Typhoon Hinnamnor is passing near Japan's Ogasawara Islands on Monday evening. Weather officials are warning of strong winds, heavy rain and the possibility of mudslides in the remote island group.
They forecast that the typhoon will develop further as it moves toward the islands of Okinawa Prefecture, where it may bring violent winds as early as Wednesday.
The Nikkei Average fell sharply on Monday to finish below the 28,000 mark for the first time in nearly 3 weeks. The drop followed sell-offs in New York on Friday.
Investors were reacting to comments from US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, who said the central bank will continue to raise interest rates to curb inflation. That raised worries that tighter policy could cool down the economy.
A senior official of Japan's leading opposition party has called for Prime Minister Kishida Fumio to appear before the Diet to explain why the government is holding a state funeral for former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo.
The Diet affairs chief of the Constitutional Democratic Party, Azumi Jun, made his request at a meeting with his Liberal Democratic Party counterpart, Takagi Tsuyoshi, on Monday.
Survivors of the 1945 atomic-bombing of Hiroshima have criticized the failure to reach consensus on nuclear disarmament at the review conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
Representatives of survivors groups in Hiroshima Prefecture held a news conference on Monday.
Japan and the United States have launched joint exercises including live firings of the Javelin anti-tank missile.
The Javelin is a portable weapon that the US has supplied to Ukraine.
Japan's main ruling party is to urge the government to step up decontamination work in areas designated as "difficult-to-return zones" after the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident.
Lawmakers with the Liberal Democratic Party have compiled proposals for rebuilding the areas affected by the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disasters.
Two Japanese nationals who returned home after being abducted by North Korea decades ago have called for all other abductees to be rescued as soon as possible.
Soga Hitomi and Hasuike Kaoru spoke at a rally in Niigata Prefecture on Sunday.
Young people in the southern Japanese prefecture of Okinawa have performed the traditional "eisa" dance at a festival in Uruma City that was canceled for two years due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Five groups took part in the event over the weekend.
Japan has slipped to 12th place internationally in the number of scientific papers cited as references. The number of citations is often seen as an indicator of the quality of research papers.
Japan's National Institute of Science and Technology Policy analyzed scientific papers covering 22 natural science areas, such as biology and physics, published from 2018 to 2020.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government confirmed 15,834 new cases of the coronavirus on Sunday, down 8,946 from a week earlier.
The daily tally marks the seventh straight day of week-on-week declines.
Japanese former Major League Baseball star, Suzuki Ichiro has been inducted into the Seattle Mariners Hall of Fame.
An induction ceremony was held at the team's home field in Seattle on Saturday.
The Japan Meteorological Agency says a tropical storm developed south of the country's main island of Honshu on Sunday afternoon.
Agency officials say Hinnamnor, with a central atmospheric pressure of 1,004 hectopascals, was in waters near Minamitorishima in the Ogasawara Islands around 3 p.m. They say the storm is moving northwest at a speed of 20 kilometers per hour, packing winds of 64.8 kilometers per hour near its center and gusts of 90 kilometers per hour.
Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio is holding online talks with African leaders as part of the eighth Tokyo International Conference on African Development, or TICAD, currently being held in Tunisia.
Kishida, the co-host of TICAD 8, is taking part remotely while he recovers from COVID.
Fireworks have illuminated the night sky in northern Japan for the first time in three years with the lifting of coronavirus restrictions.
The Omagari fireworks competition in Akita Prefecture drew a big crowd to the banks of the Omono River in Daisen city on Saturday night.