Japan News in English

Japan's news in English, and your city's: from Sapporo to Naha. NOT A GOVERNMENT APP: Japan News is independent. It does not represent the Government of Japan, the Japan Meteorological Agency, the Bank of Japan or any ministry, prefecture or municipality, and is not affiliated with them. Every source is listed under SOURCES. NEWS By topic (politics, business, markets and the yen, living in Japan, travel, trains, disasters, anime, food, baseball, sumo and more) and by city, with subscriber stories marked. A notification at most once a day for what you follow, never at night. Tap a term under a headline (Shindo, BOJ) to see what it means. TODAY For your city: earthquakes felt in your prefecture with the Shindo, and the scale explained; tsunami warnings for your coast; weather warnings and advisories; typhoons and how near they come; volcanic alert levels; the weather; the yen against the dollar and more; the Bank of Japan's rate and next meeting; the next long weekend. Alerts for each, switchable. CALENDAR AND LEARN National holidays and substitute holidays, Golden Week and Silver Week, Obon and the New Year break, tax return dates and the BOJ's meetings, with reminders. A Japanese phrase a day, and "Japan explained": over 80 terms. SOURCES Government information, and its official source: Japan Meteorological Agency (jma.go.jp): weather warnings https://www.jma.go.jp/bosai/warning/#lang=en, earthquakes https://www.jma.go.jp/bosai/map.html#contents=earthquake_map&lang=en, the Shindo scale https://www.jma.go.jp/jma/en/Activities/inttable.html, tsunami https://www.data.jma.go.jp/multi/tsunami/index.html?lang=en, typhoons https://www.data.jma.go.jp/multi/cyclone/index.html?lang=en, volcanoes https://www.data.jma.go.jp/multi/volcano/index.html?lang=en Bank of Japan: https://www.boj.or.jp/en/mopo/mpmsche_minu/index.htm Holidays: Cabinet Office, https://www8.cao.go.jp/chosei/shukujitsu/gaiyou.html Tax returns: National Tax Agency, https://www.nta.go.jp/english/ Prime Minister's Office of Japan: https://japan.kantei.go.jp/ Disaster preparedness: Cabinet Office, https://www.bousai.go.jp/kokusai/web/index_en.html Safety tips for visitors: JNTO, https://www.jnto.go.jp/safety-tips/eng/app.html Exchange rates: European Central Bank, ecb.europa.eu Everything else, and its source: News: Kyodo News, The Japan Times, The Mainichi, Japan Today, Nippon.com, The Asahi Shimbun, The Japan News, NHK World, Nikkei Asia, SoraNews24, Tokyo Weekender, Savvy Tokyo, GaijinPot, Anime News Network, Prime Minister's Office of Japan, JAXA, The Diplomat, JAPAN Forward, Unseen Japan Through Google News: Reuters, AP News, AFP, BBC, Bloomberg, CNN, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, Financial Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, South China Morning Post, Yonhap, The Korea Herald, CNA, The Straits Times, DW, ABC News, CNBC, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, NPR, MLB.com, ESPN, Los Angeles Times, Olympics.com, RugbyPass, Crunchyroll News Weather: Open-Meteo (open-meteo.com), MET Norway. Photos: Wikimedia Commons, credited in the app. WHAT IT CAN'T DO Stories are the publishers' own; some ask you to subscribe. The alerts are best effort and come minutes after JMA issues them: they are no replacement for the Earthquake Early Warning and J-Alert on your phone, NHK, or your municipality's evacuation orders. In an emergency call 119 or 110. Free, with a single banner ad. A one-time purchase removes it.

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