Japanese Emperor wishes for a peaceful 2025 after a year of natural disasters

Japanese Emperor wishes for a peaceful 2025 after a year of natural disasters

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito wished for a peaceful year during the 2025 New Year’s greeting held at the Imperial Palace on J...

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Man arrested for writing graffiti at Imperial Palace in Tokyo

Man arrested for writing graffiti at Imperial Palace in Tokyo

Police arrested a 46-year-old man for writing graffiti at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on January 2.He likely went throu...

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Tuna fetches over 200 million yen in first auction of 2025 at Tokyo's Toyosu market

Tuna fetches over 200 million yen in first auction of 2025 at Tokyo's Toyosu market

A bluefin tuna fetched 207 million yen, or about 1.3 million dollars, in the first auction of the year at the Toyosu fis...

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Japans only male sea otter dies

Japans only male sea otter dies

Japan’s only male sea otter Riro died on January 4 at Marine World Uminonakamichi aquarium in Fukuoka City in southweste...

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Alligators, crocodiles, and pond cleaned for the New Year

Alligators, crocodiles, and pond cleaned for the New Year

The annual year-end cleaning of the alligator pond at the Atagawa Tropical & Alligator Garden in Higashi Izu, Shizuoka ...

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Miniatures Museum gets cleaned up for the New Year

Miniatures Museum gets cleaned up for the New Year

NTV Reporter: This is a miniature of Kansai International Airport. The Small Worlds Miniature Museum is one of the lar...

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Uranium detected in fuel debris from Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant

Uranium detected in fuel debris from Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant

This is a photograph of the approximately 0.7 grams of fuel debris first removed in November from the Fukushima Daiichi...

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PM Ishiba pledges to put priority on disaster prevention

PM Ishiba pledges to put priority on disaster prevention

S/ Ishiba Shigeru, Prime Minister of Japan: On New Year's Day, there was an earthquake on the Noto Peninsula. It's been...

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Divers rescued from stranded boat off Okinawa's Kerama islands

Divers rescued from stranded boat off Okinawa's Kerama islands

The Japan Coast Guard rescued divers from a stranded boat off Okinawa's Kerama islands in southwestern Japan.Coast guard...

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Japanese chemical maker to mass produce perovskite solar cells

Japanese chemical maker to mass produce perovskite solar cells

Sekisui Chemical plans to mass produce perovskite solar cells, a new technology said to hold the key to the expansion of...

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