Japanese national confirmed dead in Spanish train crash

Stolen luxury watch returned to Tokyo store via courier with apology note

The package containing the stolen watch had been sent from Aichi Prefecture and included a handwritten apology.

Japan Timeline for October 2026

Top stories in Japan for October 2026 included the Japanese scientist Soai Kensō’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Ishiba underscores importance of National Disaster Management Agency

The agency must be made "capable of accumulating and passing on knowledge and experience" of disaster management, the fo…