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Japan Today Spotlight — 49 episodes

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New divorce and child custody rules in Japan

2

Why Japan has almost no gun crime

3

Can foreigners own land in Japan?

4

Japan’s bicycle crackdown

5

Japan’s new idol culture trend

6

Japan’s hidden homelessness

7

Japan under pressure as Takaichi meets Trump

8

What’s wrong with Japan’s police?

9

Can you carry a knife in Japan?

10

Iran conflict: Japan exposed?

11

Japan’s military is short on recruits

12

The Senkakus: Little islands, big tensions

13

How Japan chooses its prime minister

14

The death penalty in Japan

15

Japan and nuclear weapons: A line it hasn’t crossed — yet

16

Inside Japan's troubled classrooms

17

New rules for foreigners in Japan

18

Can Japan power its AI future?

19

Japan Today Spotlight: The stories that defined Japan in 2025

20

Japan’s rising cost of living

21

‘Akiya’: Japan’s hottest property boom

22

How scammers target you in Japan

23

Japan–China standoff over Taiwan

24

Running on empty

25

Japan’s vanishing countryside

26

Japan’s NHK fee

27

Sanae Takaichi meets Donald Trump: Flattery or strategy?

28

Japan’s ‘foreigner problem’: Kimi Onoda and the politics of coexistence

29

Trial of Shinzo Abe’s assassin: The fallout Japan still faces

30

Japan’s marijuana paradox: Legal CBD, harsh laws, big arrests

31

Drunk pilots at JAL: Scandals Japan can’t ignore

32

Why stalking cases in Japan keep ending in tragedy

33

Why nuisance YouTubers are causing outrage in Japan

34

Why Japan’s ‘lost generation’ is still losing

35

Why bear attacks are surging in Japan

36

Why so many people go missing in Japan

37

Japan’s hostage justice: Guilty until proven innocent

38

Scrolling for truth: News for the swipe generation

39

80 years after the Pacific War: Japan’s reckoning with history

40

Why these Japanese homes are so cheap (and so creepy)

41

Japan’s far-right surge: Sanseito and ‘Japan First’ politics in 2025

42

Is Trump blowing up Japan-U.S. relations?

43

Japan’s newspaper crisis: Losing readers, relevance and the next generation

44

Japan’s big heat: June’s deadly start to summer

45

Why Japan’s 2,000-year imperial family may not survive this century

46

Why Japan’s J-pop idol industry bans sex, dating and romance

47

Japan’s rice crisis: Why prices are soaring and what’s behind it

48

Why is Nissan failing — and what speed bumps lie ahead?

49

Japan’s sex industry boom: How tourism and the yen are changing everything