Yuma Mune doubled in two runs and Yuma Tongu hit a solo home run as the Orix Buffaloes edged the Hanshin Tigers 5-4 in Tuesday's Game 3 to lead the best-of-seven Japan Series two games to one. (Kyodo)

Japan gets a lot of things right. Here's 12 things worth stealing! (Abroad in Japan)

An armed suspect in a shooting was holed up inside a post office in Saitama Prefecture, north of Tokyo with two female hostages. Police stormed the building and arrested him. (NHK)

For everyone using the free messaging app "LINE", have you neglected an important notification? If you haven't yet given consent to their new privacy policy, there's a risk you won't be able to use LINE from November 1st. (News On Japan)

Reporters have been invited to get their first look at the ongoing construction of the third-generation Hyper-Kamiokande detector in central Japan. The underground detector is designed to observe elementary particles called neutrinos falling from space. (NHK)

A former city councilman has been sentenced to six years in prison after being charged with indecent assault after groping girls at a camping event he sponsored. (News On Japan)

Japan’s exchange rate environment made a big turnaround in 2022, when the yen began to depreciate sharply. When it exceeded 145 yen against the US dollar by September 2022, and then 150 yen in October, the Ministry of Finance conducted two rounds of foreign exchange interventions. (East Asia Forum)

The Bank of Japan is set to consider a further adjustment to its yield curve control (YCC) framework at Tuesday's monetary policy meeting, potentially allowing 10-year Japanese government bond yields to rise above 1%, sources close to the matter told Nikkei. (Nikkei)

The operator of the Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea theme parks is now projecting a record operating profit for the year ending March 2024, buoyed by the return of foreign visitors and higher per-guest spending. (Nikkei)

okyo is WILDLY organized. And today were breaking it down area by area and looking at what areas of Tokyo, specialize in what kind of shops. This is the ULTIMATE Tokyo shopping guide! (Tokyo Lens)

The US military has decided to buy Japan’s seafood in bulk in an effort to offset China’s ban in the wake of the Fukushima water release. (independent.co.uk)

Teenage Japanese "Go" player Nakamura Sumire says she has decided to shift her base of professional activity to South Korea as she finds it necessary for her to study the game in a more competitive environment. (NHK)

As clear blue skies spread across Japan, autumn leaves are at their peak in Oku-Nikko, Tochigi Prefecture. (News On Japan)

A fire drill was conducted at a World Heritage site in central Japan to protect the traditional steep-angled, thatched houses by creating water curtains. (NHK)

Around 1,000 demonstrators from Japan’s Muslim community gathered in the Ichigaya district of Tokyo near the Israeli Embassy on Sunday to protest against the bombing of Gaza. (Arab News)

The manager of a sex club in Shinjuku, Tokyo, has been arrested on suspicion of aiding and abetting public indecency. (News On Japan)

A driver of a Ferrari that suddenly burst into flames while cruising along a central Fukuoka street on Sunday was lucky to escape the inferno. (News On Japan)

A 9-year-old girl was seriously injured on Sunday by a falling signboard for a Halloween event in Kobe, breaking her leg. (News On Japan)

Trade ministers from the Group of Seven nations have called for immediately ending measures that unnecessarily restrict trade. (NHK)

A team of Japanese researchers says they have found that mammalian embryos develop normally in space under microgravity conditions. (NHK)