r/japannews • u/Miao_Yin8964 • 16h ago

Source in Comments China Is Learning to Sell Japanese Culture Better Than Japan

thediplomat.com

1.8k Upvotes

240 comments

r/japannews • u/jjrs • 11h ago

日本語 Japanese consumers tend to avoid food made with ingredients sourced from China due to the country's lax health standards, but an investigation shows Chinese ingredients show up in menu items at several popular chains, including Starbucks, McDonald's, Torikizoku, Isomaru Suisan and Unagi no Senose.

dailyshincho.jp

128 Upvotes

22 comments

r/japannews • u/jjrs • 10h ago

10 years after son killed by car, Japan father fights smartphone use while driving - The Mainichi

mainichi.jp

110 Upvotes

12 comments

r/japannews • u/jjrs • 19m ago

Japan struggles to attract foreign nurses amid staff shortages due to low pay and tough language requirements. Only 8.5% passed the nursing exam last year- “Filipino nurses speak English, so as the yen weakens they go to Europe or the US...even some Japanese nurses want to go to Europe now"

asia.nikkei.com

• Upvotes

13 comments

r/japannews • u/Tokyometal • 5h ago

Japanese virtual desktop cloud hacked so hard it asks to be banned

theregister.com

44 Upvotes

7 comments

r/japannews • u/BigPapaSlut • 6h ago

日本語 A 33-year-old woman who claims to be an employee of a sex shop is involved in the incident of defrauding 200 million yen of crypto assets from a man in his 70s

news.yahoo.co.jp

27 Upvotes

6 comments

r/japannews • u/jjrs • 10h ago

Japan's new justice minister eager to legalize sole use of maiden names

japantimes.co.jp

26 Upvotes

3 comments

r/japannews • u/jjrs • 10h ago

日本語 A woman was killed in Kanagawa prefecture after driving her car on the Odakyu train tracks for 400 meters

newsdig.tbs.co.jp

12 Upvotes

2 comments

r/japannews • u/jjrs • 19m ago

日本語 Under a new law in Japan, it is a crime for a suspect held by the police to refuse to give them their cell phone password. The first person to be charged with the law is a foreigner

asahi.com

• Upvotes

9 comments

r/japannews • u/jjrs • 11h ago

Security concerns were flagged within Japanese FX trading firm GMO before breach- CEO says they were warned by in-house white-hat hackers of "issues that needed improvement", but that its response was "inadequate in both depth and speed"

japantoday.com

10 Upvotes

0 comments

r/japannews • u/jjrs • 19m ago

日本語 JAL reports cyberattack leak of info for 92,000 customers, including passport numbers

news.livedoor.com

• Upvotes

2 comments

r/japannews • u/jjrs • 10h ago

日本語 Japan's Zensho Holdings (Operator of Sukiya and Hama Sushi) plans rapid expansion of its Saizeriya competitor "Olive Hill" from 60 stores to 500

business.nikkei.com

9 Upvotes

3 comments

r/japannews • u/jjrs • 11h ago

Japan has increasing numbers of vacant homes as elderly die off. An Osaka prefecture city is working to "proactively" put them back on the market by finding houses that seem to be abandoned, tracking down the owners or heirs and connecting them to real estate companies

mainichi.jp

8 Upvotes

1 comment

r/japannews • u/jjrs • 7m ago

日本語 Japan Conservative Party member Kitamura proposes "suspending immigration from certain areas if crime rates are high", citing the French riots.

news.yahoo.co.jp

• Upvotes

4 comments

r/japannews • u/diacewrb • 1h ago

Purported data of GMO clients leaked after ransom denied

asahi.com

• Upvotes

0 comments

r/japannews • u/kenmlin • 18h ago

Ashita no Joe Creator Tetsuya Chiba Dies at 87

animenewsnetwork.com

7 Upvotes

1 comment

r/japannews • u/jjrs • 20m ago

日本語 Yokohama Doctor arrested for defamation of his former nurse- was so angry she quit he sent a fax to her new hospital falsely accusing her of stealing his clinic's funds and giving drugs to other employees

news.livedoor.com

• Upvotes

0 comments

r/japannews • u/jjrs • 10h ago

Former senior Osaka prosecutor changes plea in sexual assault case to not guilty- previously admitted to rape of female subordinate, but now says "I admit to the fact that I engaged in sexual intercourse, but I dispute that the alleged victim was unable to resist"

japantimes.co.jp

6 Upvotes

2 comments

r/japannews • u/jjrs • 10h ago

Japan to compile emergency cybersecurity package by next week- A law effective on Oct.1 enables the government to take "active cyber defense" measures to neutralize threats posed by servers used in cyberattacks. But it is not designed to be activated at request of private companies, such as GMO

mainichi.jp

4 Upvotes

7 comments

r/japannews • u/Prestigious_Net_8356 • 3h ago

Son of former SFCG boss Kenshi Oshima assassinated in Laos street shooting

tokyoreporter.com

5 Upvotes

1 comment

r/japannews • u/jjrs • 10h ago

日本語 Even the LDP's relatively moderate leadership candidates seem bent on changing Japan's constitution. Takaichi's perceived rival former Internal Affairs Minister Hayashi Yoshimasa- "The current constitution has reached its limits; I believe revision is absolutely necessary, even if it's difficult."

news-postseven.com

3 Upvotes

0 comments

r/japannews • u/jjrs • 11h ago

A Short History of Studio Ghibli: Four Decades of Anime Classics- Driven by the creative genius of Miyazaki Hayao and Takahata Isao, Studio Ghibli has crafted a landmark library of anime classics that revolutionized the industry in Japan and reshaped cinema worldwide.

nippon.com

2 Upvotes

0 comments

r/japannews • u/jjrs • 11h ago

A nursery school and elementary school in Hokkaido were closed today after reports of a bear sighting. The bear ate some the Jack-o'-Lanterns that the nursery school had set up outside as Halloween decorations.

x.com

2 Upvotes

0 comments

r/japannews • u/diacewrb • 17h ago

Sapporo man arrested for chainsawing trees to photograph scenic train

tokyoreporter.com

3 Upvotes

0 comments

r/japannews • u/Ohisama001 • 8m left

Japanese baseball faces existential threat as MLB looms for teenage pitching star

nypost.com

• Upvotes

Shoki Oda to skip NPB Draft to pursue MLB dreams
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