2025-04-28 23:25:00
In response to the issue of many foreigners, including Japanese, being involved in specialized fraud and other crimes in crime hotspots in Myanmar, a senior official from the Japanese National Police Agency visited neighboring Thailand and reaffirmed their intention to strengthen cooperation with local police in order to eliminate criminal organizations.
2025-04-28 21:55:00
Yoshimoto Kogyo, the management agency of popular comedy duo Reiwa Roman's Takahira Kuruma, announced on the 28th that it had terminated its management contract with him. The duo will continue their activities, and Takahira also announced that he will resume his entertainment activities, which he had suspended due to playing online casino games.
2025-04-28 21:08:00
On the evening of the 28th, a Sanyo Shinkansen train collided with a person in Onomichi City, Hiroshima Prefecture. As a result, the Sanyo Shinkansen was suspended for two hours on both lines between Shin-Osaka Station and Hakata Station, and some trains were delayed by up to two and a half hours.
2025-04-28 21:03:00
On the evening of the 28th, an accident involving three vehicles, including a truck, occurred at an intersection in Nagaokakyo City, Kyoto Prefecture, leaving seven people, including three children, injured. The police are currently investigating the details of the accident.
2025-04-28 20:42:00
On the 26th, a multiple accident involving 11 vehicles and three deaths on the Tohoku Expressway in Tochigi Prefecture was triggered by a wrong-way car, and police have learned that the dashcam of the car that first collided with the wrong-way car recorded the wrong-way car trying to avoid a collision. However, the wrong-way car continued to travel nearly 3 kilometers before colliding head-on with another car, and police are currently investigating the details of the incident.
2025-04-28 20:00:00
According to the JR West website, the Sanyo Shinkansen was suspended between Shin-Osaka and Hakata stations after a train came into contact with a person between Fukuyama and Shin-Onomichi stations, but resumed service at 7:50 p.m.
2025-04-28 19:41:00
On the 28th, it will be one month since the big earthquake that hit central Myanmar last month. In the affected areas, as people continue to live outdoors as evacuees, the number of people falling ill and complaining of mental stress is increasing, and the issue of how to provide medical support is becoming an issue.
2025-04-28 19:24:00
Due to the continuing spread of equine influenza among racehorses in the Ban'ei Horse Racing event hosted by Obihiro City in Hokkaido, the city has decided to cancel the races scheduled for three days from May 3rd, following the three days up to the 28th.
2025-04-28 19:03:00
Amid rising rice prices, it was discovered that approximately 420 kilograms of brown rice had gone missing from a residential warehouse in Chikusei City, Ibaraki Prefecture, in the middle of this month. There have been eight similar incidents in Ibaraki Prefecture this month, and the police are investigating the incidents as thefts and urging people to be vigilant.
2025-04-28 19:02:00
On the evening of the 28th, an accident involving three vehicles, including a truck, occurred at an intersection in Nagaokakyo City, Kyoto Prefecture, and seven people, including three children, were injured and taken to the hospital. All of the victims were conscious when they were taken to the hospital, and the police are currently investigating the details of the accident.
2025-04-28 18:52:00
On the 28th, it will be three months since the large-scale road collapse in Yashio City, Saitama Prefecture. Fire departments are checking cooperation with other fire departments that are expected to assist in the event that they take on a full-scale search for a man believed to be trapped in a sewer pipe. Saitama Prefecture is also moving wastewater through bypass pipes, and is expected to begin search operations after confirming safety.
2025-04-28 18:46:00
According to JR West, the Sanyo Shinkansen has suspended operations on both lines between Shin-Osaka Station and Hakata Station due to a fatal accident that occurred in Hiroshima Prefecture. JR West said it expects operations to resume around 8:30 pm.
2025-04-28 18:27:00
On the 28th, it will be one month since the big earthquake that hit central Myanmar last month. In the affected areas, as people continue to live outdoors as evacuees, the number of people falling ill and complaining of mental stress is increasing, and the issue of how to provide medical support is becoming an issue.
2025-04-28 17:57:00
On the 26th, a multiple accident involving 11 vehicles and three deaths on the Tohoku Expressway in Tochigi Prefecture was triggered by a wrong-way car, and police have learned that the dashcam of the car that first collided with the wrong-way car recorded the wrong-way car trying to avoid a collision. However, the wrong-way car continued to travel nearly 3 kilometers before colliding head-on with another car, and police are currently investigating the details of the incident.
2025-04-28 17:50:00
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has announced that a 0-year-old boy who had traveled to Vietnam has been infected with measles.
2025-04-28 17:11:00
The oldest person in Japan, a woman from Toki City, Gifu Prefecture, passed away on the 26th. She was 115 years old.
2025-04-28 17:05:00
The major earthquake that hit Myanmar caused damage in Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, more than 1,000 km from the epicenter, due to the long, slow shaking known as "long-period seismic motion." Experts analyzed local observation data and found that in skyscrapers with around 60 floors, which were thought to have been the most affected, the shaking amplitude was about 1.6 meters, which was similar to the shaking in Tokyo during the Great East Japan Earthquake.
2025-04-28 16:08:00
It has been discovered that students from the National Defense Academy of Japan were involved in streaming videos supporting a specific candidate in the mayoral election of Uruma City, Okinawa Prefecture, which was held on the 27th. The Ministry of Defense is investigating the possibility that this may be in violation of the Self-Defense Forces Act, which restricts the political activities of members of the Self-Defense Forces.
2025-04-28 14:58:00
In a case where a 21-year-old acquaintance of the suspect was arrested for abandoning the body of a 35-year-old nursery school teacher on the beach in Iwanuma City, Miyagi Prefecture, it was learned from an interview with an investigator that the suspect was caught alone on security cameras in the area around the scene about an hour after the woman was last seen. Police believe that the suspect abandoned the body during this time and are currently investigating the details.
2025-04-28 14:54:00
On the morning of the 28th, during the demolition of a warehouse in an industrial area of Kawasaki City, a part of the building's floor collapsed, entangling five workers, one of whom died and four others sustained serious or minor injuries. Police are currently investigating the details of the accident.
2025-04-28 14:37:00
A 31-year-old amateur fighter was arrested by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department for possession of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking. It is believed he was cultivating the plant at his home, and pieces of marijuana believed to be worth 2 million yen at street value were seized.
2025-04-28 14:31:00
It has been one month since the devastating earthquake struck central Myanmar. Many people in the affected areas are still forced to live outdoors as refugees, and ongoing support is needed to help them rebuild their lives.
2025-04-28 14:26:00
Among the areas affected by the Myanmar earthquake, the northwestern Sagaing region, where fighting between the military and pro-democracy forces has been ongoing since the coup four years ago, is close to the epicenter, but the military has continued to carry out intermittent airstrikes since the earthquake, and the full extent of the damage caused by the earthquake is yet to be revealed. NHK analyzed the damage in Sagaing, a town close to the epicenter, using satellite images.
2025-04-28 14:22:00
Ahead of the opening of the Preparatory Committee for the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), which discusses the direction of global nuclear disarmament, in New York on the 28th, three organizations, including the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, have sent a letter to U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Putin, urging them to meet face-to-face and agree to the abolition of nuclear weapons.
2025-04-28 14:18:00
The guidelines for the operation of the training and employment system to secure specialized foreign human resources have been finalized. In order to prevent human resources from concentrating in urban areas, eight prefectures including Tokyo are designated as "metropolitan areas" and the number of people accepted is limited to a certain extent, while more quotas are set for regional companies.
2025-04-28 14:10:00
This year's long holiday has begun. There are many things to enjoy, such as sightseeing and returning home, but we will explain how to avoid traffic jams during the long holiday.
2025-04-28 11:56:00
On the morning of the 28th, part of a building material fell from a construction site in the industrial area of Kawasaki City during demolition, injuring four people and leaving one person stranded at the scene, with rescue efforts ongoing.
2025-04-28 11:42:00
The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department has arrested two suspects, including a 23-year-old man believed to be the leader of a group, for breaking into a construction site for a new apartment building and stealing copper wire cables.
2025-04-28 09:04:00
Due to the fatal accident, Keio Line services were suspended on both lines between Shinjuku Station and Sakurajosui Station, but services resumed just after 8:50 a.m.
2025-04-28 08:31:00
It has been one month since the devastating earthquake struck central Myanmar. Many people in the affected areas are still forced to live outdoors as refugees, and ongoing support is needed to help them rebuild their lives.
2025-04-28 08:05:00
On the 28th, it will be three months since the large-scale road collapse in Yashio City, Saitama Prefecture. A full-scale search for a man believed to be trapped in a sewer pipe has not yet begun, but a certain amount of sewage, which is obstructing the search, has begun to flow into the bypass pipe completed last week, and the prefecture is rushing to take measures to support the search, such as draining the water with pumps.
2025-04-28 07:51:00
The Bank of Japan will hold a meeting to decide on monetary policy from the 30th of this month. At this meeting, the latest outlook for the economy and prices up to the fiscal year 2027 will be presented, but there are many opinions within the Bank of Japan that both the growth rate and the rate of price increase will be lower than previously predicted due to the implementation of tariff measures by the Trump administration.
2025-04-28 07:04:00
According to Keio Electric Railway, due to a fatal accident, Keio Line services have been suspended on both lines between Shinjuku Station and Sakurajosui Station since around 6:40 a.m. Service is expected to resume around 7:50 a.m.
2025-04-28 07:01:00
The job offer ratio for students who plan to graduate from universities and other institutions next March was 1.66, a slight decrease from the previous year, but it remains at a high level. Due to the labor shortage, the "seller's market" continues.
2025-04-28 06:20:00
It has been one month since the devastating earthquake struck central Myanmar. Many people in the affected areas are still forced to live outdoors as refugees, and ongoing support is needed to help them rebuild their lives.
2025-04-28 05:44:00
In an effort to support those affected by the Noto Peninsula earthquake, a charity auction of colored paper illustrations by over 200 manga artists, initiated by Go Nagai, a manga artist from Wajima City, Ishikawa Prefecture, and others, began on the 28th.
2025-04-28 05:43:00
On the 26th, three people were killed and 10 injured in a wrong-way car accident on the Tohoku Expressway in Nasushiobara City, Tochigi Prefecture. The car is believed to have entered a nearby interchange and traveled for over three kilometers. Police are analyzing dashcam footage to investigate the circumstances surrounding the wrong-way car and the details of the accident.
2025-04-28 05:39:00
In a case in which a 21-year-old acquaintance of the suspect was arrested for abandoning the body of a 35-year-old female nursery school teacher on a beach in Iwanuma City, Miyagi Prefecture, it has been revealed that the suspect told officials at the kickboxing gym he belongs to, "The woman came to support my matches once. I met her to give her a ticket."
2025-04-28 05:17:00
The recipients of the Spring Medal of Honor, which is awarded to people who have devoted themselves to a field for many years or those who have made outstanding achievements in the fields of arts and sports, have been announced. The recipients include world-renowned French chef Kiyomi Mikuni and choreographer Ryohei Kondo, and are 607 individuals and 22 organizations.
