A major Japanese ramen chain is offering free noodles to young people ahead of Sunday’s upper house elections, amid widespread concern that the nation’s disaffected youth will not bother turning out to vote. Ippudo, which operates 50 ramen shops across… Read More »Free noodles offered as Japan wrestles with low youth turnout for elections
Early July is the cue for Japanese surfers and sun seekers to descend on beaches across the country – and one beach on the Pacific coast is turning to artificial intelligence to ensure that their time in the water is… Read More »Japan deploys artificial intelligence to detect rip currents as beach season hots up
North Korea has denounced the United States, South Korea and Japan for pushing to boost their trilateral military cooperation targeting the North, warning that Pyongyang may need to consider reinforcing its own military capability. A North Korean foreign ministry spokesperson… Read More »North Korea says it may boost military to counter US, South Korea and Japan pact
Food from Fukushima will be freely available in the UK from Wednesday, weeks after Boris Johnson snacked on popcorn from the Japanese prefecture hit by a triple nuclear meltdown in March 2011. Britain restricted Fukushima imports after the disaster, the… Read More »UK to lift import restrictions on food from Fukushima
There were scorching conditions across Japan over the weekend, with the 40C threshold breached for the first time in the month of June. A temperature of 40.2°C was recorded on Saturday in Isesaki, Gunma Prefecture, north-east of Tokyo,which beat the… Read More »Weather tracker: Japan swelters as ‘heat dome’ pushes up temperatures
Japan’s government has warned tens of millions of people in the Tokyo region to save energy or face power cuts, as the capital battles record June temperatures after a premature end to the rainy season. Temperatures of 35C (95 degrees… Read More »Japanese told to turn off lights to save energy amid Tokyo heatwave
A city in Japan has been forced to apologise after a contractor admitted he had lost a USB memory stick containing the personal data of almost half a million residents after an alcohol-fuelled night out. Officials in Amagasaki, western Japan,… Read More »Japanese city worker loses USB containing personal details of every resident
A tsunami could soon hit major cities on or near the Mediterranean Sea including Marseille, Alexandria and Istanbul, with a nearly 100% chance of a wave reaching more than a metre high in the next 30 years, according to Unesco.… Read More »Marseille, Alexandria and Istanbul prepare for Mediterranean tsunami
A Japanese woman living in Belgium has been elected as mayor of a district in Tokyo after coming to prominence through her online campaigning during the Covid pandemic. Satoko Kishimoto, 47, who has lived in the Belgian city of Leuven… Read More »Tokyo mayoral win a ‘huge surprise’ for candidate living in Belgium
Japan’s faltering campaign to raise its birthrate has gone analogue, with authorities in a southwestern city encouraging potential suitors to put pen to paper and wait patiently for a reply rather than simply swiping right. The city of Miyazaki says… Read More »Don’t swipe, write: Japanese city encourages daters to send love letters