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news18.com - Jan 17
The world is full of cultures and traditions that fascinate us. While some of them make sense to us, others don’t and as much as they seem bizarre, people following them continue to do so with complete faith.

Japan Today - Jan 17
Police in Tokyo have arrested a 31-year-old unemployed woman on suspicion of theft after she allegedly took a 34-year-old female acquaintance’s apartment key from her handbag during dinner and gave it to an accomplice to rob her apartment.

The Japan Reporter - Jan 16
Net cafe refugees (also known as 'cyber-homeless') are the people in Japan who don't own or rent residence and stay in internet cafes or manga cafes.

Nikkei - Jan 16
Yukihiro Takahashi, the drummer of legendary Japanese electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra, died Wednesday of aspiration pneumonia, his office said Sunday. He was 70.

NHK - Jan 16
A traditional New Year's archery event in Kyoto drew women who turn 20 this year as performers.

Kyodo - Jan 16
A female inmate awaiting execution in Japan after being convicted of murdering two men in the western prefecture of Tottori in 2009 died Saturday of asphyxiation after choking on food, the Justice Ministry said Sunday.

NHK - Jan 13
Officials in western Japan's Osaka City say a whale that strayed into a bay there has died.

Japan Today - Jan 13
Around 15 people were taken to hospital following a major pileup on Thursday involving around 20 vehicles near an exit of an expressway in western Japan, local authorities said.

Access Hollywood - Jan 13
Gwen Stefani is defending her Harajuku era and saying she's Japanese. Nearly 20 years ago, the "Hollaback Girl" singer was widely accused of appropriating Japan's Harajuku subculture in her 2004 debut studio album, "Love. Angel. Music. Baby" and "Harajuku Lovers," her 2008 fragrance.

Japan Today - Jan 07
Aichi prefectural police have arrested a 63-year-old woman and her 37-year-old son on suspicion of violating the prefecture’s public nuisance ordinance by secretly filming women in a bathing facility’s dressing room and bath.

Japan Today - Jan 06
The suspect in the deaths of three family members last month at a residence in Hanno, Saitama Prefecture, has denied killing them, police said Wednesday.

NHK - Jan 05
Players dressed in ancient costumes have played the traditional Japanese card game karuta at a shrine in Kyoto for the first time in three years.

CNA - Jan 05
Japanese employees returned to work on Wednesday (Jan 4) after celebrating the first three days of 2023 by travelling and having family gatherings, as eased restrictions allowed a gradual return to normalcy following two years of muted celebrations.

Japan Today - Jan 02
Emperor Naruhito and his family waved to throngs of New Year’s well-wishers from the balcony at the Imperial Palace on Monday in the return of a celebration halted for the past two years by the pandemic.

Japan Today - Jan 02
Emperor Naruhito wished for a year where people will be able to lead their lives with hope after one marked by the novel coronavirus pandemic and the Russian war in Ukraine, in his New Year address released Sunday.

people.com - Dec 30
Princess Kako had a busy year of engagements, taking over many of the duties of the former Princess Mako.