Tokyo police say a suspected Japanese phone scam group may have rotated its members and moved its base around in Cambodia to evade detection by authorities.
Young actor Eiji Akaso (29) has been the talk of the town since he played the childhood friend of Mai Iwakura, played by Haruka Fukuhara (24), the heroine of NHK's morning television series "Soar! until the end of March, he played Takashi Umezu, a childhood friend of Mai Iwakura, played by Haruka Fukuhara (24), the heroine of the story, who gets married to Mai at the end of the story.
Japan's government used its J-alert nationwide emergency warning system on Thursday morning to issue a warning that a North Korean missile could fall in or around the northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido.
The prices of goods traded among companies in Japan rose last month compared to a year earlier. Prices continue to rise to higher levels, but the pace of the increases has eased.
At the Shogi 8th Eioh Tournament, Game 1 (held at Kanda Myojin, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo on November 11, sponsored by Fujii and the Japan Shogi Federation), Sota Eio Fujii, 20, the winner of 6 titles including Kisei and Ryuoh, defeated Tatsuya Sugai, 30, 8-dan, who was playing behind him, by 147 moves to win the first game.
April 12, KOREA WAVE] Jungkook, a member of the South Korean group Bulletproof Youth Team (BTS), is reportedly building a two-story basement and three-story mansion in Itaewon, Seoul, after demolishing a single-family home he purchased in 2020 for 7.63 billion won ($768.6 million).
More and more people around the world are using the artificial intelligence chatbot known as ChatGPT. The CEO of the app's developer OpenAI visited Japan on Monday. Sam Altman suggests in an exclusive interview with NHK that ChatGPT will improve our lives in ways we may never have imagined.
The latest opinion poll conducted by NHK shows most Japanese do not expect Japan-China relations to change. The two countries recently agreed to promote closer communications.