2025-04-19 22:38:00
Just after noon on the 19th, a female high school student who was on a club trip to Mount Mitake in Chichibu City, Saitama Prefecture, fell while descending the mountain and was taken to the hospital, but remains in a coma and in critical condition.
2025-04-19 21:19:00
According to Keisei Electric Railway, services on the Keisei Main Line were suspended on both lines between Keisei Ueno Station and Senju-Ohashi Station due to track inspection work, but resumed at around 8:50 p.m.
2025-04-19 19:21:00
Due to the influence of high pressure and warm air from the south, temperatures continued to rise on the 19th, with Toyooka City in Hyogo Prefecture recording the highest temperature in the country this year at 31.2 degrees, making it the hottest day of the year in many areas. On the 20th, summer days of over 25 degrees are expected in the Kanto and Tokai regions, so please continue to be mindful of your health.
2025-04-19 19:20:00
On the 19th, a Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force vessel became the first foreign vessel to call at Cambodia's Ream Naval Base, which has been undergoing expansion with the assistance of China. As China strengthens its maritime expansion, Japan is also believed to be aiming to strengthen cooperation with Cambodia.
2025-04-19 19:09:00
According to Keisei Electric Railway, due to track inspection work, services on the Keisei Main Line have been suspended on both lines between Keisei Ueno Station and Senju-Ohashi Station since just after 6:00 p.m.
2025-04-19 18:49:00
Due to the influence of high pressure and warm air from the south, temperatures continued to rise on the 19th, with Toyooka City in Hyogo Prefecture recording the highest temperature in the country this year at 31.2 degrees, making it the hottest day of the year in many areas. On the 20th, summer days of over 25 degrees are expected in the Kanto and Tokai regions, so please continue to be mindful of your health.
2025-04-19 18:48:00
In a case where a body believed to be that of an adult was found in a drum can in Yoshikawa City, Saitama Prefecture on the 18th, it was revealed through an interview with the police that the drum can had been recovered from a storage room in Tokorozawa City. The body appears to be that of an elderly woman and there were no visible external injuries, so the police are investigating the contract status of the storage room, among other things.
2025-04-19 18:23:00
Around noon on the 19th, a fire broke out in a 14-story prefectural housing complex in Izumiotsu City, Osaka. According to the fire department, 35 people were taken to the hospital with smoke inhalation, one of whom was seriously injured. Police and firefighters are investigating the cause of the fire.
2025-04-19 17:52:00
Due to the influence of high pressure and warm air from the south, temperatures are rising across the country on the 19th, with maximum temperatures exceeding 30°C in Hyogo and Nagano. Please be careful to take care of your health.
2025-04-19 17:39:00
A state-of-the-art training facility that faithfully reproduced a building that had collapsed in an earthquake was set up at a university in Chiba Prefecture, where medical teams and rescue teams were trained to work together to rescue people trapped under the building.
2025-04-19 17:38:00
People who had fled to Japan from Ukraine and others gathered in Tokyo on the 19th ahead of the Christian Easter holiday, celebrating by painting eggs, which symbolize life, and praying for peace to return to their home country as soon as possible.
2025-04-19 17:36:00
According to the Nagoya City Fire Department, by 3:30 pm on the 19th, three people, one man in his 80s and one man in his 50s, and one woman in her 80s, had been taken to the hospital with suspected heat stroke. All of the symptoms were mild.
2025-04-19 17:36:00
"Public comments" are a method of soliciting opinions from the public in the process of national policy decision-making. While there are usually only a few to a few dozen comments, there have been a series of unusual incidents in recent times where a single policy has received over 10,000 comments. The government has analyzed that a small number of individuals are behind the large number of posts, and has expressed strong concern that this could impede administrative work and undermine the system itself. Who is posting so many comments, and why? Our reporting team was able to speak to several people who had repeatedly called for comments on social media. Here's what they had to say.
2025-04-19 17:35:00
On the 19th, victims of air raids who have still not received compensation from the government 80 years after the end of the war marched through Tokyo, calling for immediate relief for their losses.
2025-04-19 17:05:00
On the morning of the 19th, a truck crashed into a passenger car on the Metropolitan Expressway in Itabashi Ward, Tokyo, causing a total of three accidents, resulting in the death of a two-year-old boy who was in the car that was rear-ended. The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested the 28-year-old driver of the truck and is currently investigating the exact cause of the accident.
2025-04-19 16:40:00
Due to the influence of high pressure and warm air from the south, temperatures are rising across the country on the 19th, with maximum temperatures exceeding 30°C in Hyogo and Nagano. Please be careful to take care of your health.
2025-04-19 16:15:00
According to the Nagoya City Fire Department, by 3:30 pm on the 19th, three people, one man in his 80s and one man in his 50s, and one woman in her 80s, had been taken to the hospital with suspected heat stroke. All of the symptoms were mild.
2025-04-19 15:50:00
On the night of the 18th, an earthquake occurred in northern Nagano Prefecture, and shaking of a maximum seismic intensity of 5-lower was observed in Nagano Prefecture. The Japan Meteorological Agency is calling for caution, as in the past, when large earthquakes occurred inland in shallow areas, including this area, similar earthquakes occurred consecutively for about a week.
2025-04-19 15:16:00
On the 19th, six years after an accident in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, in which an elderly driver's car went out of control and killed a mother and her young child, family members visited the scene of the accident to mourn the two people who died and to appeal for the prevention of traffic accidents.
2025-04-19 15:05:00
Hitomi Soga, who was abducted by North Korea and later returned to Japan, launched a signature campaign in her hometown of Sado, Niigata Prefecture, calling on the government to "hold a Japan-North Korea summit meeting as soon as possible so that all abduction victims can return to their hometowns."
2025-04-19 15:01:00
On the morning of the 19th, a truck crashed into a passenger car on the Metropolitan Expressway in Itabashi Ward, Tokyo, causing a total of three accidents, resulting in the death of a two-year-old boy who was in the car that was rear-ended. According to the Metropolitan Police Department, the scene was congested at the time, and they are currently investigating the exact cause of the accident by questioning the truck driver.
2025-04-19 14:56:00
Around noon on the 19th, a fire broke out on the fourth floor of a 14-story prefectural housing complex in Izumiotsu City, Osaka, and smoke rose to the upper floors. According to the fire department, one person was seriously injured, and the police and fire department are investigating whether anyone was unable to escape.
2025-04-19 13:03:00
The Osaka-Kansai Expo, which opened on the 13th of this month, is celebrating its first Saturday on the 19th, with many people visiting the venue.
2025-04-19 13:00:00
According to the police and fire department, a fire broke out at a high-rise prefectural housing complex in Izumiotsu City, Osaka, around noon on the 19th, and fire engines are currently working to extinguish the fire. According to the police, there are multiple injured people. The police and fire department are checking to see if anyone was unable to escape. The incident occurred in a residential area about 500 meters from Izumi-Fuchu Station on the JR Hanwa Line.
2025-04-19 12:24:00
On the 18th, a body believed to be that of an adult was found in a drum can in Yoshikawa City, Saitama Prefecture. It was revealed through an interview with the police that the drum can had been recovered from a storage room in Tokorozawa City. The body is said to be that of a woman, and the police are investigating the contract status of the storage room.
2025-04-19 12:12:00
On the night of the 18th, an earthquake occurred in northern Nagano Prefecture, and shaking of a maximum seismic intensity of 5-lower was observed in Nagano Prefecture. The Japan Meteorological Agency is calling for caution, as in the past, when large earthquakes occurred inland in shallow areas, including this area, similar earthquakes occurred consecutively for about a week.
2025-04-19 12:03:00
On the 18th, a body believed to be that of an adult was found in a drum can in Yoshikawa City, Saitama Prefecture. It was revealed through an interview with the police that the drum can had been recovered from a storage room in Tokorozawa City. The body is said to be that of a woman, and the police are investigating the contract status of the storage room.
2025-04-19 11:58:00
Due to the influence of high pressure and warm air from the south, temperatures will continue to rise across the country on the 19th, with temperatures reaching over 25°C from mid-morning in central Tokyo and other areas. Temperatures are expected to reach 30°C in some areas during the day, so please be careful to manage your health.
2025-04-19 11:23:00
Due to track construction near Tamachi Station, JR's Yamanote Line and Keihin-Tohoku Line have been suspended on some sections since the first train on the 19th, and alternative transportation is being provided by 15 railways in the Kanto region, including Tokyo Metro.
2025-04-19 10:14:00
On the night of the 18th, an earthquake occurred in northern Nagano Prefecture, with the maximum seismic intensity of 5 lower observed in the prefecture. The Japan Meteorological Agency is calling for caution, as in the past, when large earthquakes occurred inland in shallow areas, including this area, similar earthquakes occurred consecutively for about a week.
2025-04-19 08:27:00
On the night of the 18th, an earthquake occurred in northern Nagano Prefecture, and shaking of a maximum seismic intensity of 5-lower was observed in Nagano Prefecture. The Japan Meteorological Agency is calling for caution, as in the past, large earthquakes that occurred shallow inland, including in this area, have been followed by successive earthquakes of the same magnitude within a week or so.
2025-04-19 08:02:00
Following an accident in Hino City, Tokyo last year in which a man was killed when a ginkgo tree branch fell on him, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism conducted an investigation into the occurrence of similar accidents in parks and on roads, finding that over 1,700 such incidents had occurred nationwide in the approximately three and a half years up to November last year.
2025-04-19 07:48:00
On the 19th, a high pressure system will cover a wide area of the Kanto-Koshinetsu region, causing temperatures to rise in various places, with the maximum temperature in Kumagaya City and Kofu City in Saitama Prefecture expected to reach 30 degrees, a midsummer day. Please be careful of heatstroke as your body is not used to the heat at this time of year.
2025-04-19 07:42:00
In response to a series of sexual assaults committed by U.S. soldiers, U.S. military and police jointly participated in a community safety patrol in Okinawa City's downtown area for the first time.
2025-04-19 07:27:00
On the night of the 18th, an earthquake occurred in northern Nagano Prefecture, and shaking of a maximum seismic intensity of 5-lower was observed in Nagano Prefecture. The Japan Meteorological Agency is calling for caution, as in the past, large earthquakes that occurred shallow inland, including in this area, have been followed by successive earthquakes of the same magnitude within a week or so.
2025-04-19 06:55:00
On the night of the 18th, an earthquake occurred in northern Nagano Prefecture, and shaking of a maximum seismic intensity of 5-lower was observed in Nagano Prefecture. The Japan Meteorological Agency is calling for caution, as in the past, large earthquakes that occurred shallow inland, including in this area, have been followed by successive earthquakes of the same magnitude within a week or so.
2025-04-19 05:46:00
Ahead of the opening of the Osaka-Kansai Expo this month, it has been discovered that a police officer from the Osaka Prefectural Police Headquarters temporarily lost internal documents related to security at the expo. The Osaka Prefectural Police have stated that they will "strive to prevent a recurrence," and the National Police Agency has instructed police forces across the country to thoroughly manage security-related documents.
2025-04-19 05:35:00
In a case where a 21-year-old suspect was arrested for abandoning the body of a high school girl he met through an online game at his home in Aichi Prefecture, it was learned from an interview with an investigator that the suspect has admitted to killing the student, saying, "I had been dissatisfied with her over games for a while, and I got angry." Police plan to re-arrest him soon on suspicion of murder.
2025-04-19 05:32:00
On the 19th, it will be six years since an elderly driver's car went out of control in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, killing a mother and her young child. The victim's family members are saying, "Traffic accidents make no one happy."
2025-04-19 05:12:00
Three weeks have passed since the devastating earthquake in central Myanmar, and in an interview with NHK, a local representative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) called on the international community to cooperate in providing assistance, saying that the local medical system has been weakened since the coup four years ago.
2025-04-19 02:52:00
At around 2:41 a.m. on the 19th, an earthquake measuring 3 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale was observed in Nagano Prefecture. There is no need to worry about a tsunami caused by this earthquake.
2025-04-19 02:08:00
At around 1:53 a.m. on the 19th, an earthquake measuring 3 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale was observed in Nagano Prefecture. There is no need to worry about a tsunami caused by this earthquake.
2025-04-19 01:16:00
At around 1:02 a.m. on the 19th, an earthquake measuring magnitude 4 was observed in Nagano Prefecture. There is no need to worry about a tsunami caused by this earthquake.
2025-04-19 00:46:00
At around 0:08 am on the 19th, an earthquake measuring 3 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale was observed in Nagano Prefecture. There is no need to worry about a tsunami caused by this earthquake.
2025-04-19 00:36:00
Due to track construction near Tamachi Station, JR's Yamanote Line and Keihin-Tohoku Line will be suspended on some sections from the first train on the 19th until around noon on the 20th.
2025-04-19 00:21:00
Following an incident at a school in Nara City in which lightning struck the grounds and six students were taken to hospital during club activities, the Japan Football Association called on coaches across the country to not hesitate to suspend activities if any signs or dangers of lightning are detected.
