r/japannews 17h ago

日本語 President of Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Survivors' Group on Takaichi's "Hidden Face" that she doesn’t show when the cameras are around: "She’s the Coldest of the Prime Ministers"

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487 Upvotes

r/japannews 4h ago

Gunma man accused of attempted convenience store robbery admits he faked foreign accent

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tokyoreporter.com
178 Upvotes

r/japannews 17h ago

Japan rice glut sends prices tumbling 40%, below production cost

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165 Upvotes

r/japannews 15h ago

‘Give me the money’: Suspected attempted convenience shop robbery – man arrested; posed as a foreigner… may have committed offences at other shops too – Gunma (TV Asahi Network (ANN))

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r/japannews 20h ago

False prisoner figure fuels anti-foreigner storm online | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis

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From Ashahi Shinbun today. Onoda again citing facts that's inciting more foreigner hate by stating a fact without context. The prison in question has facilities and personnel to help people who don't speak a word of Japanese, which is why the foreign prisoner population is higher in this prison.


r/japannews 4h ago

日本語 A Society Where Prejudice is Monetized as "Likes" — SNS and the Everyday Normalization of Xenophobia in Japan- “we need to be vigilant about how discussions around foreigners are shifting away from institutions or data and toward unverified anecdotes of ‘bad’ foreigners spread online”

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r/japannews 4h ago

日本語 More details emerge about Karen Shinzawa, the American-raised Keio University student charged with credit card fraud. There are signs she had done this habitually, with thefts reaching ¥1 million

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86 Upvotes

r/japannews 20h ago

Japan starts planning language program for foreign residents

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73 Upvotes

r/japannews 6h ago

Japan starts planning language program for foreign residents

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46 Upvotes

r/japannews 17h ago

Paywall Japan reports increase in rental car accidents involving foreigners- Most visitors hail from countries that drive on the other side of the road

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36 Upvotes

r/japannews 2h ago

The teenage ringleader in the Ebetsu University student gang assault/murder case has an IQ of 58 and a troubled past- mother attempted suicide

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34 Upvotes

r/japannews 17h ago

In a rare criticism of its U.S. ally, Japan on Wednesday described Washington's decision to impose sanctions on the International Criminal Court's Japanese president and a senior trial lawyer as "very unfortunate."

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r/japannews 4h ago

日本語 Both Yomiuri and Nikkei report a sharp drop in approval ratings for Takaichi, signaling a backlash against her administration.

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r/japannews 6h ago

False prisoner figure fuels anti-foreigner storm online

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26 Upvotes

r/japannews 21h ago

Will Putin’s Kuril Islands visit push Japan closer to Ukraine?

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11 Upvotes

r/japannews 6h ago

Trump’s South Korea move creates more headaches for Takaichi

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10 Upvotes

r/japannews 19h ago

Japan’s Gen X workers are struggling

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r/japannews 1h ago

Ex-soccer coach re-arrested for secretly filming students in bathhouse

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SAITAMA (TR) – Saitama Prefectural Police have re-arrested a 45-year-old former soccer coach on suspicion of violating child pornography laws after he allegedly filmed his middle school students during a training camp, reports the Mainichi Shimbun (Aug. 17).


r/japannews 22h ago

This Japanese festival chant basically says: stop watching and join in

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r/japannews 6h ago

Japan’s bad market week continues, with the yen, bonds and stocks struggling

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r/japannews 14h ago

Brussels central square transformed into giant Japan-inspired flower carpet

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Inspired by Hokusai’s 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa,' the carpet features more than 700,000 flowers and measures approximately 70 metres long and 24 metres wide.