A major internet company in Japan has awarded Olympic figure skater Hanyu Yuzuru its grand prize for topping the number of hits on its search engine this year.
Yahoo Japan awards people or works that see the biggest yearly rises in searches. It released the results in multiple categories on Monday.
The animated movie "Kimetsu no Yaiba," or "Demon Slayer," has earned 20 billion yen in its first 24 days in theaters across Japan. It reached the milestone much faster than the 59 days it took the 2001 animated fantasy film "Spirited Away."
The film's distributor, Toho, says more than 15.3 million people watched the movie in theaters from October 16 to Sunday. It raked in 20.4 billion yen, or nearly 200 million dollars.
The Tokyo Metropolitan government says it confirmed 250 new cases of the coronavirus in the capital on Thursday.
Officials say this is a preliminary figure as of 3 p.m.
The number of coronavirus deaths in Japan has now exceeded 1,000. The figure includes 13 deaths from the Diamond Princess cruise ship, that docked just outside Tokyo earlier this year.
Health authorities confirmed the latest deaths in the greater Tokyo area -- bringing the total to 1,001.
Japan's agricultural ministry has warned of devastating damage to the farming, forestry and fisheries industries due to ongoing torrential downpours.
The ministry says as of 11 p.m. on Friday, damage has been confirmed in 30 prefectures. They include Kumamoto and Kagoshima in the southwestern Kyushu region, which has been hit particularly hard by the extreme weather.
Japan's health and welfare ministry says the average age of survivors of the 1945 atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki has topped 83.
The ministry every year surveys the holders of certificates for "hibakusha," or victims of atomic bombings.
Japan's health ministry says more than 11 percent of those in their 80s or older with coronavirus infection have died.
The ministry said the number of people with confirmed infections in Japan stood at over 10,600 as of 6 p.m. Sunday.
Japan's cumulative total of confirmed infections with the coronavirus surpassed 10,000 on Saturday.
The figure now stands at 10,098, excluding cases from the Diamond Princess cruise ship that was quarantined near Tokyo earlier this year.
J.D. Power is out with its annual U.S. Vehicle Dependability Study for 2020, which looks at problems experienced by owners of three-year-old vehicles. The big takeaways are continued improvement in overall vehicle dependability, with the brands Genesis, Lexus and Buick taking the top three spots, in order. But once again, the usual caveats apply.
Autoblog years ago raised issues with the study, which gives the same weight to matters of subjective likability, such as complaints about pairing their device with the vehicle's Bluetooth or ease of operating the audio system, to more substantive issues like a defective climate system or transmission trouble. J.D. Power continues to tally problems across eight categories, including audio/communication/entertainment/navigation, and despite that being the most improved category, the organization says it still accounts for more problems than any other.