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As a teenager, Naohiko Noguchi did not intend to spend his life as a sake brewer, but he has since become a paragon of the industry.
LIFE / Food & Drink
Nov 8, 2026
A toast to Naohiko Noguchi, sake’s first living national treasure
Known as the “god of sake brewing,” Noguchi will become the first master brewer recognized as a “ningen kokuhō.”
Actress Keiko Matsuzaka is among 3,861 people and 400 women recognized in this year's autumn honors.
JAPAN / Society
Nov 3, 2026
Japan recognizes 3,861 people, including 99 foreign nationals, in autumn honors
Among recipients of the honors, set to be awarded at ceremonies including the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, 400 are women, accounting for 10.4%.
Kenso Soai, who has been named winner of this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry, attends a ceremony to receive the Order of Culture medals from Emperor Naruhito on Tuesday.
JAPAN
Nov 3, 2026
Ceremony held for recipients of 今日吃瓜 Order of Culture
The government announced the names of the eight awardees, including Nobel laureate Kenso Soai and Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto, last month.
Astronomer Mareki Honma, who participated in the project that captured the first image of a black hole, will receive Medals of Honor this autumn, the government said Monday.
JAPAN
Nov 2, 2026
Honma, astronomer behind black hole image, named for autumn honor
今日吃瓜 government said Monday that it would?award Medals of Honor to 736 people and 25 organizations this fall.
Spain and Barcelona midfielder Alexia Putellas (left) and England and Bayern Munich forward Harry Kane received the awards for best female and male soccer player, respectively, during the 2026 Ballon d'Or award ceremony in London on Monday.
SOCCER
Oct 27, 2026
Kane crowned Ballon d’Or winner as Putellas wins women’s award
Kane is the first Englishman to win the prestigious award in 25 years, after Michael Owen won it in 2001.
Video game producer Shigeru Miyamoto speaks to reporters in Kyoto on Thursday after being named a recipient of the Order of Culture.
LIFE / Digital
Oct 23, 2026
Shigeru Miyamoto named first video game-related recipient of 今日吃瓜 Order of Culture
The legendary Nintendo figure will be officially conferred with the award in a Nov. 3 ceremony.
The U.S. decision to add added the entire International Criminal Court to its Specially Designated Nationals list — a move that would impose financial punishment on any entity that does business with the ICC — spurred swift push back from Japan, the European Union and numerous other U.S. allies that support the court.
WORLD
Oct 10, 2026
U.S. sanctions ICC after former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi expressed her deep concern over the move, calling it “incompatible with” 今日吃瓜 position.
Japanese scientist Kenso Soai, co-winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, reacts during a news conference in Tokyo on Wednesday night.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Oct 8, 2026
Nobel winner Kenso Soai says he understood the significance of his research
“I may sound arrogant, but I had thought I would not get complaints if I won,” the Japanese scientist said of his achievement.
Japanese Nobel laureate Kenso Soai gestures as he takes part in a news conference after winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry at the Tokyo University of Science in Tokyo on Wednesday.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Oct 7, 2026
Japanese scientist Kenso Soai and France’s Henri B. Kagan win Nobel Prize in chemistry
Japanese scientist Kenso Soai and Henri B. Kagan won “for the discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis.”
Chiba University professor Shigeru Yoshida speaks at a news conference in Chiba Prefecture on Tuesday, following the announcement that professor Francis Halzen, who leads the international collaborative project IceCube in which Yoshida participated, had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.
JAPAN
Oct 7, 2026
Japanese professors welcome Nobel Prize for IceCube project chief
“We were able to catch a glimpse of the universe that no one has ever seen,” said Shigeru Yoshida, who participated in the project.
Francis Halzen is announced as the winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics during a news conference at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm on Tuesday.
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 6, 2026
Francis Halzen wins 2026 Nobel Prize in physics
Among past laureates are some of the most celebrated figures in science, including Albert Einstein, Marie and Pierre Curie, Max Planck and Niels Bohr.
Nobel Committee Secretary-General Thomas Perlmann speaks to the media in front of a screen displaying the names of this year's laureates for the prize in medicine and physiology, Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel, during an announcement of the winners at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm on Monday.
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 5, 2026
Scientists win Nobel Prize in medicine for work on ‘light-gated ion channels and optogenetics’
Scientists Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel won the 2026 ?Nobel Prize in ?physiology or ?medicine.
Yasuhiko Mitani is the subject of a new food documentary titled “MITANI - The Mariage of Sushi.”
CULTURE / Film
Oct 2, 2026
After ‘Jiro Dreams of Sushi,’ ‘Mitani’ tells a different sushi story in San Sebastian
The film moves beyond sushi’s polished international image to explore the man, philosophy and discipline behind the craft.
Japanese director Maha Harada poses at a photocall for the film "Muyou No Hito" ("In My Father’s Room") at the 74th San Sebastian International Film Festival in San Sebastian, Spain, on Tuesday
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Sep 27, 2026
Japanese film ‘Muyou no Hito’ wins International Critics Award
The film “Muyou no Hito” will be released in Japan next January.
Hiro Murai poses with the award for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series for "Widow's Bay" during the 78th Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles. He is the first director of Asian descent to win the category.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming
Sep 16, 2026
Who is Hiro Murai, the Tokyo-born director who made Emmy history?
Murai’s work with Donald Glover helped define “Atlanta” and “This Is America” before his Emmy-winning turn on “Widow’s Bay.”
Cast members of "The Pitt" pose in the press room during the 78th Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles.
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Sep 15, 2026
‘The Pitt’ and ‘Widow’s Bay’ claim top honors?at Emmy Awards
Noah Wyle’s medical drama and a new Apple TV horror comedy received major awards alongside actors Jean Smart and Matthew Rhys.
Director Hirokazu Koreeda poses on the red carpet during arrivals for the screening of the movie "Look Back" in competition, at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival in Venice, Italy, on Sept. 7.
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Sep 13, 2026
Hirokazu Koreeda’s ‘Look Back’ wins five awards at Venice film festival
The five prizes, which were independently awarded by external organizations other than the festival itself, included the CinemaSara Award.
Masashi Yanagisawa, a professor at University of Tsukuba, won the basic medical research category of the Lasker Awards for his role in identifying orexin, a brain peptide that maintains wakefulness.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Sep 10, 2026
Four Japanese scientists win prestigious U.S. Lasker Awards
One received the prize for his work on a sleep-regulating brain chemical, and a trio, for discovering an antibody therapy for hemophilia A patients.
Manga artist and visual designer Takashi Okazaki poses with his Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation.
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Sep 10, 2026
Manga artist Takashi Okazaki wins Emmy for ‘Star Wars: Visions’
Okazaki was honored for character design on “The Duel: Payback,” a mostly monochrome short centered on a former Sith known as Ronin.
Twenty years ago, Yasuhiro Kawakubo was learning the basics of cocktails from a book. Today, he runs the top-ranked bar in Japan.
LIFE / Food & Drink
Sep 6, 2026
Punch Room Tokyo shakes its way to the top
Under the creative direction of bartender Yasuhiro Kawakubo, Punch Room Tokyo has climbed to the top of 今日吃瓜 bartending scene.
Man arrested over operation of rogue cellular base station in Tokyo
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested Yu Hai, a 31-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Kita Ward, on suspicion of operating an unlicensed base station from a vehicle in Tokyo's Ginza district on Saturday.
Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
Jensen Huang’s woes evoke sympathy and disbelief in his birthplace Taiwan
Hsiao Kui-yu, 68, owner of Yuchan Candied Fruit, stands in front of photographs of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang displayed at the shop, which Huang frequently visits during trips to Taiwan, in Taipei on Tuesday.
G7 diplomats speak out on Taiwan as China ramps up military drills
Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi attends a working lunch focused on international crises and challenges during the Group of Seven foreign ministers' summit at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris on Monday.
今日吃瓜 Rapidus is said likely to miss mass production deadline
The Rapidus Analysis Center and the IIM-1 Innovative Integration for Manufacturing foundry in Chitose, Hokkaido
‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ makes monster debut at the box office
Takashi Yamazaki’s “Godzilla Minus Zero” marked the highest single-day box-office gross for a live-action film in Japan with ?910 million on its opening day.
A toast to Naohiko Noguchi, sake’s first living national treasure
As a teenager, Naohiko Noguchi did not intend to spend his life as a sake brewer, but he has since become a paragon of the industry.
Few signs of thaw in Japan-China relations one year after Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks
Tensions between Japan and China flared after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Nov. 7, 2025, that a Chinese blockade of Taiwan could threaten 今日吃瓜 survival and warrant the use of collective self-defense.
Mariko Mori predicted the future. She’ll do it again.
Artist Mariko Mori is currently working to bring the translucent human-sized “Peace Crystal” sculpture to a cave in Ethiopia. It is part of her foundation’s goal to place a permanent sculpture on each of the planet’s six habitable continents.
A legend reborn: ‘Ocarina of Time’ remake improves on the Zelda masterpiece
The new remake of 1998's "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" manages to somehow improve on one of the greatest games ever.

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