A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 has struck off Japan’s Okinawa Island, with light shaking felt across the island, seismologists say. There is...
Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has been evacuated from an event where he was scheduled to speak after a loud bang was heard, according to local...
The United States, South Korea and Japan have carried out joint naval exercises off the coast of South Korea, defense officials say. It comes amidst rising...
North Korea has test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) into the Sea of Japan, adding to a series of increasingly aggressive tests amid rising tensions on...
A ballistic missile launched from North Korea triggered a brief emergency alert in Japan, according to Japanese and South Korean officials. The alert urged citizens to...
A Japanese diplomat accused of receiving classified information was blindfolded, restrained and interrogated during his detention in eastern Russia, Japan’s foreign minister says, calling it a...
Japanese woman Kane Tanaka, who was born when Emperor Meiji ruled the Japanese Empire and more than a decade before the outbreak of World War I,...
Researchers in the Philippines have discovered a new coronavirus variant which belongs to the same lineage as the Brazilian variant, officials say, but there’s currently not...
A strong 6.9-magnitude earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands off northeastern Japan, seismologists and residents say. Shaking was felt in parts of Hokkaido island but officials...
A section of a wooden boat from North Korea washed ashore on the Japanese island of Sado on early Saturday morning, according to local officials. The...