Students in Japan who are hoping to study abroad are mulling changes to their plans due to rising tuition and housing costs caused by a weakening yen.
A Tokyo-based company which helps students make arrangements to study overseas says the number of inquiries about changes in plans has been rising since the beginning of the month.
A eulogy for former Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo was read at a plenary session of the Lower House of the country's Diet on Tuesday.
Abe was fatally shot in July while making a campaign speech in western Japan.
Sales at Japan's major restaurant chains rose in September for the 10th straight month.
The Japan Foodservice Association says sales last month were up 19.7 percent from a year earlier. They increased in all of the categories that were surveyed.
A new company has launched a service in which motorcyclists can trade in their e-bike batteries for fresh ones before moving on.
The battery swapping station opened in central Tokyo.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has made publicly available many documents on the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics at a local library. But materials related to a sponsorship bribery scandal are not included.
The official documents from the Games' organizing committee were released at a Tokyo library on Tuesday.
A team of scientists in Japan has developed a robot modeled after the country's digital transformation minister.
The lifelike Kono Taro is part of a government-backed research project led by Professor Ishiguro Hiroshi at Osaka University in western Japan.
A UNESCO advisory body has welcomed a local government proposal for a new railway for Mount Fuji, a World Heritage site in central Japan.
The highest peak in Japan was registered as a World Heritage site in 2013. It straddles the central Japanese prefectures of Shizuoka and Yamanashi.
Japan's Prime Minister Kishida Fumio has decided to appoint former Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Goto Shigeyuki as the new economic revitalization minister. He will succeed Yamagiwa Daishiro, who stepped down on Monday amid a series of revelations about his links with the controversial religious group previously known as the Unification Church.
Goto is a member of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. He currently serves as chairperson of the party's Research Commission on Social Security System.
The Japanese government says the country's economy is moderately recovering in a new report.
It says business investment improved as the coronavirus ebbed, but warned that fluctuations in the yen could pose a risk.
Electric vehicles are becoming more popular in Japan but finding somewhere to charge them is still a problem.
Come spring, however, that's going to change when a new sharing service will connect charging stations and EV drivers through a smartphone app.
The Japanese government is set to convene a meeting of an expert panel to define the criteria for authorities to exercise the "right to ask questions" about religious groups.
The move comes after Prime Minister Kishida Fumio earlier this month ordered the education and culture minister, Nagaoka Keiko, to open a probe into the former Unification Church based on the right to ask questions under the Religious Corporations Act.
Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party plans to send a notice to its prefectural chapters telling them to refrain from receiving campaign support from the former Unification Church in next year's local elections.
NHK has learned that the LDP plans to send out the notice as early as Wednesday, targeting candidates it will support or endorse in local elections next spring.
Temperatures in eastern Japan are forecast to fall on Tuesday to levels usually seen between mid-November and early December.
It was a chilly day on Monday, especially in the eastern parts of the country, due to an influx of cold air. Daytime highs were 12.3 degrees in the city of Nagano, 15.7 in Sendai, 16.5 in Matsue, 16.8 in the city of Niigata, and 17.2 in central Tokyo.
Japan's Economic Revitalization Minister is stepping down after a series of revelations about his links to the former Unification Church.
Sources say Yamagiwa Daishiro met the widow of the group's founder three years ago, and posed for a photo.