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...
A massive fire engulfed Shuri Castle in southern Japan on Thursday, destroying much of the World Heritage Site which dates back to the 14th century as...
A fleet of whaling ships left port on Monday at the start of Japan’s first commercial whaling season in more than three decades, officials say. The...
A Japanese man who served as vice minister and ambassador was arrested on Saturday for the murder of his son, who was stabbed to death at...
A knife-wielding man attacked girls as young as six at a bus stop in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area, killing two people and injuring seventeen others before...