Japanese news in English is thinner than it looks.
The English-language Japanese press is a fraction of the domestic one, and what does get translated skews to whatever an international audience is assumed to care about. Read only that and you get a version of Japan assembled for outsiders.
shortnews.be reads The Japan Times and The Mainichi in English and NHK in Japanese, then summarises to 60 words. The NHK line matters: it means domestic stories reach the feed whether or not an English desk decided they were worth translating that day.
Japan gets its own tab, next to Belgium. Same format, same length, same lack of click-bait — one swipe from the Belgian news you also need to keep up with.
Mainstream American politicians are increasingly willing to describe themselves as socialists, marking a notable change in the country’s political debate. Voters, meanwhile, appear more rece…
Ozeki Kirishima delivered a confident showing in practice Friday in Tokyo ahead of his second consecutive bid for promotion to yokozuna. He faced fellow ozeki Onosato in training bouts as bo…
Robot penguins are entertaining visitors at a theme park in Wakayama, Japan. One machine impressed onlookers by moving its flippers to steer and diving deeper while swimming alongside real p…
Nidec says an investigation into quality-control practices identified 844 irregularities. The panel conducting the review was established in May, after the motor maker disclosed more than 1,…
Millions of people are using solar panels and batteries to generate electricity and sell surplus power back to the grid. The trend is opening a potential income stream for households with th…
Animal shelters in Kumamoto, southwestern Japan, received 272 reports of missing pets by Aug. 25 following a magnitude 7.1 earthquake. Fewer than half of the animals had been found, highligh…
Flooding in Nepal has devastated merchants and traders just before the country’s crucial Hindu festival season. The period, running from September through November, is typically marked by ce…
The U.S. dollar rebounded into the 156-yen range in Tokyo on Friday after briefly falling to the lower 155-yen level. The move followed a sharp earlier decline. Investors were encouraged by …
Japan's Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama said Friday that U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent made no specific demands about Japan’s monetary policy. Her comments, delivered in Tokyo, rej…
Japan’s legal panel may consider tighter rules on how evidence is used in civil trials. The current Code of Civil Procedure does not prohibit parties from using evidence or confidential info…
Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi said on Sept. 4 that the government is not considering allowing foreign nationals to serve in Japan’s Self-Defense Forces. He made the remarks duri…
Corporate venture capital is gaining ground in Japan, as companies increasingly view startup investment as a necessary part of business strategy. The approach was previously considered a poo…
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