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October 2026

  • Costumed as a cheering squad member, a man shouts into a megaphone, wearing a headband

    Japan’s Jimi Halloween, a celebration of all things mundane – in pictures

    Gallery13
  • A smiling businessman holds a phone to his mouth while standing on a train

    One man’s war on the scourge of sodcasting

  • The company behind the successful Hello Kitty franchise has apologised and ended its commercial tie-up with a Japanese TV drama after backlash from China.

    Hello Kitty company cuts ties with Japanese spy show after China outcry

  • A US navy jet lands at Kadena Air Base in Kadena, Okinawa prefecture, Japan

    US bans vehicles from China’s BYD at Japan military base, calling them ‘unacceptable’ risk

  • Japanese prosecutors charge US marine suspected of robbing and killing woman

  • Never After Dark review – ghostbuster-for-hire meets her match in Japanese exorcism horror

  • Weather tracker
    Typhoon Champi declared strongest storm of year so far

  • A child of Japanese incarceration’s call to arms: ‘The lessons of Manzanar have never been more urgent’

  • Fine ‘headphone dodgers’ if you will, but to really tackle antisocial behaviour, Britain should look to Japan

    Emily Bratt

  • Typhoon Champi kills one and injures more than 500 in Taiwan as it heads to China

  • Ryu Murakami, cult Japanese author, dies aged 74

  • Weather tracker
    Severe flooding in eastern Spain and UK hit by first named storm of winter

  • Brief letters
    Storm names should tell a story or two

  • Take a stroll between Japan’s past and present – in pictures

    Gallery13

  • Full Story
    Can Japan’s firebrand PM survive a second year in power? – Full Story podcast

    Podcast21:19

  • Sanae Takaichi took on Japan’s male-dominated politics and won – can she survive a second year in power?

  • Getting Ziggy with it: David Bowie’s alter egos inspire dance show that will transform his songs

  • ‘Once-in-a-lifetime chance’: Japan launches historic mission to collect rocks from Mars’s moon Phobos

  • Three deaths from float crushes raise safety concerns over Japanese festivals

  • ‘No influencers’: the hotels, restaurants and beauty spots restricting photoshoots

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