Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio is ordering a significant increase in defense spending in five years. It comes as the ruling coalition has been raising concerns about security around Japan.

Kishida met with the defense and finance ministers on Monday. He told them he wants defense spending to rise to 2 percent of Japan's GDP in fiscal 2027.

A labor dispute arbitration body of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government has ordered the operator of the food delivery service Uber Eats to negotiate with its deliverers' labor union.

The union formed by some Uber Eats deliverers demanded improvements in working conditions after the operator unilaterally lowered compensation for delivery staff.

Japanese judicial officials say that records related to disbandment orders for two religious groups have been destroyed by the district courts that were storing them.

One of the groups was the Aum Shinrikyo cult that carried out the deadly gas attack on the Tokyo subway system in the 1990s.

Right now, people or groups who are buying up PS5 consoles and reselling them at a marked up price are a huge problem. From what we’ve noticed, a lot of these scalpers are trying to sell the consoles at almost double the retail price that online retailers are selling the console at, and are netting a pretty decent profit out of it.

That being said, a report from Kotaku has revealed that over in South Korea, one retailer by the name Gamewoori is trying to fight against these scalpers by taking a no-mercy approach and outright cancelling orders if they are found to be bought for the intention of resale. According to the retailer’s Instagram, they claim that if they find any evidence that one of their customers is trying to resell their pre-order at marked up prices, they will cancel their orders, even if payment has already been made (presumably they will refund these orders).

Japan's defense minister has ordered the Self-Defense Forces to send nurses to the prefecture of Hokkaido to help ease the shortage of healthcare workers due to the coronavirus.

This led to opportunities from third-party companies looking to create accessories for the console, like a company calling themselves CustomizeMyPlates. Unfortunately, it seems that the company has since been forced to cancel all orders that were placed through them for custom PS5 faceplates following a legal letter from Sony that threatened a lawsuit should they proceed.

Speaking to VGC in an email, the company said, “Before we launched, we did our due diligence and were of the opinion, that because Sony only had pending patents on the faceplates there would be no problem. But after only a day of our website being live, Sony’s lawyers asked us to change our name (at the time PlateStation5), due to trademark infringements. We thought this switch would be enough to keep everyone happy, and honestly were hoping so since we were already underway with our product development.”

Japan's machinery orders rose in August from the previous month, increasing for a second straight month.

The Cabinet Office says major machinery makers received about 7.1 billion dollars' worth of orders from domestic companies, up 0.2 percent in yen terms from July.

One of the reasons why you would pre-order the Xbox Series X or the PS5 is because you want to ensure that you will be able to get your hands on the console on the day that it is released. However, if you pre-ordered either console from Amazon, it seems that there is a chance that you might not receive it on time.

This is according to emails that Amazon has sent out to customers of both the Xbox Series X and PS5, in which the company is warning that ahead of time that they might not receive their consoles in time for launch day. According to Amazon’s email, they are citing high demand as the reason for this.

More than 1.1 million people in four prefectures in southwestern Japan have been ordered to evacuate immediately even though Typhoon Haishen has moved past the region.

As of 12:30 p.m. Monday, evacuation orders were issued to Saga Prefecture, Nagasaki Prefecture, Kumamoto Prefecture and Kagoshima Prefecture.

More than 1.6 million people in six prefectures in southwestern Japan have been ordered to evacuate immediately as Typhoon Haishen threatens to hit the region.

As of 8:30 a.m. Monday, evacuation orders were issued to Fukuoka Prefecture, Saga Prefecture, Nagasaki Prefecture, Kumamoto Prefecture, Oita Prefecture, and Kagoshima Prefecture.

Major department stores in Japan are already set to start taking orders for New Year's delicacies known as osechi.

This year, amid the coronavirus pandemic, they are planning to offer food items in individual servings, rather than arranged for sharing. This will reduce the risk of infection.

A South Korean coast guard ship has ordered a Japanese coast guard vessel to end a survey it is conducting in Japan's exclusive economic zone off the southwestern prefecture of Nagasaki.

The Japan Coast Guard, or JCG, says the South Korean ship radioed the demand shortly after 4 a.m. on Saturday when the Japanese vessel was engaged in a survey about 140 kilometers west of Meshima, an islet in Nagasaki's Goto Islands. The JCG says the waters are within Japan's EEZ.

The Sony PS5 is expected to be released later this year. Given the popularity of the PlayStation series in general, we expect that there will most likely be a rush of gamers eager to place their orders. In order to ensure that gamers will be able to purchase the console, it seems that Sony could be employing a preventive measure that will limit one console purchase per household.

This is according to a post on Reddit in which it details the backend code for PlayStation Direct where it suggests that only one household may order one PS5 at a time. Presumably this is done to prevent people from purchasing multiple units at once in order to resell them at higher prices due to potential limited supply at the start.

Evacuation orders are in place for parts of Fukuoka, Kumamoto, Nagasaki and Oita prefectures in Japan's southwestern Kyushu region due to heavy rainfall.

Officials are calling on residents to be on the alert for risks of floods and landslides.