The cabinet releases findings that suggest if Japan accepts 200,000 immigrants per year it could solve population problems; netizens call strategy 'idiotic'.

Government urges caution as "killer ticks" spreading STFS virus have been found in 23 Japanese prefectures, infecting 53 people and leaving 21 dead; netizens panic.

A 'fake teacher' at an Osaka middle school was recently discovered to have been teaching for 15 years without a license; netizens sympathetic toward the man.

Tokyo Olympic boss and former Japanese PM Mori Yoshiro is criticised for slating Asada Mao's performance in figure skating at Sochi; netizens angry at his remarks.

A video of Japan's "Rabbit Island" showing a girl surrounded by a colony of rabbits goes viral on YouTube; netizens describe the rabbits as "flood of cuteness".

A van driver for Yamazaki Bread Co. is hailed as a hero by netizens for distributing the contents of his van to motorists stranded due to heavy Yamanashi snow.

A man who was dumped by the woman he intended to marry demands she repays the cost of dates and allegedly sends threats to her home; netizens side with the woman.

Netizens shed a tear at the heartwarming story of a Miyagi bus driver who learned to dive so he could find his wife who went missing during the 2011 tsunami.