2025-05-24 22:47:00
Due to the influence of a front and a low pressure system, heavy rain is falling mainly in the Kinki and Tokai regions. In Tokushima Prefecture, there are areas where the risk of landslides is extremely high due to the rain that has fallen so far, so strict caution is required.
2025-05-24 21:13:00
On the morning of the 24th, a 16-year-old high school student was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after he stabbed his father to death with a knife at his home in Minami-Alps City, Yamanashi Prefecture. The father was later confirmed dead, and the police will change the charge to murder and investigate the details.
2025-05-24 20:37:00
On the afternoon of the 24th, a crane crashed into a sidewalk in Katsushika Ward, Tokyo, injuring four people, including two children. All of them are conscious, and the Metropolitan Police Department is investigating the details of the accident.
2025-05-24 19:22:00
Due to the influence of a front and low pressure, heavy rain is falling in Shikoku. In Tokushima Prefecture, there are areas where the risk of landslides is extremely high, so strict caution is required.
2025-05-24 19:21:00
It has come to light that an online textbook by the company that runs "Try Tutoring" contained a factually incorrect statement about Minamata disease, one of the four major pollution-related diseases, such as "The scary thing about this disease is that it's hereditary," and that groups made up of Minamata disease patients had asked the company to make a correction. The company apologized on its website, saying that the statement was "inaccurate," and announced that it had removed the relevant part.
2025-05-24 19:03:00
According to JR East, due to smoke coming from the tracks near Omiya Station, services were suspended on both the Takasaki Line between Tokyo Station and Takasaki Station, and on the Shonan-Shinjuku Line between Shinjuku Station and Takasaki Station, but service resumed just now at 6:46 pm.
2025-05-24 18:56:00
On the morning of the 24th, a 16-year-old high school student was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after he stabbed his father to death with a knife at his home in Minami-Alps City. The father was found in a state of cardiac arrest, and the high school student has admitted to the charges.
2025-05-24 18:43:00
With Megumi Yokota's mother now the only surviving parent of the victims the government has recognized as having been abducted by North Korea, the families of the victims held a large rally in Tokyo, calling for government efforts and North Korea's decision to return the children to Japan as soon as possible, as time is limited.
2025-05-24 18:05:00
Victims of air raids during the last war and their supporters held a rally in Tokyo, calling for the early passage of a bill to provide relief to air raid victims, which was compiled this month by a cross-party group of Diet members.
2025-05-24 17:59:00
According to JR East, due to safety checks being conducted on the tracks near Omiya Station, service has been suspended on both the inbound and outbound lines on the Takasaki Line between Tokyo Station and Takasaki Station, and on the Shonan-Shinjuku Line between Shinjuku Station and Takasaki Station, since just after 5 p.m. There is no prospect of service resuming.
2025-05-24 17:56:00
With Megumi Yokota's mother now the only surviving parent of the victims the government has recognized as having been abducted by North Korea, the families of the victims held a large rally in Tokyo, calling for government efforts and North Korea's decision to return the children to Japan as soon as possible, as time is limited.
2025-05-24 17:50:00
In Ayasato, Sanriku Town, where many homes and other buildings were damaged in the forest fire in Ofunato City, Iwate Prefecture, residents began moving into temporary housing on the 24th.
2025-05-24 17:46:00
On the afternoon of the 24th, a crane crashed into a sidewalk in Katsushika Ward, Tokyo, injuring four people, including two children. All of them are conscious, and the Metropolitan Police Department is investigating the details of the accident.
2025-05-24 17:36:00
According to JR East, JR Chuo Line rapid trains had been suspended on both lines between Tokyo Station and Shinjuku Station due to a fatal accident that occurred around 4:00 p.m., but service resumed just now at around 5:15 p.m.
2025-05-24 17:35:00
In Awasakicho, Kanazawa City, which suffered liquefaction damage in the Noto Peninsula earthquake, the city is conducting a demonstration experiment before starting countermeasure construction work, and a tour was held for residents on the 24th.
2025-05-24 17:33:00
The Emperor visited Saitama Prefecture to coincide with the National Tree Planting Festival and inspected a prefectural research facility in Iruma City responsible for promoting the local specialty, Sayama tea.
2025-05-24 16:56:00
According to JR East, JR Chuo Line rapid trains had been suspended on the entire line between Tokyo Station and Takao Station due to a fatal accident that occurred around 4:00 PM, but service on both lines between Shinjuku Station and Takao Station resumed around 4:30 PM. Service remains suspended between Tokyo Station and Shinjuku Station.
2025-05-24 16:53:00
A ceremony to hand over the carriages transferred from Odakyu Electric Railway to Seibu Railway was held in Shinjuku, Tokyo on the 24th, ahead of the start of commercial operation at the end of May after refurbishing the carriages.
2025-05-24 16:44:00
On the morning of the 24th, a horse participating in the traditional festival "Soma Nomaoi" collided with a train in Minamisoma City, Fukushima Prefecture. According to police and other sources, the horse was waiting for the train to pass at a railroad crossing when it fell into a nearby ditch and entered the tracks. The horse died on the spot, but no passengers were injured.
2025-05-24 13:39:00
According to Kagoshima Prefecture, the Shinkawa River, which flows through Kagoshima City, exceeded the flood danger level at the Tagamibashi observation station, but fell below that level around 1:00 p.m.
2025-05-24 13:18:00
On the night of the 23rd, police arrested a male high school student from Nagoya City who had been taken into custody in neighboring Thailand and returned to Japan, for allegedly making false phone calls to a man in Mie Prefecture, posing as a police officer, from a base for special fraud in Myanmar, and defrauding him of over 9 million yen in cash. The high school student had responded to voluntary questioning after returning to Japan, but it is said that he had become unreachable a few days ago.
2025-05-24 13:05:00
According to Kagoshima Prefecture, the Shinkawa River, which flows through Kagoshima City, exceeded the flood danger level at the Tagamibashi observation station at around 12:40 pm. The prefecture is calling for people to pay close attention to future information.
2025-05-24 11:59:00
Heavy rain is falling in Kyushu and other areas due to the influence of a front and a low pressure system. Localized very heavy rain is likely to fall in western and eastern Japan through the 25th, and the Japan Meteorological Agency is calling for caution against landslides, flooding of low-lying areas, rising rivers, and flooding.
2025-05-24 10:09:00
Rain is getting stronger mainly in Kyushu due to the influence of a front and a low pressure system. Heavy rain is also expected in eastern Japan through the 25th, and the Japan Meteorological Agency is calling for caution against landslides, flooding of low-lying areas, and rising and overflowing rivers.
2025-05-24 09:23:00
The National Police Agency is calling for caution after a series of new types of specialized fraud involving lewd acts, such as people being tricked into handing over cash over the phone by people claiming to be police officers and then being asked to strip naked over a video call.
2025-05-24 08:29:00
On the 24th, it will be 28 years since Jun Hajime, a sixth grade elementary school student, was murdered by a 14-year-old boy in a serial child murder case that occurred in Kobe City in 1997. Jun's father has written a letter to various media outlets, calling for further improvement of the support system for crime victims.
2025-05-24 07:51:00
On the evening of the 23rd, a fire broke out at a factory near Haneda Airport in Ota Ward, Tokyo, and the fire was mostly extinguished by the morning of the 24th, more than half a day later. Approximately 2,800 square meters was burned, and a man in his 30s was injured by smoke inhalation, but his life is not in danger.
2025-05-24 07:22:00
On the 23rd it was five years since professional wrestler Kimura Hana passed away after being subjected to slander on social media for comments and actions made on the Fuji TV program "Terrace House." Her mother, Kyoko, who continues to work to eliminate slander and abuse from society, said, "We are working with the idea that we are 'sowing seeds,' and we don't know when the 'flowers' will bloom, but we want to create a world where people support each other, not one where they attack each other."
2025-05-24 05:59:00
Rain is getting stronger mainly in Kyushu due to the influence of a front and a low pressure system. Heavy rain is also expected in eastern Japan through the 25th, and the Japan Meteorological Agency is calling for caution against landslides, flooding of low-lying areas, and rising and overflowing rivers.
2025-05-24 05:15:00
It has been one month since the announcement that all four giant pandas kept at a theme park in Shirahama, Wakayama Prefecture, would be returned to China. Preparations are underway at the theme park to send the four pandas off ahead of their return at the end of next month.
2025-05-24 04:29:00
In order to popularize "preconception care," a concept that encourages people, regardless of gender, to acquire correct knowledge about pregnancy and childbirth from an early stage and to focus on their own health, the Agency for Children and Families plans to promote efforts such as training more than 50,000 "preconception supporters" to raise awareness over the next five years.
2025-05-24 03:35:00
On the 23rd, an American man was arrested on suspicion of spraying tear gas at a shopping mall in Inzai City, Chiba Prefecture, injuring people nearby in the face and throat.
2025-05-24 02:00:00
Two Liberal Democratic Party Diet members from Toyama Prefecture were criminally indicted on suspicion of violating the Political Funds Control Law in connection with a faction political fundraising party, and were not indicted last year. However, this month the Prosecutor's Office decided that the decision not to indict was unjust. The prosecution will reinvestigate the case and decide again whether to indict them.
2025-05-24 01:49:00
In the case of the Hyogo Prefectural Governor Saito's whistleblower document, it was learned from an interview with a related person that the prefecture's third-party committee has determined that the former director of the general affairs department leaked private information of the former director who prepared the document to a prefectural assembly member. The prefecture is considering taking disciplinary action against the former director of the general affairs department.
2025-05-24 00:30:00
It has come to light that an online teaching material from the company that runs "Try Tutoring" contained a factually incorrect statement about Minamata disease, one of the four major pollution-related diseases, such as "The scary thing about this disease is that it's hereditary," and that an organization made up of Minamata disease patients and others had requested the company to make a correction. The content has already been deleted and is no longer accessible.
