From this week, borders will reopen to 50 foreign tourists who will visit the country on organised tours in small groups of up to four people, an experiment to see how and when to fully reopen to international tourists not yet admitted

Ultra-deep-sea quest to mine rare earths triggers a green backlash as an extreme-depth drilling mission is announced to a site around 100km from remote atoll Minamitorishima, the easternmost point of Japan territory, risking a global ‘race to the bottom’

A team representing the United States won the championship of the World Cosplay Summit 2025 in Nagoya; they were clad in popular game characters

For the first time since 2016, a typhoon made landfall on Hokkaido coast; Typhoon Nari crossed near Cape Erimo before weakening to a storm according to the Japan Meteorological Agency

Researchers from major universities, including Tokyo's Waseda, have used prompts in their papers to get positive AI-based reviews, raising concerns about integrity, amid a surge in peer-to-peer review exploitation in academic publishing