A Japanese supercomputer has been declared the world's most powerful for the first time in nine years.
Fugaku, developed by the RIKEN research institute and electronics giant Fujitsu, took the first place in a twice-yearly speed ranking which was announced by an international conference of experts on Monday.
A growing number of students in Okinawa says they have no one around them to tell them what really happened in the southwestern Japanese prefecture during World War Two.
More than 1,600 students in their second year of high school in Okinawa responded to a once-in-five-year survey done by a local research group.
People in Japan's southwestern prefecture of Okinawa are observing 75 years since the end of fierce ground battles in the closing days of World War Two.
More than 200,000 people lost their lives in the fight, including a quarter of the residents of Okinawa.
A Japanese government panel is calling for increased investment in digitization to address problems that surfaced during the coronavirus outbreak.
The Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy on Monday presented a draft of this year's basic policies for economic and fiscal management to be adopted in July.
A city in Japan's southern prefecture has passed a bill to change the administrative name of a group of islands under its authority to officially include the name "Senkaku" for the first time.
The move is drawing criticism from China and Taiwan, which both claim the territory as their own.
An NHK poll shows that the disapproval rate for Prime Minister Abe Shinzo's Cabinet is at its highest since the launch of his second administration in December 2012.
The survey was conducted over the weekend. More than 1,200 people responded.
More people in Japan crossed prefectural borders on the first weekend since the government eased restrictions on such travel.
Cell phone data show the number of people who went from Tokyo to other prefectures on Saturday and Sunday rose 11 percent from the previous week. Travel to Tokyo from other prefectures grew by 14 percent.
The Ishigaki City assembly in Okinawa prefecture, southern Japan, has passed a bill to change the name of an administrative area covering the Senkaku Islands to include the name "Senkaku."
Japan controls the islands. The Japanese government maintains the islands are an inherent part of Japan's territory. China and Taiwan claim them.
People in many parts of Asia and Africa observed a partial solar eclipse on Sunday.
The Moon started passing directly between the Sun and the Earth at around 4 p.m. on Sunday, Japan time.
Japan's government plans to hold a National Security Council meeting this week and withdraw the plan to deploy a land-based missile defense system called Aegis Ashore.
The government announced the suspension of the deployment plan last week.
Japan's Prime Minister Abe Shinzo has expressed his hope to hold a national referendum on constitutional amendment during his tenure as president of the governing Liberal Democratic Party. His time in that position will end in September of next year.
Abe spoke to former Osaka mayor Hashimoto Toru in an online program on Saturday. He said he still has one year and three months left in office as a leader of the party.
People in Japan are moving about again on the first weekend since authorities lifted cross-country travel restrictions. On Saturday, crowds were seen venturing to distant tourist attractions.
NHK footage of the Tomei expressway shows the roadway is packed with vehicles. The cars are moving at a crawl. This is the first weekend since the government lifted the nationwide request to refrain from cross-prefectural travel.
The Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force has confirmed that a foreign submarine navigated an area just outside Japan's territorial waters without surfacing this week. Defense officials say they believe the submarine belongs to the Chinese Navy.
Defense Ministry officials say MSDF destroyers and patrol planes first spotted the submarine on Thursday afternoon in the contiguous zone northeast of Amami-Oshima Island in Japan's southwestern prefecture of Kagoshima. They say it was moving west and that the MSDF kept it under observation.
Sources say former Justice Minister Kawai Katsuyuki was found to have given money to local politicians in Hiroshima on multiple occasions to secure votes for his wife Kawai Anri, who won a seat in last July's Upper House election.
Both were formerly with the main ruling Liberal Democratic Party. They are suspected of giving a total of 25 million 700,000 yen or about 240,000 dollars to 94 local politicians and executives of their supporters' groups.