The Latest Breaking News from Kyoto

A killer trip from Tokyo to Kyoto tops the DVD releases for the week of Oct. 18.

People admire the Senbon Torii gates at Fushimi Inari Taisha shrine in Kyoto. About 200 lights in bamboo holders were placed along the approximately 150-meter path, which starts behind the shrine's main building. These are the first full-scale nighttime illuminations at Fushimi Inari Taisha since 2011, when it commemorated the…

All aboard the “Bullet Train”! The express from Tokyo to Kyoto has everything, but mostly it has a lot of highly trained assassins with conflicting goals, including a befuddled Brad Pitt as a snatch-n-grab guy dubbed Ladybug, a pair of British bros named Lemon (Brian Tyree Henry) and Tangerine (Aaron…

Japan's Nintendo Co Ltd sold 23% fewer Switch consoles in the April-June quarter than a year earlier following chip shortages, it said on Wednesday. The Kyoto-based gaming company said it expected procurement to improve "from late summer towards autumn" and maintained its forecast to sell 21 million units in the…

A lay judge trial for Shinji Aoba, indicted for murder and four other charges over the 2019 arson attack at the Kyoto Animation Co. studio, remains uncertain, as no date has been set for a pre-trial hearing to narrow down the issues to be contested.

Evacuation guidelines created using lessons learned from the deadly 2019 arson attack on the Kyoto Animation Co. studio have been used in firefighting drills nationwide.

The new museum aims to reconcile a neighbourhood near Kyoto wracked by racism and inflamed by the legacy of war

Once weary of hordes of foreign tourists crowding its narrow streets and ignoring etiquette, many in Japan’s ancient capital of Kyoto are longing for their return — missing the revenue they brought before the country largely shut its doors to overseas visitors two years ago due to the pandemic.

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