January 17, 2026Universal Studios Japan Announces 5th Anniversary Celebration for Super Nintendo World – Inside Universal Japan
January 17, 20266 ministries hold emergency meeting after multiple cell phone videos of violent bullying in Japanese schools appear on social media, resolve to tell social media sites to cooperate in removing all such videos and “defamatory” posts as they appear Japan
January 17, 2026The US attack on Venezuela is a chance to “change Japan” – Prime Minister Takaichi should be replaced and this should be the beginning of breaking away from being a “vassal state of the US” Japan
January 16, 2026Proposal to temporarily reduce consumption tax rate on food to zero emerges in Takaichi administration’s House of Representatives election manifesto Japan
January 16, 20262025 Year in Review: Progress, Tensions, and What Comes Next for South Korea and Japan Japan
January 16, 2026JFA permanently bans Kageyama from activities with minors, France finds him guilty of child pornography Japan
January 16, 2026A 29-year-old man was arrested in Kagawa Prefecture for allegedly mixing urine into a plastic bottle of drinking water and forcing it onto a woman in her 20s. Japan
