Scorching heat prevailed again on Tuesday in many parts of Japan, with temperatures soaring above 38 degrees Celsius in the Kanto Koshin and Tokai regions. Weather officials say extreme heat is expected to continue on Wednesday and are calling on people to take extra care to prevent heatstroke.
The Japan Meteorological Agency says sunny weather prevailed in western and eastern Japan and other regions, pushing up temperatures.
Some opposition parties in Japan have called on the main ruling Liberal Democratic Party to clarify its links with a religious group.
The Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, previously known as the Unification Church, has been the focus of attention ever since the suspect in the fatal shooting of former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo told police he had a grudge against it.
The mayor of Hiroshima says he will call on the world to change the view that nuclear deterrence is necessary in the face of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Mayor Matsui Kazumi on Monday said he will make the call in the peace declaration he will deliver at a ceremony marking the 77th anniversary of the city's atomic bombing on August 6.
The mayor of Nagasaki City, western Japan, has revealed the main points of his peace declaration, which he will deliver at a ceremony on August 9, the 77th anniversary of the US atomic bombing of the city.
Taue Tomihisa told a news conference on Monday that he has been preparing the declaration based on discussions in a committee consisting of atomic bomb survivors and experts.
Local authorities in central Japan have ordered a real estate company to remove soil mounds that remained after a deadly mudslide last year.
Shizuoka Prefecture on Monday issued the order to Shinkansen Building. The company built the mounds on an elevated piece of land it owned in the city of Atami.
A prosecution inquest panel has concluded that former executives of Kansai Electric Power Company should be indicted over issues related to executive salary compensation and other misconduct.
The latest decision by the panel made up of randomly chosen citizens was disclosed on Monday.
Japan's two biggest airlines posted improving results for the April-to-June period, with one reporting its first return to the black since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
ANA Holdings logged a group net profit of one billion yen or about 7.5 million dollars. It is the company's first quarterly net profit since the third quarter of 2019.
An organization in Ibaraki Prefecture, north of Tokyo, is providing breastfeeding clothes to evacuees from Ukraine with young children.
The Ibaraki International Association has mainly been assisting evacuees who live in the prefecture by dispatching volunteers and lending them translation devices.
South Korea's defense ministry has announced that it will hold joint exercises to detect and track North Korea's ballistic missiles with Japan, the United States and other countries.
The ministry told reporters on Monday that the drills will take place off Hawaii from Monday through August 14.
A senior Japanese government official says Japan has lodged a protest with South Korea over recent activities of the country's ships near the Takeshima Islands in the Sea of Japan.
South Korea controls the islands. Japan claims them. The Japanese government says South Korea is illegally occupying the islands.
Players of kendama, a traditional Japanese cup-and-ball game, have battled for the world title at a tournament in the city of Hatsukaichi in Hiroshima Prefecture.
The city is said to be where the manufacture of the skill toy first began in Japan.
Weather officials are calling for vigilance after tropical storm Trases formed over waters just north of the main island of Okinawa, southwestern Japan.
The Meteorological Agency said a tropical depression developed into the tropical storm over waters 40 kilometers north of the city of Naha at noon on Sunday.
Japanese authorities have issued a heatstroke alert for prefectures from northeastern through western regions as an intense sunshine is bringing another sweltering day on Sunday.
As of 11 a.m., temperatures stood at 36.5 degrees Celsius in the city of Komatsu in Ishikawa Prefecture, central Japan, and the city of Hirakata in the western prefecture of Osaka. The mercury hit 33.5 degrees in central Tokyo.
Japanese automakers are delaying delivery of vehicles and suspending new orders for some models largely due to the need to cut production amid a global semiconductor shortage.
Eight major carmakers say they assembled roughly 3.4 million vehicles in the first half of this year. That's a drop of more than 14 percent from the same period last year.