NEWS ARCHIVE
Selected by the editor from events, announcements and reports. This is not a traffic ranking.
IllustrationThe lower-house budget committee opened on October 13 with Agriculture Minister Kazuo Yana's road-budget remarks in focus. LDP lawmaker Norihisa Tamura also questioned fairness in allocations.
IllustrationKeisei, Keikyu, Sendai Airport Transit, Tokyo Monorail, Tobu, JR East and Hokuso announced October 13 that they would replace magnetic tickets with QR-coded tickets from spring 2027.
IllustrationJMA's October 13 early weather outlook indicated a possibility of markedly above-normal temperatures from around October 19, from Pacific-side Hokkaido through Kinki and in Okinawa, including Tohoku, Kanto-Koshin, Hokuriku and Tokai.
IllustrationNICT's threat-analysis team disclosed on October 13 a method it calls A2B attacks: analysing public Android apps to investigate and target their backend servers.
IllustrationSoftBank subsidiary SB Intuitions launched a free beta of its Sarashina service on October 13, offering web conversation and translation with Google-account sign-in.
IllustrationRide On Express Holdings said registration data for Gin no Sara, Kamatora and Sushi Joto might have leaked after an external-server attack. Up to roughly 6.5 million records, including names, addresses and orders, were potentially affected.
IllustrationGen Hoshino and Yui Aragaki announced their first child's birth in a joint message through official websites and other channels on October 13, thanking supporters and fans.
IllustrationFukushima TV reported October 13 that alpine skier Takeshi Suzuki received Inawashiro's resident honour award after his Paralympic men's slalom bronze in March.
IllustrationFukushima's projected 2026 table-rice harvest was 337,400 tonnes, down 33,800 from the previous year, Fukushima TV reported October 13, citing the Tohoku agricultural bureau.
IllustrationRyukyu Asahi reported October 13 on a restoration exhibition at Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts in Naha, running until October 18, with repaired trays and clothing from the Shuri Castle fire.