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Osaka governor, mayor announce twin elections

Hirofumi Yoshimura (R), Osaka governor and leader of the Japan Innovation Party, and Osaka mayor Hideyuki Yokoyama meet the press in Osaka on Jan. 15, 2026. The Osaka governor and Osaka mayor said they will resign and run for reelection to their respective posts as part of the JIP's third attempt to transform the western Japan city into a metropolis like Tokyo.

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[Breaking News]Wolf escapes at western Tokyo zoo

TOKYO, Japan, Dec. 29 Kyodo - Video taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows an aerial view of the Tama Zoological Park in Hino, western Tokyo, shortly after noon on Dec. 28, 2025, where a wolf escaped from its enclosure. The European wolf was recaptured at around 2:20 p.m. after being spotted on a public pathway inside the zoo. (Kyodo)

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Wolf escapes at western Tokyo zoo

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows an aerial view of the Tama Zoological Park in Hino, western Tokyo, shortly after noon on Dec. 28, 2025, where a wolf escaped from its enclosure. The European wolf was recaptured at around 2:20 p.m. after being spotted on a public pathway inside the zoo.

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Wolf escapes at western Tokyo zoo

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows an aerial view of the Tama Zoological Park in Hino, western Tokyo, shortly after noon on Dec. 28, 2025, where a wolf escaped from its enclosure. The European wolf was recaptured at around 2:20 p.m. after being spotted on a public pathway inside the zoo.

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Wolf escapes at western Tokyo zoo

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows an aerial view of the Tama Zoological Park in Hino, western Tokyo, shortly after noon on Dec. 28, 2025, where a wolf escaped from its enclosure. The European wolf was recaptured at around 2:20 p.m. after being spotted on a public pathway inside the zoo.

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Wolf escapes at western Tokyo zoo

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows an aerial view of the Tama Zoological Park in Hino, western Tokyo, shortly after noon on Dec. 28, 2025, where a wolf escaped from its enclosure. The European wolf was recaptured at around 2:20 p.m. after being spotted on a public pathway inside the zoo.

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Wolf escapes at western Tokyo zoo

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows staff at the Tama Zoological Park in Hino, western Tokyo, setting up a net to recapture a wolf shortly after noon on Dec. 28, 2025, following its escape from an enclosure. The European wolf was caught at around 2:20 p.m.

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Wolf escapes at western Tokyo zoo

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows staff at the Tama Zoological Park in Hino, western Tokyo, setting up a net to recapture a wolf shortly after noon on Dec. 28, 2025, following its escape from an enclosure. The European wolf was caught at around 2:20 p.m.

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Wolf escapes at western Tokyo zoo

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows staff at the Tama Zoological Park in Hino, western Tokyo, setting up a net to recapture a wolf shortly after noon on Dec. 28, 2025, following its escape from an enclosure. The European wolf was caught at around 2:20 p.m.

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Northern boobook

Photo taken on Nov. 16, 2025, shows a northern boobook at Hamura municipal zoo in Hamura, western Tokyo.

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Northern boobook

Photo taken on Nov. 16, 2025, shows a northern boobook at Hamura municipal zoo in Hamura, western Tokyo.

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Harris's hawk

Photo taken on Nov. 16, 2025, shows a Harris's hawk at Hamura Zoo in Hamura, western Tokyo.

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Harris's hawk

Photo taken on Nov. 16, 2025, shows a Harris's hawk at Hamura Zoo in Hamura, western Tokyo.

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Harris's hawk

Photo taken on Nov. 16, 2025, shows a Harris's hawk at Hamura Zoo in Hamura, western Tokyo.

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Japanese Princess Aiko visits imperial graveyard

Japanese Princess Aiko visits the mausoleum of Empress Kojun, her great-grandmother and wife of Emperor Showa, at the Musashi imperial graveyard in Hachioji, western Tokyo, on Dec. 3, 2025, following her first official overseas trip to Laos the previous month. (Pool photo)

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Japanese Princess Aiko visits imperial graveyard

Japanese Princess Aiko visits the mausoleum of Emperor Showa, her great-grandfather, at the Musashi imperial graveyard in Hachioji, western Tokyo, on Dec. 3, 2025, following her first official overseas trip to Laos the previous month. (Pool photo)

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Japanese Princess Aiko visits imperial graveyard

Japanese Princess Aiko visits the mausoleum of Emperor Showa, her great-grandfather, at the Musashi imperial graveyard in Hachioji, western Tokyo, on Dec. 3, 2025, following her first official overseas trip to Laos the previous month. (Pool photo)

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CORRECTED: Japanese Princess Aiko visits imperial graveyard

Japanese Princess Aiko visits the mausoleum of Empress Kojun, her great-grandmother and wife of Emperor Showa, at the Musashi imperial graveyard in Hachioji, western Tokyo, on Dec. 3, 2025, following her first official overseas trip to Laos the previous month. (Pool photo)

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Japanese Princess Aiko visits imperial graveyard

Japanese Princess Aiko is pictured following her visit to the mausoleum of Emperor Showa, her great-grandfather, at the Musashi imperial graveyard in Hachioji, western Tokyo, on Dec. 3, 2025, following her first official overseas trip to Laos the previous month. (Pool photo)

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Japanese Princess Aiko visits imperial graveyard

Japanese Princess Aiko visits the mausoleum of Emperor Showa, her great-grandfather, at the Musashi imperial graveyard in Hachioji, western Tokyo, on Dec. 3, 2025, following her first official overseas trip to Laos the previous month. (Pool photo)

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Japanese Princess Aiko visits imperial graveyard

Japanese Princess Aiko visits the mausoleum of Emperor Showa, her great-grandfather, at the Musashi imperial graveyard in Hachioji, western Tokyo, on Dec. 3, 2025, following her first official overseas trip to Laos the previous month. (Pool photo)

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Japanese Princess Aiko visits imperial graveyard

Japanese Princess Aiko visits the mausoleum of Emperor Showa, her great-grandfather, at the Musashi imperial graveyard in Hachioji, western Tokyo, on Dec. 3, 2025, following her first official overseas trip to Laos the previous month. (Pool photo)

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Japanese Princess Aiko visits imperial graveyard

Japanese Princess Aiko visits the mausoleum of Emperor Showa, her great-grandfather, at the Musashi imperial graveyard in Hachioji, western Tokyo, on Dec. 3, 2025, following her first official overseas trip to Laos the previous month. (Pool photo)

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Japanese Princess Aiko visits imperial graveyard

Japanese Princess Aiko visits the mausoleum of Empress Kojun, her great-grandmother and wife of Emperor Showa, at the Musashi imperial graveyard in Hachioji, western Tokyo, on Dec. 3, 2025, following her first official overseas trip to Laos the previous month. (Pool photo)

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Japan PM Takaichi eats persimmon

Japanese Prime Minster Sanae Takaichi eats a piece of persimmon at the premier's office in Tokyo on Nov. 19, 2025, during a visit by representatives promoting the fruit grown in the western Japan prefecture of Nara.

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Japan PM Takaichi receives persimmons

Japanese Prime Minster Sanae Takaichi (C, R) receives a basket of persimmons at the premier's office in Tokyo on Nov. 19, 2025, during a visit by representatives promoting the fruit grown in Nara Prefecture, western Japan.

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Japan PM Takaichi receives persimmons

Japanese Prime Minster Sanae Takaichi (R) receives a basket of persimmons at the premier's office in Tokyo on Nov. 19, 2025, during a visit by representatives promoting the fruit grown in Nara Prefecture, western Japan.

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Japan PM Takaichi receives persimmons

Japanese Prime Minster Sanae Takaichi receives persimmons at the premier's office in Tokyo on Nov. 19, 2025, during a visit by representatives promoting the fruit grown in Nara Prefecture, western Japan.

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Japan's Princess Aiko

Japanese Princess Aiko is pictured after visiting the mausoleums of Emperor Showa and his wife Empress Kojun, the princess' great-grandparents, at the Musashi imperial mausoleum complex in Hachioji, western Tokyo, on Nov. 10, 2025, ahead of her first official overseas trip to Laos later in the month. (Pool photo)

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Japan's Princess Aiko

Japanese Princess Aiko visits the mausoleum of Empress Kojun, her great-grandmother and wife of Emperor Showa, at the Musashi imperial mausoleum complex in Hachioji, western Tokyo, on Nov. 10, 2025, ahead of her first official overseas trip to Laos later in the month. (Pool photo)

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Japan's Princess Aiko

Japanese Princess Aiko visits the mausoleum of Emperor Showa, her great-grandfather, at the Musashi imperial mausoleum complex in Hachioji, western Tokyo, on Nov. 10, 2025, ahead of her first official overseas trip to Laos later in the month. (Pool photo)

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Japan's Princess Aiko

Japanese Princess Aiko visits the mausoleum of Emperor Showa, her great-grandfather, at the Musashi imperial mausoleum complex in Hachioji, western Tokyo, on Nov. 10, 2025, ahead of her first official overseas trip to Laos later in the month. (Pool photo)

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Japan's Princess Aiko

Japanese Princess Aiko visits the mausoleum of Emperor Showa, her great-grandfather, at the Musashi imperial mausoleum complex in Hachioji, western Tokyo, on Nov. 10, 2025, ahead of her first official overseas trip to Laos later in the month. (Pool photo)

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Japan's Princess Aiko

Japanese Princess Aiko visits the mausoleum of Emperor Showa, her great-grandfather, at the Musashi imperial mausoleum complex in Hachioji, western Tokyo, on Nov. 10, 2025, ahead of her first official overseas trip to Laos later in the month. (Pool photo)

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Nobel Prize in medicine winner Sakaguchi

TOKYO, Japan, Oct. 7 Kyodo - Shimon Sakaguchi, a distinguished professor at Osaka University, attends a press conference in Suita, Osaka Prefecture in western Japan, on Oct. 6, 2025, after the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute announced that he won this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with U.S. scientists Mary E. Brunkow and Fred Ramsdell, for their "groundbreaking" discoveries on how the immune system is kept in check. (Kyodo)

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Nobel Prize in chemistry winner Kitagawa

Kyoto University distinguished professor Susumu Kitagawa (L), in the western Japan city, talks over the phone with Asahi Kasei Corp. honorary fellow and 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate Akira Yoshino, in Tokyo, on Oct. 8, 2025, after Kitagawa was named one of the three winners of the prize earlier in the day for developing porous materials that can store and release gases such as natural gas.

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Nobel Prize in chemistry winner Kitagawa

Kyoto University distinguished professor Susumu Kitagawa (L), in the western Japan city, talks over the phone with Asahi Kasei Corp. honorary fellow and 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate Akira Yoshino, in Tokyo, on Oct. 8, 2025, after Kitagawa was named one of the three winners of the prize earlier in the day for developing porous materials that can store and release gases such as natural gas.

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Nobel Prize in medicine winner Sakaguchi

Combined photo shows Shimon Sakaguchi (L), a distinguished professor at Osaka University, in Osaka in western Japan, and Yoshinori Ohsumi, who won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 2016, in Oiso, Kanagawa Prefecture, near Tokyo, speaking on the phone after Sakaguchi was named the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with two American scientists the previous night for their "groundbreaking" discoveries on how the immune system is kept in check, on Oct. 6, 2025.

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Japan Prince Hisahito

Japanese Prince Hisahito visits the mausoleum of Empress Kojun, his great-grandmother and wife of Emperor Showa, at the Musashi imperial mausoleum complex in Hachioji, western Tokyo, on Sept. 9, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Japan Prince Hisahito

Japanese Prince Hisahito visits the mausoleum of Emperor Showa, his great-grandfather, at the Musashi imperial mausoleum complex in Hachioji, western Tokyo, on Sept. 9, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Japan Prince Hisahito

Japanese Prince Hisahito (L) visits the mausoleum of Emperor Showa, his great-grandfather, at the Musashi imperial mausoleum complex in Hachioji, western Tokyo, on Sept. 9, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Japan: Typhoon Peipah Brings Heavy Rain and Flooding from West to East 6

Typhoon Peipah made landfall early Friday, September 5, bringing heavy rain and flooding across a wide area from western to eastern Japan. The typhoon first came ashore near Sukumo City in Kochi Prefecture before dawn, then made a second landfall in northern Wakayama Prefecture around 9:00 a.m. Peipah caused travel disruptions and the Japan Meteorological Agency issued heavy rain and flood warnings for several areas including Tokyo.

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Japan: Typhoon Peipah Brings Heavy Rain and Flooding from West to East 5

Typhoon Peipah made landfall early Friday, September 5, bringing heavy rain and flooding across a wide area from western to eastern Japan. The typhoon first came ashore near Sukumo City in Kochi Prefecture before dawn, then made a second landfall in northern Wakayama Prefecture around 9:00 a.m. Peipah caused travel disruptions and the Japan Meteorological Agency issued heavy rain and flood warnings for several areas including Tokyo.

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Japan: Tokyo Hit by Evening Downpours and Flooding After Extreme Heat

On the evening of August 18, heavy rain hit parts of Tokyo, flooding some roads. Severe rain and flood warnings were issued for eastern Tokyo’s Arakawa Ward and western Tama. Earlier the same day, the Kanto region experienced extreme heat, with temperatures soaring above body temperature in several areas, including 39°C recorded in Fuchu City. The intense heat caused highly unstable atmospheric conditions, leading to the rapid development of thunderstorms across the region by the evening.

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