HOKKAIDO RANKED MOST ATTRACTIVE PREFECTURE FOR 18TH STRAIGHT YEAR: BEST ON SURVEY - TOKYO JAPAN

HOKKAIDO RANKED MOST ATTRACTIVE PREFECTURE FOR 18TH STRAIGHT YEAR: BEST ON SURVEY - TOKYO JAPAN 

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TOKYO

Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost main island and a popular tourist destination, has again been ranked the country's most attractive prefecture in an annual survey, retaining the top spot for the 18th straight year, a research institute said Saturday.

Hokkaido scored highly in categories such as "desire to visit as a tourist," reflecting its enduring popularity, while Kyoto in western Japan came second and Okinawa in southern Japan third, maintaining their positions from the previous year, according to the Brand Research Institute survey.

The least attractive among the country's 47 prefectures was Saga in southwestern Japan, which ranked 45th last year. The prefecture-based survey began in 2009.

The online survey, conducted between June and July this year, consisted of 91 questions covering areas such as visibility and drew responses from 31,666 men and women in their 20s through 70s.

Among the prefectures that improved their rankings, Nagasaki in southwestern Japan rose three places from the previous year to 8th, partly due to the impact of large-scale events such as music festivals, while Osaka in the west, which hosted the World Exposition in 2025, climbed two places to 6th.

Niigata, on the Sea of Japan coast, climbed six places from last year to 22nd, likely due to increased recognition of a gold and silver mine complex on Sado Island in Japan which was added to UNESCO's World Heritage list in 2024, according to the institute.

Eastern Japan's Saitama, which placed last the previous year, came 44th, while Ibaraki near Tokyo remained in 46th place, the same as last year.

"Prefectures that have attracted increasing enthusiasm from tourists have seen a sharp rise in their rankings," the institute said.

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'ACT BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE' : TOKYO RESIDENTS FIGHT FOR MORE TREES - TOKYO JAPAN

'ACT BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE' : TOKYO RESIDENTS FIGHT FOR MORE TREES - TOKYO JAPAN 

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TOKYO

One sweltering day in Tokyo, Kaoru Morimoto told friends she wasn't sure she could endure another summer in her neighborhood, where tree cover and the crucial shade it provides is dwindling.

As Japan experiences ever more frequent extreme heat, tree cover that can help lower temperatures is shrinking rather than growing in Tokyo, bucking a trend among many major world capitals.

Morimoto wants that to change. Last year she launched a campaign urging officials to set a canopy cover target, a rare grassroots initiative focused on the issue.

"Everyone says the summer has become more intense," but public awareness about Tokyo's lack of tree cover is low, Morimoto told AFP.

Together with Susumu Nirasawa, a fellow resident in her western Tokyo neighborhood of Nakano, the 66-year-old organizes expert talks, shares temperature data on social media, and attends local council meetings where she petitions officials. Around 30 others in the community have joined the cause.

"We want the ward government to take the issue seriously," Nirasawa, 71, said.

Japan saw its hottest summer on record in 2025, with warmer days on the rise globally due to climate change. This year, the country recorded almost 120 heat-related deaths between May and August, while more than 73,000 people needed emergency care.

Although experts say greater tree cover can help lower air temperatures, a University of Tokyo study in 2024 showed the city lost canopy cover equivalent to three and a half times the size of New York's Central Park in under a decade.

Thermometers and notebook in hand, Morimoto and Nirasawa take their own temperature readings in Nakano, hoping hard data will help unite their neighbors behind the cause.

We "measured the shade under trees with large canopies and under trees that had been more heavily pruned," said Morimoto. "There was about a three‑degree difference."

Extreme weather, narrow streets

In the 2024 study, University of Tokyo researcher and urban forestry expert Kinya Shiraishi found that canopy cover in central Tokyo fell to 7.3 percent in 2022 from 9.2 percent in 2013, a loss of 12 square kilometers.

By comparison, canopy cover in New York stands at around 23 percent, with the city aiming to raise it to 30 percent by 2040. London aims for a 10 percent increase from its current 20 percent by 2050, while Paris also plans to boost coverage from about 18 percent.

"If we want to improve the quality of urban life, canopy cover is one of the key factors," Shiraishi told AFP, adding that trees also lower flooding risks and can help city dwellers feel calmer.

He said the decline was driven largely by the loss of private residential gardens, with aging landowners selling their properties and mature trees often felled as large plots are subdivided to meet housing demand in the capital.

Many roads in Tokyo are also narrow and have little space for greenery, while authorities are wary of trees toppling over in extreme weather.

A Tokyo metropolitan government official told AFP that the city "is currently working to expand tree canopies through careful pruning, focusing on roads where the pavements are wide and the trees can grow".

Without proper management, trees threaten the visibility of traffic lights and are at risk of falling during typhoons, he said, adding that Tokyo uses a benchmark for measuring greenery which includes farmland and grassland found in its outer reaches.

But on a hot, sunny day in the city center, there was little shade along a street home to the finance ministry. One plain tree stood almost bare, its upper branches cut back close to the trunk.

"Unless we promptly make efforts to increase canopy cover and shift our policies, we'll run out of time," said Eijiro Fujii, professor emeritus at Chiba University who specializes in horticulture, glancing at a group of heavily pruned trees in Tokyo's central district of Kasumigaseki.

Fujii blames overpruning, developed to manage trees in limited spaces, as well as the frequent rotation of public officials overseeing street greenery, for the decrease in canopy cover.

In Nakano, Morimoto and Nirasawa say the ward's mayor has recently begun to emphasize the importance of tree shade, but neighborhood officials have so far failed to set a target for canopy cover.

"Deaths from heatstroke are rapidly increasing in Japan," Fujii said. "We need to act before it's too late."

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ANOTHER TYPHOON APPROACHING JAPAN FROM SOUTH OF OKINAWA - TOKYO JAPAN

ANOTHER TYPHOON APPROACHING JAPAN FROM SOUTH OF OKINAWA - TOKYO JAPAN

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TOKYO

Another typhoon was moving closer to Japan from south of Okinawa on Thursday, just days after Typhoon Dujuan wreaked havoc in areas near Tokyo.

Typhoon Surigae, the season's 26th, was located east of the Philippines and moving west, the Japan Meteorological Agency said, projecting it to move toward the southern Japanese island while strengthening.

Depending on its path, the typhoon could affect the weather on Honshu, the largest of Japan's four main islands. The agency is calling on the public to heed the latest weather information.

As of early Friday, the typhoon was moving north-northwest at a speed of 10 kilometers per hour, with atmospheric pressure of 1,000 hectopascals at its center, packing winds of up to 108 kph.

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NHK RESTARTS AT-HOME COLLECTION AGENT VISITS FOR TV FEES - TOKYO JAPAN

NHK RESTARTS AT-HOME COLLECTION AGENT VISITS FOR TV FEES - TOKYO JAPAN 

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TOKYO

Imagine you’re sitting at home, and all of a sudden there’s a knock at the door. You go to see who it is, and it turns out to be someone saying that you have to give them some money, right then and there, to fulfil your civic duty of funding the police or fire department.

That’d be pretty strange. Generally, things that are supposed to be public services are supposed to be funded through tax revenues, not by individual organizations showing up at your home with an outstretched palm. And it would be even weirder if the person asking you for money was not themselves part of the police or fire department, right? And yet, for many years, this was how Japan’s public broadcaster, NHK, did things. NHK would contract with third-party, private-company bill collectors, who would show up at people’s homes, including at night, and ask for money if they didn’t have a record of the occupant having paid their NHK fees recently.

This, as you might imagine, was not a visit that any members of the public enjoyed getting, especially given the aggressive tone and shady tactics some collection agents employed. After years of blowback, in 2023 NHK finally did away with the practice of at-home visits by third-party collection agents, but on Monday, they announced that they’re bringing them back.

NHK fees exist in an unusual legal space. According to Japan’s Broadcasting Act, anyone with a device that is able to receive NHK broadcasts is required to pay an annual fee of 12,276 yen, and for those with devices capable of receiving not just NHK’s terrestrial broadcasts but their satellite one as well, the fee rises to 21,765 yen a year (those who don’t want to cough up a whole year’s worth of fees all at once can opt for a two or six-month plan, but at higher per-month rates).

Note that actually watching the broadcast is not stipulated as being part of the condition for payment. Simply having a TV that receives NHK broadcasts, which TVs sold in Japan do by default, is enough, and NHK holds that since they produce online content as well, now any household where at least one person has a smartphone, tablet, or Internet-connected PC has to pay too.

▼ So score one for anyone who’s still holding out with an old-school cell phone.

Here, though, is where things get messy. That same Broadcast Act that says people have to pay NHK fees? It doesn’t include any sort of punishment for non-compliance. The fact that NHK apparently can’t just receive an equivalent cut from tax revenue, nor is able to send out payment notices that recipients legally have to comply with, casts further doubt on just how legit the system really is. The use of third-party collectors, and also some embezzlement/accounting scandals within NHK, haven’t helped the public broadcaster’s image either, nor inspired confidence that they’re appropriately using the money they do collect.

But NHK is unhappy with the amount of fees it’s been collecting recently, saying that the 585.1 billion yen it gathered in 2025 was down 5 billion yen from the year before. The organization is also concerned that this was the seventh year in a row for fee collection revenue to decline.

Japan’s total population has also been declining for seven years in a row (more than seven, actually), but I’m sure that demographic detail just slipped NHK’s mind.

So NHK will once again be having third-party agents to go to people’s homes and ask them to pay up if they haven’t already. The program has already resumed in parts of Osaka and Hyogo prefectures, and the current plan is to expand it to large cities like Tokyo and Nagoya first, followed by a potential further spread to smaller-sized communities.

If you’re wondering whether NHK has to pay the collection agents, the answer is yes, and agents get paid higher amounts the more fees they collect. As a matter of fact, NHK has had to reduce the amount they’ll be paying collection agents compared to previous rates, as costs associated with the old arrangement were deemed too high.

NHK is, at least, aware of the bad reputation these tactics have earned them in the past, and is trying to do things a little less abrasively this time around. Instead of sudden, unannounced visits, written notices will be mailed to households first, with in-person visits coming later. It’s not clear whether those who receive a notice will be asked to schedule a visit, or if it’s just a unilateral declaration of when the agent will be coming. The goal, though, is to “achieve understanding and receive payment of fees through polite explanation,” so hopefully no one else is going to get their house tagged for nonpayment.

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'HOLDING BACK IS EVIL': GEN-ZERS REVIVE JAPAN'S CORPORATE MACHISMO - TOKYO JAPAN

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OVER 10,000 HOMES REMAIN WITHOUT POWER IN CHIBA, KANAGAWA AFTER TYPHOON - CHIBA TOKYO JAPAN

OVER 10,000 HOMES REMAIN WITHOUT POWER IN CHIBA, KANAGAWA AFTER TYPHOON - CHIBA TOKYO JAPAN

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CHIBA

More than 10,000 homes in Chiba Prefecture remained without power on Friday after Typhoon Dujuan brought record rainfall to eastern Japan earlier this week.

TEPCO Power Grid Inc warned the outages could continue for an extended period, as roads have been blocked by landslides and fallen trees across wide areas, preventing crews in some locations from even inspecting damaged facilities.

Dozens of homes in nearby Kanagawa Prefecture were also without power on Friday, the utility said. In Chiba Prefecture, about 2,700 households had no running water as of noon Thursday, according to prefectural authorities.

The storm also breached some levees at Lake Imbanuma in northern Chiba Prefecture, flooding homes and rice paddies across an extensive area. With another typhoon approaching, the infrastructure ministry said Friday it aims to complete emergency repairs and draining of inundated areas within about a week.

The lake's water level stood at about 3 meters as of 7 a.m. Friday. The ministry plans to use drainage pumps to bring it back to its normal level of 2.3 meters by Saturday at the earliest.

Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Tatsunori Ibayashi told a press conference Friday that the ministry would work with the prefecture and the Japan Water Agency on the recovery effort, pledging to "do everything we can."

Shoji Sakuma, 63, who runs his own business in Ichihara, where the power outage is affecting more households than in any other city in Chiba, said his home had been without electricity since Monday evening. His solar panels provided some power, but not enough.

"It's hot and I can't use the air conditioner, so I plan to sleep in my car," he said. His home was also without running water, and it remains unclear when either service will be restored.

In Kimitsu, where water outages continued across a wide area, Ayumi Kono, 32, carried about 60 liters of water home from a distribution point.

Kono has used paper plates and disposable chopsticks to conserve water, but said, "The toilet is the biggest problem."

The typhoon has left 11 people dead -- seven in Chiba Prefecture and four in Kanagawa -- and three missing.

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OSAKA MAY NAME A DISTRICT AFTER EXPO MASCOT MYAKU - MYAKU - OSAKA JAPAN

OSAKA MAY NAME A DISTRICT AFTER EXPO MASCOT MYAKU - MYAKU - OSAKA JAPAN

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For quite a while now, the ruling political party in Osaka Prefecture, the Japan Innovation Party (Ishin no Kai), has been wanting to change Osaka into a metropolis like Tokyo. This would mainly involve breaking Osaka City into four “special wards,” which are kinds of pseudo-cities with more localized governments. 

The benefit would be a reduction in government redundancy, since Osaka Prefecture and Osaka City often oversee similar services and infrastructure in the same areas such as schools, hospitals, and libraries. The downside is it would be a huge pain in the neck to redraw the map and reallocate all of the services, which is probably why the idea was shot down in two referendums over the past decade.

▼ One of the proposed ways to divide Osaka City into four special wards

The Japan Innovation Party remains undeterred, however, and is working hard to keep the dream of an Osaka Metropolis alive. It recently formed a coalition with the nation’s ruling party, the Liberal Democratic Party, with a clear goal of making Osaka Japan’s “Vice Capital,” and what better way to do that than to become more like Tokyo.

Meanwhile, in an effort to bolster more public support for the metropolis idea, the Japan Innovation Party held an online survey where citizens of Osaka would vote for what they would like the new special wards to be named. Among the more lackluster choices named after geographic locations or directions, some citizen suggested “Myakumya Ward” as a possible name for the area along the north side of the current Osaka City.

The reason for this choice is that the Japanese word for “Ward” is “Ku,” so Myakumya Ward in Japanese would be “Myakumya-ku,” nearly identical to the popular mascot of the Osaka Expo, Myaku-Myaku.

Government officials involved in the survey weren’t sure what to do with the proposed name. On one hand, it seems to make a mockery of the whole idea. On the other hand, people love a good mockery, and since the whole purpose of this survey is to generate interest in the project, Myakumya Ward is very likely the best way to accomplish that.

The full shortlist of names is the following:

-- Osaka Yodogawa Ward, Osaka Kita Ward, Osaka Chuo Ward, Osaka Tennoji Ward

-- Shin-Osaka Ward, Umeda Ward, Namba Ward, Tennoji Ward

-- Yumeshima Ward, Shirokita Ward, Semba Ward, Uemachi Ward

-- Myakumya Ward, Kita Ward, Minami Ward, Harukas Ward

The second set seems like the most sensible. Most people I talk to refer to those general areas by those major train station names anyway. “Shin-Osaka” not so much, though, and looking at the options, I kind of think “Myakumya” is the best choice for that area, which contains the site of the former Expo. I would have said “Yodogawa,” but they put that meaningless “Osaka” in front of it for some reason, so “Myakumya” it is!

Reaction to the name online was mixed but significantly leaning towards the opinion that naming a municipal district after a gooey creature is a bad idea.

“It would be embarrassing to have to write ‘Myakumyaku’ on official documents.”

“Eh, I don’t live there, so I say go for it!”

“I think if they really own it wholeheartedly, it could become a good thing.”

“I think Governor Yoshimura said flat out on a livestream that it’ll never happen.”

“I like Myakumya-ku, it sounds like a land of magical monsters.”

“We can’t do that. We’d be the laughing stock of future generations.”

“They should call it Neo-Kobe.”

“The people who have to live there should have the biggest say in that.”

“Say goodbye to property values there.”

“I can’t wait to hand out business cards that say I’m from Myakumya-ku.”

“I’m expecting Fah Ward to come up soon too.”

“I live here, and I really hate this idea.”

Ultimately, we probably should respect the wishes of people who live in Myaku-Myaku Land, because they deserve to live with dignity too. Quite frankly though, Shin-Osaka (literally “New Osaka”) sounds like some kind of sci-fi Evangelion setting, and it would just be plain wrong since it’ll literally have become old Osaka at that point. Yumeshima is also the site of an upcoming integrated resort and casino, so do people really want their special ward to be named after that?

I think the people there just need to marinate on the idea a bit, and they’ll come to realize that Myakumya Ward really is the only sensible choice here.

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CUBA ELECTRIC WITHDRAWS APPLICATIONS FOR HAMAOKA NUCLEAR REACTORS RESTART - NAGOYA JAPAN

CUBA ELECTRIC WITHDRAWS APPLICATIONS FOR HAMAOKA NUCLEAR REACTORS RESTART - NAGOYA JAPAN

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Chubu Electric Power Co on Friday submitted necessary documents to withdraw its applications for regulatory screening to restart two of the reactors at the Hamaoka nuclear power plant in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan.

The decision comes after an investigative committee of outside lawyers concluded earlier in the month that the utility manipulated seismic data during screening for the restart of the Nos. 3 and 4 reactors at the power plant.

The company decided on Sept 14 to withdraw the applications. At a press conference that day, Chubu Electric President Kingo Hayashi said the findings had raised serious doubts about the reliability of the applications.

"It would be inappropriate to let the original applications stand," he said.

The utility applied for regulatory screening of the two reactors in 2014 and 2015.

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BEAR GETS ON FISHING BOAT, DOZES OFF BEFORE FALLING INTO SEA IN MIYAGI - SENDAI TOKYO JAPAN

BEAR GETS ON FISHING BOAT, DOZES OFF BEFORE FALLING INTO SEA IN MIYAGI - SENDAI TOKYO JAPAN 

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A bear climbed aboard a moored tuna fishing boat via its gangway and appeared to have dozed off before falling overboard and disappearing into the sea in the northern Japan city of Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture, local police said Sunday.

Three crew members who were on the boat took refuge in a locked room and were unharmed.

According to the police, a bear approximately one meter tall boarded the boat in the fishing port around 8:30 p.m.

It appeared to have fallen asleep on the bow and has not been seen since falling into the sea after 1 a.m., the police quoted the crew as saying. There had been reports of bear sightings in the area since Friday, the police said.

Elsewhere in Miyagi's Iwanuma, a train struck a bear late on Saturday, causing a temporary service suspension and delaying around 30 passengers on the Joban Line, JR East said. None of the crew or passengers were injured.

The bear became trapped under the train and it took nearly two hours for service to resume as workers removed the animal's dead body from under the cars, it said. Two trains in each direction were delayed, affecting about 490 passengers.

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GANG OF ANGRY MONKEYS SURROUNDS AND ATTACKS MAN IN HOT SPRING TOWN - TOKYO JAPAN

GANG OF ANGRY MONKEYS SURROUNDS AND ATTACKS MAN IN HOT SPRING TOWN - TOKYO JAPAN

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TOKYO

The town of Yugawara in Kanagawa Prefecture seems like it should be a very tranquil place. A seaside hot spring town, with baths and inns dotting the cityscape as it stretches up into the mountains as you head inland, it’s the sort of setting that entices you to get up early and go for a nice stroll, and that’s how last Thursday started off for one local resident in his 40s.

Unfortunately, at about 6:50 in the morning, as he was walking past the entrance to one of the town’s inns, the man was suddenly surrounded by a group of roughly a dozen antagonists. When you find yourself outnumbered to that degree, ordinarily the smart thing to do is to try to talk your way out of the situation. That wasn’t an option, though, because the man was surrounded by angry monkeys.

The animals advanced on the man, biting him several times on his hands before he could either get away or scare them off, and after reporting the incident he was taken to the hospital for treatment for his injuries.

▼ Monkeys on the streets of Yugawara

The trouble that had found the man this day came in the form of violent members of the group known as Troop T1, and if you’re thinking that a group of monkeys needs to acquire a certain degree of infamy, or at least notoriety, before a town gives them a name, you’re right. Monkeys in Yugawara have been growing increasingly bold. As you can see in the above video, they’re not limiting themselves to forested areas, with many of the animals now feeling comfortable roaming around more developed parts of the town. In 2025, there were over 900 reported incidents of monkeys behaving in an aggressive or intimidating manner towards human residents of Yugawara, including a farmer who said he was accosted by a group of monkeys in his field while harvesting melons and citrus fruits.

▼ Video from last winter, demonstrating how little apprehension some of the monkeys feel around people. In addition to raiding gardens, the animals have broken into homes by tearing through screen doors or prying open sliding glass ones.

As a hot spring town, tourism is a vital part of Yugawara’s economy, and as a rural town, many of its residents are elderly. Troop T1 preying on unsuspecting tourists or defenseless senior citizens. Since at least last year, the city administration has been seeking authorization from the Kanagawa prefectural government to capture all of Troop T1, but permission to do so has yet to be finalized.

It’s not clear what’s causing the increased aggression from the animals. Decades ago, it wasn’t uncommon for tourists to bring food into the Yugawara foothills to feed the monkeys with, which could erode the animals’ fear of humans and see them, and their living spaces, as sources of sustenance, but this has become far less prevalent than it used to be. All the same, the local authorities have reminded everyone to neither feed nor provoke the monkeys, and to contact the police should they spot groups of the animals in town.

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JAPAN ELDERLY POPULATION MAKES UP RECORD 29% - TOKYO JAPAN

JAPAN ELDERLY POPULATION MAKES UP RECORD 29% - TOKYO JAPAN

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Japan's population aged 65 or older accounted for a record 29.6 percent of the total, the government estimated Sunday, with the proportion remaining the highest among countries with populations exceeding 40 million.

The elderly population totaled a record 36.24 million -- 15.71 million men and 20.54 million women -- up 20,000 from a year earlier, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications said ahead of Japan's Respect for the Aged Day on Monday.

The ministry said in September last year that the elderly proportion stood at 29.4 percent, which was also the highest among other countries. The proportion hit an all-time high for the third time, following 2022 and 2024.

Among 39 countries with populations of 40 million or more, Japan was followed by Italy, where 25.6 percent of the population was aged 65 or older, Germany at 24.2 percent and France at 22.9 percent. Those aged 75 or older accounted for 17.7 percent of Japan's population, the highest proportion among nine major countries, followed by Italy at 13.3 percent.

Japan's elderly population is expected to rise to 39.45 million, or 36.3 percent of the total, in 2045 as the 1971-74 second baby boom generation ages into the category, according to the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research.

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