Sanae Takaichi( Mainichi/ Daiki Takikawa) TOKYO( Kyodo)--Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe intends

Small white" baikamo" flowers bloom in a clear stream in the Shiga Prefecture city of Maibara.... Its flowers--about 1 centimeter in diameter--resemble plum flowers.... According to the Maibara Municipal Government, baikamo began to flower earlier than usual this year, at the beginning of May, and they are typically at their most spectacular until around August....

A street leading to Kiyomizu Temple is crowded with tourists on Oct.... 1, they plan to jointly conduct promotional drives, develop new travel service products and attract airlines to airports operated by Mitsubishi Estate, the Tokyo-based real estate company said Tuesday.... Trip. com Group's services, meanwhile, will be promoted on displays for digital signage services at Mitsubishi Estate-related facilities....

The idea of holding the so-called two-plus-two talks was discussed when Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida spoke by phone with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, during which they also agreed to step up efforts to realize a free and open Indo-Pacific, according to the Foreign Ministry.... During the phone talks, which lasted about 25 minutes, Kishida expressed his" strong opposition to any unilateral attempts to change the status quo by force in the East and South China seas," according t

Hanshin Engei Co. workers tend to the saturated ground at Hanshin Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, on Aug.... Games for the 103rd edition of the National High School Baseball Championship, which is currently ongoing at the stadium, were postponed for three consecutive days from Aug.... 12 to 14 due to torrential rain....

Piping for the" frozen soil wall" is seen at the TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, in February 2021.... Question: I heard Tokyo Electric Power Company( TEPCO) Holdings Inc. will discharge treated water from the Fukushima Daiichi plant into the ocean, is it true?... Its current plan to store the water accounts for 1, 016 storage tanks, but about 970 are already holding water, and all of them are expected to be full by around spring 2023....

OSAKA--Following a spate of serious traffic accidents across Japan involving elderly drivers, the government is stepping up countermeasures, promoting the spread of vehicles equipped with automatic braking, among other initiatives.... While the number of elderly people voluntarily returning their licenses is increasing, cars remain indispensable for daily life in some areas.... Experts accordingly underscore the need to create environments where people can get around without a car....

OSAKA--A bit past 5 p.m., children who had just ended school filed into the first-floor room of a municipal housing complex one after the other.... Someone called out," Today's menu is minced meat patties.... There's soba noodles too," and the room was filled with smiles and laughter....