Magnitude 7.6 earthquake strikes Japan, tsunami warning issued for Ishikawa(www3.nhk.or.jp)

247 points by rntn 2 years ago | 58 comments

Japan's Hayabusa2 probe to conduct flyby of Torifune asteroid(www3.nhk.or.jp)

152 points by dvh 3 months ago | 17 comments

Tokyo court orders former Unification Church to disban(www3.nhk.or.jp)

7 points by nipponese 1 year ago | 1 comments

Japan law opening phone app stores to go into effect(www3.nhk.or.jp)

121 points by shlip 10 months ago | 23 comments

Earthquake in Japan yesterday may have shifted land 1.3 meters(www3.nhk.or.jp)

95 points by ronyclau 2 years ago | 71 comments

Japan Government warned citizens to shelter after ballistic missile launch(www3.nhk.or.jp)

59 points by alacritas0 3 years ago | 55 comments

7.1 Earthquake in Japan(data.jma.go.jp)

758 points by krembo 3 months ago | 198 comments

Japan Meteorological Agency detail page for a magnitude 7.1 earthquake in Japan, with a map showing seismic intensity observations across western Japan.

M8.7 earthquake in Western Pacific, tsunami warning issued(earthquake.usgs.gov)

839 points by jandrewrogers 1 year ago | 227 comments

USGS event page for the M8.8 earthquake 119 km ESE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia on 2025-07-29, with maps and impact information.

Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners(aljazeera.com)

120 points by mikhael 1 month ago | 323 comments

Al Jazeera article on Japan raising requirements for permanent residency and tightening rules for foreigners amid a rightward political shift.

Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available(koreajoongangdaily.joins.com)

1958 points by ksec 1 year ago | 872 comments

Korea JoongAng Daily news article reporting that a fire at South Korea's NIRS data center destroyed the government's cloud storage system, with no backups available.

Japanese people still aren't having sex. And nobody knows why(sciencefocus.com)

22 points by baranul 10 days ago | 32 comments

BBC Science Focus news article reporting that around 1 in 10 Japanese people reach their 30s without having had sex, and that the causes remain unclear.

Japan's push to make all research open access(nature.com)

612 points by sohkamyung 2 years ago | 92 comments

Nature news article on Japan allocating 10 billion yen to institutional repositories to make the nation's publicly funded research free to read.