For the first time, oil subsidy program will be implemented to curb fuel prices this week; the nation's average gasoline price was 170,2 yen/liter, reaching highest level in over 13 years and topping the threshold required to launch the subsidy scheme

Commenting international concern about current spread of streptococcal infections, Hitoshi Honda, professor and infectious disease expert at Fujita Health University said pandemic-level infections are not expected and travel restrictions not required

157 hospitalizations have been traced back to dietary supplements at the center of an expanding health scare, an increase from the 114 cases that last week Kobayashi Pharmaceutical said were linked to its products containing red yeast rice 'beni kōji'

The film Oppenheimer was first shown in Japanese theaters, several months after its US release in July 2023