Police in Funabashi, Chiba Prefecture, on Sunday arrested an 18-year-old man on suspicion of fatally stabbing his 23-year-old flatmate. (Japan Today)

The recovery in Japan's economy has yet to reach the public, according to Nikkei Inc.'s latest opinion poll, with 81% of respondents saying they have not sensed any tangible improvement. (Nikkei)

Crown Prince Naruhito, on the occasion of his 55th birthday on Monday and ahead of the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II later this year, called for accounts of history to be handed down correctly. (Japan Times)

Tokyo Metropolitan Police on Sunday arrested an Asahi Shimbun newspaper deliveryman for allegedly threatening to kill a female announcer of Nippon Television over her choice of clothing, reports the Sankei Shimbun (Feb. 22). (Tokyo Reporter)

Dozens of hardworking sled dogs are battling it out in an annual competition in Wakkanai City in Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido. (NHK)

Thousands of people rallied in Japan's southern Okinawa Prefecture against a plan to construct a US base in a coastal area. (NHK)

The Tokyo Marathon on Sunday ended with no major trouble amid tight security that included police officers who ran along with participants. (Jiji Press)

Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority said Sunday that an alarm went off at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s <9501> Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant that signaled high radioactivity levels in drainage ditches. (Jiji Press)

South Korea on Sunday protested the Japanese government's sending of a high-level official to represent it at an annual ceremony held in western Japan to press Tokyo's claim to a pair of South Korean-controlled islets, issuing a statement condemning the move as a "provocation" and calling it "extremely deplorable." (Kyodo)

A central government representative pledged efforts to find a peaceful solution to a dispute with Seoul over a group of South Korean-administered islets as the Shimane prefectural government held its 10th annual "Takeshima Day" ceremony on Sunday. (Kyodo)

The Consumer Affairs Agency has ordered Earth Chemical Co. and three other companies to stop misleading advertising and other representations about some of their insect repellents. (The Japan News)

Japan's Foreign Ministry said Saturday another Japanese national has been temporarily detained as a suspicious person by authorities in the Kurdish autonomous zone in northern Iraq earlier this month. (Kyodo)

Yutaka Katayama, a former president of Nissan Motor Co.'s U.S. unit who built the Z sports car into a powerful global brand in the 1970s, has died, his son said Saturday. He was 105. (Japan Today)

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe responded to criticism in the Diet on Friday about his playing golf and attending concerts in late December after he had been informed that two Japanese were being held hostage by Islamic State extremists. (Japan Today)

Tokyo Metropolitan Police on Friday arrested a man living in Mizuho for providing a teenage girl to an out-call sex service in Saitama Prefecture, reports the Yomiuri Shimbun (Feb. 11). (Tokyo Reporter)

The nation's first mass-produced drone underwent a test flight here Feb. 20 ahead of work assisting cleanup crews near the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. (Asahi)

As a part of an ongoing investigation into drugs smuggled from China, Kanagawa Prefectural Police on Friday arrested the leader of a huge producer of a highly specialized stimulant, reports the Sankei Shimbun (Feb. 20). (Tokyo Reporter)

U.S. regulators said they're fining Takata Corp. to help speed government efforts to solve the mystery of why millions of air bags in passenger cars may be at risk of exploding. (Bloomberg)

A murder investigation is underway after the body of a male age 10 to 19 was found by a river in Kawasaki, police said Saturday. (Japan Times)

Japan has become a popular place for Chinese people to spend their week-long Lunar New Year holidays partly thanks to a weak yen, with newspapers here running articles on the shopping spree of Chinese tourists in Japan. (The Japan News)