Praying in icy water: 400-year-old ‘Kanmisogi’ purification ritual held in Fukuoka

News On Japan – Dec 18

This 12 months’s “Kanmisogi,” a 400-year-old custom the place courageous souls plunge into icy waters, was held over the weekend in Fukuoka.

NHK – Dec 18

Sunday marks two years since a lethal arson assault on a medical clinic within the metropolis of Osaka, western Japan. Bereaved households and former sufferers are nonetheless struggling to return to phrases with the tragedy.

TAKASHii from Japan – Dec 16

Kabukicho is Japan’s most colourful and controversial district situated in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Surprisingly there are homeless youngsters residing on this district, referred to as Toyoko Kids.

News On Japan – Dec 15

People who have been separated from their Japanese fathers throughout the Pacific War and subsequently lived with out citizenship within the Philippines have arrived in Japan to assemble details about their households, as they search to revive their Japanese nationality.

News On Japan – Dec 15

A Chinese man has been arrested on suspicion of repeatedly partaking in ‘white taxi’ actions in Tokyo, the place he illegally transported Chinese vacationers in his automobile and acquired cost with no license.

News On Japan – Dec 15

A 22-year-old autistic man has been despatched to jail for 23 years for stabbing and killing a feminine worker of an grownup leisure store in Tokyo two years in the past, when he was solely 19.

News On Japan – Dec 14

An aged man who was hit by a automobile whereas crossing a street within the early hours of Sunday morning, and whose physique was subsequently deserted within the mountains some 40 kilometers away, froze to demise, in keeping with an post-mortem.

News On Japan – Dec 14

Steel flying curler coaster “The Flying Dinosaur” at Universal Studios Japan (USJ) in Osaka, got here to an emergency cease on Tuesday morning at about 10:45, leaving passengers stranded for as much as 45 minutes. There have been no experiences of accidents or well being considerations.

News On Japan – Dec 14

An inmate who was subjected to repeated assaults, together with having disinfectant sprayed into his mouth by a jail guard, has advised JNN that he felt his life was at risk.

News On Japan – Dec 14

A person in his 30s from Saitama Prefecture, with no abroad journey historical past, has turn out to be the primary in Japan to fatally succumb to “mpox,” beforehand referred to as monkeypox.

Kyodo – Dec 13

A Japanese courtroom on Tuesday sentenced a 68-year-old man to life in jail for fatally taking pictures a physician and attacking different medical staff earlier than an 11-hour standoff with police at his residence close to Tokyo final 12 months.

Japan Times – Dec 13

Fusa Tatsumi, a 116-year-old acknowledged as Japan’s oldest particular person, died of previous age Tuesday, in keeping with a metropolis official of Kashiwara in Osaka Prefecture the place she lived.

Japanese Comedian Meshida – Dec 13

Nowadays, many foreigners come to Japan and luxuriate in our tradition, and a few foreigners are dreaming to reside in Japan as a result of meals is affordable, and superb very protected and wealthy tradition.

News On Japan – Dec 13

Heavy equipment has been deployed to gather huge quantities of sardines that washed ashore on the seashores of northern Japan.

NHK – Dec 12

A Japanese courtroom has discovered three male former Ground Self-Defense Force members responsible on costs of indecent assault of a feminine subordinate.

News On Japan – Dec 12

Murasugi Seminosuke, an actor identified for his distinctive portrayal of quirky characters, has admitted to allegations of receiving hashish and different managed substances on a number of events.