Japan bars under-18s from campaigning, even by sharing a candidate's post. On September 25, 2026, a Tokyo court called that ban unconstitutional, yet the four plaintiffs still lost.
Japan made 'mottainai' a global word, yet its restaurants often refuse to box up leftovers. A 2024 government guideline shows why: legally, you are meant to eat it on the premises.
Japan's AMAGOI moonshot starts field trials over Toyama Bay in December 2026, seeding winter snow clouds with dry ice. Its own published flight log shows how hard it is to prove anything worked.
Tokyo's resident registry shows the city added 75,018 people during 2025, and 62,478 of them were foreign residents: 83 percent of the growth. Count only Japanese residents and Tokyo is down 3,238 over five years.
GO, Waymo and Nihon Kotsu want driverless taxis in Tokyo in 2027. Japan has had a permit regime since 2023, but the permits granted so far cover fixed lines: a 2 km cart route, a 700 m shuttle, a busway.
A Japanese team pinned down when CD4 killer T cells start to expand: right around age 100. The study needed blood from ten donors over 110, and the cohort that could supply them took thirty years to build.
Yamanashi wants to charge for off-season helicopter rescues on Mount Fuji, 8,000 yen per five minutes. Its own document calls it a package against reckless climbing. Is free rescue too cheap, or does a meter delay calls?
A decryption tool built by Japan's police has restored about 20 million files for 41 companies since February 2024. It is free and used in more than 100 countries, and it still reaches only a fraction of victims.
A 200,000-yen temple room and a 100-million-yen tax finding surfaced at Koyasan in the same week. Where that price actually sits, why Japanese law taxes the bed but not the offering, and how to book a night.
JR East opened public voting on three successors to the Suica penguin, and about 58% of Japanese posts turned negative. What they object to, why the 2018 Takanawa Gateway vote poisoned the well, and why it may not last.
Japan culled 1,381,700 deer and wild boar in fiscal 2024, and 5.6 percent of that mass became meat. The rest goes to a hole in the ground or an incinerator, and the capacity is not there. Scotland does it differently.