In the World Cup, Japan pulled off its biggest upset since first appearing in the tournament back in 1998.
The Samurai Blue came from behind in Wednesday's Group E clash to defeat four-time champion Germany 2-1.
Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio has admitted to inadequacies in the submission of his office's campaign expenditures pertaining to last year's general elections.
The online edition of the weekly Shukan Bunshun magazine said that Kishida's office attached 94 receipts with no addressee and description to its expenditures.
Soccer fans flocked around the famous scramble crossing near Tokyo's Shibuya Station after Japan beat Germany 2-1 in the World Cup in Qatar.
A university student said he watched the match at a nearby restaurant. The 20-year-old said he thought Japan might lose when Germany opened the scoring, and he was very happy the Samurai Blue prevailed.
Japan's health ministry says 12,850 coronavirus cases were confirmed in Tokyo on Wednesday.
The daily tally is up 2,736 from a week ago. It's also the 19th straight week-on-week increase.
A Japanese government panel of experts on the country's defense capabilities has called for the early deployment of missiles with counterattack capabilities. It also suggested tax hikes would be the preferred way to finance the increase in defense capabilities.
The panel came up with a report on ways to drastically enhance the country's defense capabilities, on Tuesday. The panel's chair, Sasae Kenichiro, who is a former ambassador to the US, submitted the report to Prime Minister Kishida Fumio.
Tokyo police referred a university student to prosecutors on Tuesday for allegedly cheating on exams that companies use to assess prospective new employees.
Police say the fourth-year Tokyo student paid a man to take online job recruitment exams for her given by 23 firms. They included credit card companies, banks, trading houses and real estate-related firms. Police say she paid him about 100,000 yen or about 704 dollars.
Japan's education and culture minister, Nagaoka Keiko, says she will exercise the government's legal authority on Tuesday to question the religious group formerly known as the Unification Church.
The group is accused of soliciting large donations from followers and conducting dubious marketing practices known as spiritual sales.
The former Unification Church says it will respond "in good faith" to the questions that the education and culture ministry is set to ask.
The religious group is now called the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification. On Tuesday, the ministry will exercise the government's legal authority to question the group about its fundraising practices.
Newly appointed Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Matsumoto Takeaki has rebuffed a report that he possibly violated the political funds control law.
The Japanese Communist Party's newspaper says the number of tickets sold for Matsumoto's past fundraisers exceeded the capacity of the venues where they were held multiple times.
The Japanese Communist Party's newspaper is reporting that Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Matsumoto Takeaki may have violated the political funds control law.
It says the number of tickets sold for Matsumoto's past fundraisers exceeded the capacity of the venues where they were held multiple times.
Japan's central and Tokyo Metropolitan governments have sent a letter of inquiry to a religious group, formerly known as the Unification Church, regarding its adoption arrangements.
The former Unification Church has recommended that childless followers be allowed to adopt the children of other members. The organization says adoptions involving 745 children have taken place within the group since 1981.
Officials at the Japanese unit of now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX Trading says its customers will soon be able to withdraw assets from their accounts.
FTX Japan's executives have told NHK that customer funds are frozen at the moment because the subsidiary uses its parent firm's computer system, which is currently down.
Japan's health ministry is to convene a meeting of experts on Tuesday to discuss whether to approve an oral coronavirus drug developed by Japanese pharmaceutical company Shionogi. If approved, it would be the first domestically developed oral drug for patients with mild COVID-19 symptoms.
The move comes after a ministry council decided in July to continue deliberating Shionogi's application for emergency authorization of the drug, Xocova, citing a lack of data. The company filed the application in February.
Japanese officials are preparing to assert their legal authority to question the group, formerly known as the Unification Church.
The move is permitted under a law adopted in the wake of a cult-ordered sarin gas attack on Tokyo subways in 1995. It could potentially lead to the group being stripped of its standing as a religious corporation.