A Japanese rail operator is getting on track for a greener future by recycling metal from old bullet train cars.
Central Japan Railway Company has developed technology to give a new lease of life to aluminum from the 700-series Shinkansen it retired in March last year.
The Himeyuri Peace Museum in the southern Japanese prefecture of Okinawa is set to reopen with new exhibits on Monday.
The museum is dedicated to female students who were mobilized to nurse injured soldiers during the Battle of Okinawa in 1945. Many of the Himeyuri students lost their lives in the closing days of World War Two.
Coronavirus vaccinations for about 36 million elderly people aged 65 and older will begin in Japan on Monday.
The vaccine developed by US pharmaceutical company Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech has been administered to medical workers in Japan since February.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government says it confirmed 421 new cases of the coronavirus in the capital on Sunday.
The number has increased by 66 from last Sunday. The daily tally has surpassed the figure from a week earlier for 11 consecutive days.
Golfer Matsuyama Hideki has become the solo leader at the end of the third round of the men's Masters Tournament.
The 29-year-old Japanese golfer started Saturday's round in sixth place, three strokes behind the leader.
The number of coronavirus cases in Japan continues to trend upward. Tokyo has recorded the highest daily count since the second state of emergency ended there in March. Osaka Prefecture has reported a new peak.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government reported 570 new cases on Saturday. That number is up 124 from the figure confirmed one week ago.
Osaka reported 918 new coronavirus cases on Saturday, a record high for the western Japanese prefecture.
The daily tally has surpassed 900 for the second time, following Thursday, when 905 new infections were reported.
Members of a government panel on the coronavirus say the spread of infections in Japan this winter was aggravated by people attending year-end parties, especially in nightlife districts after 9 p.m.
The panel analyzed data including crowd numbers and social media topics during the third wave of infections this winter.
The governments of Japan and India are arranging a meeting of their foreign and defense ministers in Tokyo later this month.
Japan's foreign minister Motegi Toshimitsu and defense minister Kishi Nobuo are due to attend. From India, External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and defense minister Rajnath Singh will take part.
NHK has learned that the number of cancer surgeries performed at a Tokyo hospital plunged last year. The trend is being attributed to a fall in screenings due to fears about the coronavirus pandemic.
Annually, the Cancer Institute Hospital normally performs about 500 stomach cancer surgeries, and about 1,200 breast cancer surgeries.
Coronavirus testing centers are set to open at Tokyo's Haneda Airport.
The labs will offer PCR and antigen tests for passengers. Results of the antigen tests can be ready in as little as 15 minutes.
The NHK Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo says Italian maestro Fabio Luisi will become its new chief conductor from September 2022.
Luisi, who is 62, has served as general music director of the Staatskapelle Dresden in Germany and principal conductor of the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government says it confirmed 537 new cases of coronavirus infections in the capital on Friday.
The daily tally has exceeded 500 for three straight days.
Japan's fisheries minister has stressed the importance of measures against what he calls baseless rumors related to the disposal of radioactive wastewater at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Nogami Kotaro said on Friday that people in the fisheries industry are facing hardships in their reconstruction efforts after the 2011 nuclear accident. He said that it is obvious that they are concerned about the possible effects of releasing the treated wastewater into the sea.