The Clubrooms, an organization that runs bilingual afterschool programs, held Zoom sessions this Christmas season where children could talk to Santa Claus in North Pole in English. During the session,…

On Sunday, December 11th, the Clubrooms, an organization that runs bilingual afterschool programs, held an event in Minato-ku, which allowed kids to have an experience in working at different jobs.…

A capybara is taking a comfortable bath in the rotemburo at Nagasaki Bio-Park, a wildlife park in Saikai City, Nagasaki Prefecture. The thing floating in the bath is a pomelo,…

Hundreds of vehicles are still trapped in snow on roads in Nagaoka City, Niigata Prefecture, on the Sea of Japan.　The land ministry said traffic jams continued on Route 8 and…

日本（にほん）では毎年（まいとし）、今年（ことし）を表（あらわ）す「今年の漢字（かんじ）」が国民（こくみん）の投票（とうひょう）に基（もと）づいて選（えら）ばれています。「今年（ことし）の漢字」に選ばれたのは「戦（いくさ）」です。今年はロシアのウクライナ侵攻（しんこう）などによって戦争（せんそう）について考（かんが）えさせられたからです。また、物（もの）の値段（ねだん）が上（あ）がることや新型（しんがた）コロナウイルスなど日常生活（にちじょうせいかつ）で戦（たたか）うことが多（おお）かったことも理由（りゆう）の一（ひと）つです。サッカーのワールドカップの日本代表（にほんだいひょう）の素晴（すば）らしい戦いを理由に挙（あ）げる人（ひと）たちもいました。 Every year in Japan, the “Kanji of the Year” is selected to represent the year, based on the votes of the Japanese people. The word chosen for this year’s…

A Danish bank employee union announced on December 3rd, that there were no recorded bank robberies in the country throughout 2022. This is down from 221 robberies in 2000 and…

　Communications and other problems with the Japanese space agency’s Omotenashi probe have dashed hopes for the nation’s first lunar landing. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said Nov. 22 it has…

カタール（かたーる）で、サッカーのワールドカップの予選（よせん）が　おこなわれています。　日本代表（にほん　だいひょう）チームは、初戦（しょせん）で　強豪（きょうごう）ドイツのチームに勝利（しょうり）を　おさめましたが、二回戦（にかいせん）では　コスタリカに　１対０（いったい　ゼロ）で　まけました。次（つぎ）は　スペインとの試合（しあい）が　日本時間（にほんじかん）の2日（ふつか）　金曜日（きんようび）の早朝（そうちょう）に予定（よてい）されています。 FIFA World Cup soccer preliminary round is being held in Qatar. The Japanese national team won their first match against a strong German team, but lost to Costa Rica…

Selected medical institutions in Japan have begun prescribing an oral COVID-19 pill, Xocova, the first domestically-developed drug. Xocova is made by pharmaceutical company Shionogi for the use of treating even…

Researchers at the University of Tokyo have found that rats bob their heads to music in the same way that humans do. They believe other animals also share the innate…