If you own a Honda from the 1990s or early 2000s with reasonably low mileage, now could be the time to sell it, as evidenced by this 1991 Prelude SI that we’ve come across for sale.
The Bank of Japan says the Producer Price Index sank 0.1 percent in September, excluding the effects of last year's consumption tax hike. It's the first drop in four months as business activities remained sluggish. The decline was larger year-on-year at 2.3 percent.
Weakening demand for goods including steel and iron, machinery and textiles was behind the drop.
Japan's welfare ministry says the number of applications for welfare in July was down by 11.1 percent from July last year. It dropped by 2,463 to 19,650.
The month of June also saw a decline of 786, and applications in May dipped by 1,929 from the previous year.
The key gauge for business in Japan has dropped for the fifth consecutive month, due to a decrease in business travel amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The Bank of Japan says the Services Producer Price Index fell 0.6 percent in July from the year before. That excludes the effects of last year's consumption tax hike.
Data from mobile phones show that fewer people went out at night on Monday when the Tokyo Metropolitan Government started asking establishments that serve alcohol to close early to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
IT firm Agoop estimated the number of people at specific locations across Japan based on mobile phone data gathered with users' consent. Privacy was protected.
Toyota announced it's expecting an 80 percent profit drop this year, the company's lowest in nine years, after estimating the impact from the coronavirus pandemic in its business.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government says 36 more people were confirmed to be infected with the coronavirus on Saturday. That makes it the seventh straight day that the number of new cases in the capital was below 100.
Japan now has a total of over 15,700 confirmed infections. The list includes people tested at airport quarantine stations.
Japan's minister in charge of the coronavirus response says the number of new cases in the country is falling. But he warned that lifting the state of emergency may only be possible after the slowdown continues for a certain period of time.
The daily number of reported cases in Japan fell below 100 on Thursday for the first time since the state of emergency was declared last month.
Japan's government says it's still cautious about the country's coronavirus outbreak, despite a recent drop in new infections in the capital.
Tuesday marks three weeks since the government declared a state of emergency.
Outings in major cities across Japan declined on the first Sunday since the government expanded the state of emergency over the coronavirus pandemic to cover the entire nation. But the decrease differed from area to area.
Cell phone carrier NTT Docomo released data from its base stations without identifying the users.
Narita Airport near Tokyo has seen a drastic drop in the number of international flights due to the coronavirus pandemic. Airport officials say weekly flights are down nearly 85 percent year-on-year.
They say Narita had 3661 international arrivals and departures during the week ending January 25,which overlapped with the Lunar New Year holiday. The figure was the largest this year except for the new year holiday period.
GLAY have dropped the PV for their new song "Into the Wild."
This song can be found in the band's best-of album "REVIEW II -BEST OF GLAY-" released on March 11, and it's currently being used as the CM song for Subaru's Levorg. Directed by Hong Won Gi, the PV is comprised of scenes of women dancing to portray "liberation" and scenes of GLAY performing.
Japan's nuclear regulator says radiation levels around the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have decreased to about a quarter of 2011 levels.
The Nuclear Regulation Authority says radiation levels recorded last September fell by about 78 percent compared to levels recorded in October 2011. Data was compiled in almost identical circumstances on both occasions.