From my personal experience, reading data in japanese language is the only reliable source to understand what happened in Japan. Their news, press releases, announcements in English are usually too loose.

There's also The Japan Times [1]. Several non-English speaking countries do have at least a newspaper in English [2].

[1] https://www.japantimes.co.jp

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:English-language_ne...

What follows is a completely biased opinion, but I don't really have a high opinion of The Japan Times. IMHO they have an editorial slant that tends to cater to the foreign reader's biases rather than reporting news from a Japanese perspective. Like all newspapers, it's a mixed bag and there are often well written and insightful stories. However if I were looking for a place to stoke my confirmation bias for common misconceptions about Japan, The Japan Times would be the absolute first place I would look.

The NHK world news linked in the original article is probably the best place to get Japanese news from a Japanese perspective in English, but you also have to be a bit careful. While the NHK is very similar to the UK's BBC in many ways, news stories are frequently very soft on government policy. So it's sort of the opposite of the Japan Times ;-) The quality in general is much better IMHO, though.

If you don't mind relying on Google Translate (which is getting quite good these days) the TBS news website is very good: https://news.tbs.co.jp/ There is video for most stories and a transcript written under the video. This is actually what I used for studying to learn to understand the news. The quality of the stories vary, but they make a good counterpoint to the NHK. Keep in mind that all Japanese news offices tend to have a cozy relationship with the government, so you need to keep your mind open.

If you have an interest in Japan, keeping abreast of these Japanese news is useful as I have found numerous blatant errors in foreign reporting of Japan -- sometimes to the point where they translate something a Japanese official says exactly the opposite to what they are saying. I don't think this is true only of Japanese news either. World news is full of shenanigans and it really is an eye opening experience to follow the news from the perspective of a different country/culture.