Children living in Japan’s hottest city will be given specially designed umbrellas to protect them from the heat, after a summer that saw record-breaking temperatures in many parts of the country. (theguardian.com)

A district court in Japan has sentenced a former male babysitter to 20 years in prison for sexually assaulting 20 children. (NHK)

A Japanese fishing town says a giant statue of a squid has had a huge economic effect, though it drew criticism for having been paid for with an emergency COVID-19 relief grant. (NHK)

Given the general rarity of firearms in Japan, knives are frequently used by those looking to intimidate others or inflict violence. (Japan Today)

A Japanese court sentenced a 23-year-old man to four years in prison on Tuesday for setting fire to empty houses in a community of Korean residents in Kyoto Prefecture a year ago, in a case seen by the residents as a hate crime. (fa.news)

Want to date a Japanese girl or boy in Japan? We asked them what issues and problems can happen on a date in Japan. (Ask Japanese)

Doctors have decided that Japan's Empress Emerita Michiko does not need medication for now for the blood clot in her leg. (NHK)

The brazen assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo with a handmade gun shocked a nation unused to high-profile political violence. (The Diplomat)

Marybelen Sakamoto was crowned Miss Universe Japan 2022 in a glittering national competition held on Thursday, August 25 in Tokyo. (pageantcircle.com)

A 29-year-old woman and her three-year-old daughter were found stabbed to death in their apartment in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, on Wednesday morning, police said, adding that they are looking for the woman’s 33-year-old husband whose whereabouts are unknown. (Japan Today)

Police in Chofu, Tokyo, have arrested a 27-year-old man on suspicion of allegedly sexually assaulting a woman in her 20s as she walked home last month. (Japan Today)

A whirlwind ride to promote the movie in the land where it all started. (soranews24.com)

A woman in Suzhou, China, was reportedly detained recently for “provoking trouble”. Her alleged crime was being spotted outside wearing a kimono. (westernmorning.news)

Japan’s first female photojournalist Tsuneko Sasamoto, who captured the lives of civilians under the country’s tumultuous Showa era, has died at the age of 107. (abc17news.com)

A bus crashed into a dividing strip, overturned and caught fire on an expressway in central Japan on Monday, killing two people and injuring seven others, police said. (republicworld.com)

A trans woman in Japan has been blocked by a court from being her own biological child’s legal parent. (pinknews.co.uk)

Oiran were the top yujo or prostitutes in the Yoshiwara yuukaku in the Edo period. (Japanese Comedian Meshida)

The small factories in the western Japanese city of Higashiosaka for decades fuelled the thundering rise of the country's biggest brands - but a weak yen and rising costs have accelerated a slow decline, and are reshaping the industrial heartland. (Reuters)

A girl was arrested Saturday on suspicion of attempted murder after apparently stabbing a mother in her 50s and her young daughter on a street in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward. (Kyodo)

These are examples of why a Japanese Wife may start hating their foreign husband. (Paolo fromTOKYO)