Fire Breaks Out at Daido Steel Chita Plant in Aichi

Japan Society News - August 12, 2026 - 02:15
A fire broke out late on August 11 at Daido Steel's Chita Plant in Tokai, Aichi Prefecture, burning through an outdoor area containing scrap metal and other materials, with no injuries reported and no flames spreading to nearby buildings. (News On Japan)
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Survivor's Memories Keep Lost Manchurian Settlement Alive

Japan Education News - August 12, 2026 - 02:11
Eighty-one years after the end of World War II, a newly donated book and the testimony of a man who moved to Manchuria as a child are preserving the history of a Japanese settlement known as Hamamatsu Village, whose residents fled advancing Soviet forces after years spent pursuing the promise of a more prosperous life. (News On Japan)
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T. Rex May Have Lived to 40, New Research Suggests

Japan Technology News - August 12, 2026 - 01:56
New research is reshaping long-held assumptions about Tyrannosaurus rex, including suggestions that the giant predator may have lived to around 40 years rather than 28, while advances in fossil analysis are also offering new clues about dinosaur growth, posture and even color. (News On Japan)
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Teqball Eyes Breakthrough at Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games

Japan Sports News - August 12, 2026 - 01:54
Teqball, a sport combining elements of soccer and table tennis, will make its Asian Games debut when the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games open in September, giving Japan's players a major opportunity to raise the profile of a discipline that has so far attracted relatively little attention domestically. (News On Japan)
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Sony and TSMC Invest 1 Trillion Yen in Next-Generation Sensors

Japan Business News - August 12, 2026 - 00:28
Sony Group and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. announced on August 11 that they have formally agreed to jointly produce next-generation image sensors, with total investment expected to reach about 1 trillion yen and mass production scheduled to begin in Kumamoto Prefecture in 2029. (News On Japan)
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Fake Images of Kumamoto Earthquake Spread Online

Japan Society News - August 12, 2026 - 00:25
Two weeks after the Kumamoto earthquake, the spread of malicious fake images has emerged as a problem in disaster-hit communities, with one resident saying the manipulation feels like an insult to everyone in his area. (News On Japan)
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Japanese Woman Trapped in North Korea for 40 Years

Japan Society News - August 12, 2026 - 00:20
Hiroko Saito was 19 years old when she left Japan for North Korea in June 1961 with her Korean husband and their one-year-old daughter, persuaded by assurances that they were heading to a "paradise on earth" and that she could return to Japan after three years. Instead, she would spend four decades in North Korea, enduring chronic hunger, the deaths of her husband and children and a desperate struggle to survive before finally escaping and returning home in 2001. (News On Japan)
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Japan Reinvents the Summer Festival

Japan Travel News - August 11, 2026 - 23:55
Summer festivals are in full swing across Japan, with distinctive local dances ranging from long-established traditions to unusual routines born at fishermen's banquets and even performances set to the music of American rock band Bon Jovi. (News On Japan)
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Typhoon No. 15: Heavy Rain Risk Remains in Kanto

Japan Travel News - August 10, 2026 - 23:01
Typhoon No. 15 continued moving west across central Japan on August 12, but heavy rain, strong winds and thunderstorms remained a threat far from the storm's center, with intense rainfall reported in parts of Tokyo and damage including fallen and broken trees in Ibaraki and Tochigi prefectures. (News On Japan)
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H3 Rocket No. 9 Successfully Launches Japan GPS Satellite

Japan Technology News - August 10, 2026 - 22:28
Japan's H3 Rocket No. 9 successfully placed the Michibiki No. 7 navigation satellite into its planned orbit after lifting off from the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture at 4:23 a.m. on August 11, marking the country's second consecutive successful H3 launch. (News On Japan)
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Men's Parasols and Air Conditioner Sales Rise

Japan Business News - August 10, 2026 - 19:19
Japan's street-level economic sentiment improved for a third consecutive month in July, supported by sharply hotter weather after the end of the rainy season and the start of the summer vacation period, with stronger sales of products including men's parasols and air conditioners. (News On Japan)
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Osaka Police Pound on Door Before Raiding Yakuza Office

Japan Society News - August 10, 2026 - 19:06
Osaka Prefectural Police searched an office linked to the Yamaguchi-gumi crime syndicate in Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture, on July 29 as part of an investigation into suspected receipt of money obtained through special fraud. (News On Japan)
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Up to 3 Million Yen in Aid Planned for Kumamoto Earthquake Victims

Japan Politics News - August 10, 2026 - 19:02
Prime Minister Takaichi said on August 10 that the government expects to apply the Disaster Victims' Livelihood Recovery Support Act across all of Kumamoto Prefecture, allowing households whose homes were completely destroyed in the Kumamoto earthquake to receive up to 3 million yen in assistance. (News On Japan)
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Tokaido Shinkansen Runs First Overnight Service

Japan Travel News - August 10, 2026 - 19:00
The Tokaido Shinkansen operated its first overnight service ahead of the Obon holiday period, offering travelers a 15,000 yen trip from the Tokyo area to Kyoto and Shin-Osaka while allowing them to save on hotel costs and arrive earlier than the first regular morning trains. (News On Japan)
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Nikkei Rises as AI Buying Returns and BOJ Rate-Hike Bets Build

Japan Business News - August 10, 2026 - 07:50
Tokyo stocks rose on August 10, with the Nikkei 225 closing at 66,376.25, up 1.2%, as investors bought electronics, metals and artificial intelligence-related shares, while fresh signs of a more hawkish Bank of Japan debate kept attention on the yen, bond yields and the timing of the next rate increase. (News On Japan)
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Lake Biwa Fireworks Event Abruptly Canceled Over Missing Permits

Japan Travel News - August 10, 2026 - 06:21
A fireworks festival that had been promoted as a simultaneous display of more than 10,000 fireworks across three cities on Lake Biwa in Shiga Prefecture was abruptly canceled on August 9, with organizers having failed to submit applications for permits required to hold the event. (News On Japan)
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Japan Posts 92.3 Billion Yen Current Account Deficit in June

Japan Business News - August 10, 2026 - 05:48
Japan recorded a current account deficit of 92.3 billion yen in June, its first shortfall in 17 months, as a sharp increase in import costs outpaced growth in exports. (News On Japan)
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BOJ Debate Shifts Toward Quicker Rate Hikes

Japan Business News - August 10, 2026 - 05:47
Several Bank of Japan policymakers have signaled support for accelerating interest rate increases, with one member warning that the pace of hikes could become faster than financial markets currently expect as the central bank pays greater attention to upside inflation risks. (News On Japan)
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Inside Universe Club: Japan's Best-Known Sugar Dating Club

Japan Travel News - August 10, 2026 - 01:37
Japan's dating scene has its own vocabulary, its own etiquette, and — for the arrangement style commonly known abroad as sugar dating — its own dedicated clubs. (News On Japan)
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Zombie Cigarette Drug Busts Rise Across Kansai

Japan Society News - August 9, 2026 - 18:51
Authorities in Kyoto and Osaka have arrested three men in separate drug cases involving so-called zombie cigarettes containing the designated drug etomidate, as investigators step up efforts against the illegal trade in the Kansai region. (News On Japan)
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