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Japan's Diet has enacted a bill into law that paves the way for divorced parents to share custody of their children. The current system allows only either of the couple to exercise parental rights.

The SDP factory produces LCD panels for televisions, and its suspension will mean Japan no longer has the capacity to produce large panels.

In 2021, the government panel presented the proposals, which call for allowing female members to retain their Imperial Family status after marriage and for allowing male members in the paternal line of former Imperial Family branches to be adopted into the Imperial Family.

Prime Minister Kishida announces support for company's second plant in Kumamoto

A Japan Airlines plane caught fire on the runway at Haneda Airport on Tuesday evening, and firefighting efforts are underway.

One survey found Kishida’s ‘disapproval rate’ was at 79 per cent, the highest since the newspaper started conducting such polls more than seven decades ago.

All traces of a massive pop star once dubbed the “Japanese Madonna” are being scrubbed from the internet, some five years after she retired from public life at the age of 40.

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Now, after five years of absolute silence, fans have noticed an even more extreme update: Amuro’s official YouTube channel, housing all her dozens of music videos has been deleted. All of her solo music has also been wiped from streaming services: Search “Namie Amuro” on Spotify or Apple Music, and you’ll see just a handful of her collaborations with other artists, with no sign of anything from the dozen albums she released through her career.

A rise in the antics of nuisance influencers in Japan, who are accused of duping train ticket collectors and pretending to be homeless to get cash, has caused consternation in the country as tourism number near their pre-pandemic levels.

A railway company in Japan is investigating allegations that a group of four popular foreign YouTubers had travelled long distances by train without paying. One of the suspected fare dodgers posted a video to his 2.38 million subscribers over the weekend showing him and three others evading rail staff and blagging free food.

Tight security is in place in Tokyo's vibrant Shibuya district just days before Halloween, with the famous Hachiko dog statue covered with a white curtain bearing the message that the area is "not a venue" for events.

Employees got the weight of each Sumo wrestler from the Nihon Sumo Kyokai website and discovered that both JL659 and JL2465 on the 12th would be off weight and balance. [...]

JAL operation contacted other departments and in the early hours of the 12th, JAL decided to operate an additional unscheduled flight on HND-ASJ just for sumo wrestlers.

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The 21-year-old took the Oza crown, having won Game 4 to finish the best-of-five match against 31-year-old Takuya Nagase.

The eight plaintiffs, who live overseas, had argued that foreign nationality was necessary to facilitate their work and lives abroad.