Authorities fear products like joke t-shirts and items with sexual messages on them are hurting the area's image.

Maebashi Mayor Akira Ogawa held a closed-door meeting with all city council members on October 2nd to explain her repeated hotel meetings with a married senior city official, but afterward she avoided stating whether she would resign. (News On Japan)

A massive tornado-like phenomenon was observed late in the morning of October 2nd off the coast of Tsuruoka in Yamagata Prefecture’s Shonai region, with thick swirling clouds rising high into the sky as seawater was drawn upward. (News On Japan)

Japan is about to hold the leadership election of the ruling party, and the winner will become the next prime minister. Five candidates are in the running this time. Some people say Japan is doomed no matter who wins. (Japanese Comedian Meshida)

Studying samples from the ice sheet gives an environmental record of over a million years.

Police say they shot dead two people who were part of a crowd trying to storm a police station.

Police say they shot dead two people who were part of a crowd trying to storm a police station.

President Trump's proposal, accepted by Israel, stipulates that Hamas disarm and have no future role in governing Gaza.

The man who was photographed as a baby on the LP cover sued the band for distributing child pornography.

Police suspect three-year-old Cheryl Grimmer, originally from Bristol, was taken from a beach in Australia.

Police suspect three-year-old Cheryl Grimmer, originally from Bristol, was taken from a beach in Australia.

Ukraine has attacked refineries deep inside Russia, with Zelensky vowing to continue the strikes.

Bobi Wine says the two Kenyans were "picked up mafia-style" because they had joined his campaign.

There are reportedly "no signs of life" under the wreckage, where 59 people are still missing.

There are reportedly "no signs of life" under the wreckage, where 59 people are still missing.

The Alhashemi family have spent the past 15 years moving around Europe in a state of legal limbo.

The Okinawa region experienced record-breaking heat in September, with average temperatures 1.6 degrees Celsius above normal, the highest since records began. (News On Japan)

The upcoming Liberal Democratic Party leadership election will determine not only who leads Japan’s ruling party but also who is likely to become the country’s next prime minister, and the voting system itself plays a decisive role in shaping the outcome. The election is decided by a combination of votes from LDP lawmakers in the National Diet and ballots cast by the party’s grassroots members across Japan, creating a two-stage process that balances national and local influence. (News On Japan)

The huge off-shore facility run by BP means they now struggle to survive, the fishermen say.

Andrej Babis has been taking notes from the US Maga movement but he may need to partner with ultra-nationalists.