The Japan Coast Guard and police are continuing to search for people who went missing six months ago in a sightseeing boat accident off the northern Japanese prefecture of Hokkaido.
The "Kazu I" tour boat sank off the Shiretoko Peninsula in April. Of the 26 passengers and crew members onboard, 20 have been confirmed dead and six remain missing as of Sunday.
People in Western Japan have enjoyed a rare and dazzling spectacle on the region's highest peak.
The sun rose from behind the top of Mount Daisen in Tottori Prefecture.
Japan's health ministry confirmed 2,805 new cases of the coronavirus in Tokyo on Sunday, up 91 from a week ago.
The number of severely ill patients on ventilators or ECMO heart-lung machines in the capital stood at 11, unchanged from the previous day.
Sunday marks exactly six months since a fatal sightseeing boat accident occurred off the Japanese northern island of Hokkaido.
The Japan Coast Guard is still working to find out why the "Kazu I" tour boat with 26 people on board sank off Shiretoko Peninsula in April. Twenty people have been confirmed dead and six others are still unaccounted for.
Japan's Foreign Minister Hayashi Yoshimasa is hoping to reconfirm cooperation with the Group of Seven countries when he takes part in the meeting of the foreign ministers on November 3 and 4 in Munster, Germany.
Hayashi will be meeting with his counterparts separately on the sidelines of the conference.
Japan's Emperor and Empress have visited the southern prefecture of Okinawa for the first time since the Emperor's enthronement in 2019. They paid tribute to the war dead there.
Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako went to Okinawa on Saturday. The last time that they traveled to the prefecture together was in 1997.
The number of confirmed cases of influenza in Japan so far this season has remained much lower than levels usually observed before the coronavirus pandemic began in 2020.
The health ministry says it received reports of only 97 flu cases from about 5,000 medical institutions nationwide during the seven-day period through last Sunday.
Japan's health ministry says it confirmed 3,231 new coronavirus cases in Tokyo on Saturday.
The daily tally is down eight from a week ago.
The chief of the International Criminal Court has called for international support for the court's investigation into alleged war crimes by Russians in Ukraine.
ICC President Piotr Hofmanski spoke to NHK in Tokyo on Friday.
Four Japanese political parties have agreed on the need for new legislation to provide relief to people who have been negatively impacted by a religious entity.
The group formerly known as the Unification Church has extracted massive donations from followers. Many people are in financial ruin.
Japan and the United States plan to stage drills in November to simulate remote island defense in which joint logistics bases will be set up for the first time.
Defense Minister Hamada Yasukazu said on Friday the Japanese Self-Defense Forces and the US military will hold the drills from November 10 to 19 in southern Japan. This will be 16th active Japan-US exercise to date.
NHK has learned that Komuro Kei, the husband of Japan's former Princess Mako, has told a person close to him that he has passed the New York State bar exam.
Lawyer Okuno Yoshihiko says he received a call from Komuro on Friday telling him that he passed the exam. It was his third attempt.
Efforts are being made to help students in Japan offset the impact of rising prices. A university faculty in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward has started allocating the local virtual currency to each of its students.
Nihon University's College of Humanities and Sciences is handing out 2,000 yen or about 13 dollars per student in the form of points using the ward's own digital currency.
Japan's economic revitalization minister has apologized over a fresh revelation about his connection with the controversial former Unification Church.
Yamagiwa Daishiro told reporters on Friday that independent reports have revealed he met the current head of the religious group, Han Hak-ja, in Nagoya, central Japan, three years ago. The two appeared in a group photo taken at that time.