4+ hour, 33+ min ago   (198+ words) Officials in Chiba Prefecture, neighboring Tokyo, report that more than 520 businesses have been affected by the record rain that struck last month. They say losses total over 2.6 billion yen, or roughly 17 million dollars. During the downpours in mid-August, the Japan…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (283+ words) NHK has learned that a documentary film showing Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the immediate aftermath of the August 1945 atomic bombings contains scenes with a wider field of view than previously known. The documentary "Effects of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (241+ words) New York City has introduced cutting-edge technology to help identify unknown victims of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks. The 9/11 attacks killed 2,753 people at the World Trade Center. Some 1,099 victims, or about 40 percent, are still unidentified a quarter-century later. A special team…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (232+ words) Researchers at the Japan Meteorological Agency say bands of tall heavy rain clouds, called "squall line type," brought record rainfall last month to Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo. Chiba City received about three times the normal rainfall for the entire…...

3+ day, 3+ min ago   (167+ words) Japan's agriculture ministry says it will raise the price of imported wheat by 12 percent from the fall. The ministry on Wednesday announced the average price of five major wheat brands for the period between October and March next year. It…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (234+ words) Japan's Children and Families Agency says 50 children across the country died from abuse in the year to March 2025. This excludes cases involving the suicide of parents or guardians. The agency says the figure, which includes deaths caused by assault or…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (244+ words) Professor Yanagisawa Masashi of the University of Tsukuba shared the Basic Medical Research Award with a Stanford University professor for their research on the nature of sleep. Yanagisawa, who heads his university's International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine, discovered a…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (270+ words) A large-scale solar power plant has been completed at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant in northern Ukraine with financial support from the Japanese government. The new facility is meant to ensure a stable power supply at the Chornobyl plant, which…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (266+ words) A winery and pear farmers in Gunma Prefecture, north of Tokyo, are collaborating to produce alcoholic beverages using substandard pears. The initiative was launched five years ago by a group of pear farmers in Takasaki City and a winery in…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (197+ words) UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on world leaders to work for peace at an annual ceremony to ring the Peace Bell at the United Nations in New York on Wednesday. Japan presented the Peace Bell to the UN in 1954. It…...