Defence fund draws record 560 applications, including first grants to 11 universities
The Defense Ministry's security technology research program received more than 500 proposals for fiscal 2026, with universities accounting for 291 of them.
The Defense Ministry's security technology research program received more than 500 proposals for fiscal 2026, with universities accounting for 291 of them.
The magnitude 5.7 tremor woke Tokai before dawn and brought down glass and bookshelves. Experts say it is no reason to relax about the Nankai Trough.
The quake, centered in western Shizuoka at a depth of about 40 km, was felt in Shiga, southern Kyoto and Osaka, and as far as Tokyo and Saitama.
A Nagoya University professor says the quake was not on the Nankai Trough boundary, but that a bigger one could still come — and that today is the day to check your home.
Eight years after his arrest, a high school teacher describes a habit he says has not gone away. Japan's response has been punishment after the fact; Taiwan's has been cameras in every public elementary and junior high classroom.
Mahiro Muroga's former boyfriend says she told him in July that Takuya Miura had broken her nose and strangled her — and that police would not take a complaint at the time.
The quake struck at about 1:04 a.m. on the 8th with its epicenter in western Shizuoka. No tsunami is expected.
Kakegawa and Kobe have already shifted club activities out of public middle schools. A Nagoya University sociologist says children are splitting into three groups — and cost is starting to decide who keeps playing.
The JFA's six-stage return-to-play program sets a minimum of seven days, but doctors are being asked to judge carefully after the 26-year-old took blows to the head in consecutive league matches.