seen running with their parents and children. More than 10,700 runners from all … Read more
2023-12-04 10:20:32 On the 28th of last month, avian influenza virus was detected in the carcass of a wild buzzard found in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo. On the 4th, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government announced that subsequent detailed testing by the National Institute for Environmental Studies detected the H5 subtype, a highly infectious and highly pathogenic virus. … Read more
2023-11-26 04:35:59 Foreign Minister Kamikawa, who is visiting Busan, South Korea, to attend the Japan-China-ROK Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, met with Foreign Minister Park Chin for approximately one and a half hours starting at 9:00 a.m. on the 26th. During the meeting, Minister Kamikawa commented on the comfort women issue, in which the South Korean High … Read more
2023-11-24 22:00:40 At around 6:50 p.m. on the 24th, the Metropolitan Police Department received a report of a “robber” coming from a tobacco store in Higashikomatsugawa, Edogawa Ward, Tokyo. According to the Metropolitan Police Department, the store owner, a man in his 80s, was working alone in a warehouse at the back of the store … Read more
2023-11-24 12:18:01 The supplementary budget bill for this fiscal year, with a total general account budget of 13,199.2 billion yen, was voted on at the House of Representatives Budget Committee on the 24th, after a closing question and answer session attended by Prime Minister Kishida and all cabinet ministers. The bill was passed with a … Read more
2023-11-24 08:45:57 The supplementary budget bill for this fiscal year, with a total general account budget of 13,199.2 billion yen, was voted on at the House of Representatives Budget Committee on the 24th, after a closing question and answer session attended by Prime Minister Kishida and all cabinet ministers. The bill was passed with a … Read more