According to the official Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics Twitter account, it's business as usual ahead of this year's games.
Temperatures have been stuck above 31 Celsius in and around Tokyo since July 24
A city in Japan has been bombarded with inquiries from aspiring ninjas, after a news report was mistaken for a "ninjas wanted" advertisement.
One man was killed and at least 11 people injured, when rocks from an erupting volcano rained down on skiers at a mountain resort in Japan.
Typhoon Lan killed four people and set off off landslides and flooding that prompted evacuation orders for tens of thousands of people.
The medals for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics will be forged from recycled metal from old mobile phones and appliances donated by the general public.
A disgraced Japanese researcher has failed to replicate results hailed as a potential breakthrough in stemcell treatment.
Though talk of vampires exist as early as ancient times, it took hundreds of years for them to evolve into the undead of more recent history.