#Japan

The 20th Asian Games opened in Nagoya on Saturday with a glittering ceremony of dance and fireworks following a buildup marred by operational gaffes and logistical problems. Five years after ...

Accommodation issues continued to plague the lead-up to the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games on Thursday with even the host Japan team looking at alternative arrangements after cases in which male and ...

Asian Games organisers are bracing for possible weather disruption in the opening few days of the multi-sports gathering with the possibility of a typhoon hitting the Aichi-Nagoya coast on Monday. ...

Alex Lanier beat Kodai Naraoka 21-11 21-11 to become the first French player to win a singles title in badminton’s World Championships on Sunday. In the women’s singles ...

North Korea fired a suspected ballistic missile towards the sea on Thursday, Japan’s government and coastguard said. South Korean media also cited South Korea’s military as saying North ...

Rescuers were frantically searching on Wednesday for survivors of a 7.1-magnitude earthquake that shook southern Japan, killing at least 13 people, knocking out power to thousands of homes and rupturing roads ...

A major earthquake rocked Japan’s southern Kumamoto prefecture on Tuesday, knocking out power to thousands of homes, rupturing roads and injuring at least 50 people. Speaking to reporters at her ...

The mayor of a small Japanese city became the first sitting mayor in the country to take maternity leave on Monday, a decision that has drawn some criticism at home ...

Japanese fans celebrated their team’s4-0 victory over Tunisiain the 1,000th match in World Cup history on Saturday by staying behind at Monterrey’s stadium to collect rubbish from ...

The Japanese city of Utsunomiya captured a wild black bear on Tuesday after a dramatic multi-day search that gripped the nation, as local schools closed and residents were urged to ...

A magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck off the northeastern coast of Japan on Monday, prompting authorities to urge residents to stay away from coastal areas where tsunami waves of up to 3 metres (10 ...

Japan deservedly beat a lacklustre and Harry Kane-less England 1-0 at Wembley on Tuesday in the hosts’ last friendly before manager Thomas Tuchel announces his World Cup squad in May. ...

Italian teenager Kimi Antonelli looked every bit the seasoned veteran as he eased to a second successive pole position in Saturday’s qualifying for the Japanese Grand Prix. The 19-year-old ...

Japanese authorities lifted tsunami warnings on Tuesday hours after a powerful 7.5-magnitude earthquake shook northeastern regions, injuring at least 30 people and forcing about 90,000 residents to evacuate their homes. The earthquake ...

Japan deployed troops to the country’s rugged north on Wednesday to help trap bears after local authorities said besieged communities were struggling to cope with an unprecedented wave of ...

U.S. President Donald Trump lavished praise on Japan’s first female leader Sanae Takaichi in Tokyo on Tuesday, welcoming the new prime minister’s pledge to accelerate a military ...

President Donald Trump lavished praise on Japan’s first female leader Sanae Takaichi in Tokyo on Tuesday, welcoming her pledge to accelerate a military buildup and signing deals on trade ...

U.S. President Donald Trump received a royal welcome on Monday in Japan, the latest leg of a five-day Asia trip which he hopes to cap with an agreement on ...

Hardline conservative Sanae Takaichi was elected Japan’s first female prime minister on Tuesday, shattering the nation’s glass ceiling and setting it up for a forceful turn to the ...

The South Korean government expressed “deep disappointment and regret” over Japanese officials visiting a Tokyo war shrine on Friday and said future relations must be built on Japan showing remorse ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba denied talk on Wednesday that he would quit after a source and media reports said he plans to step down following a bruising upper house ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said on Wednesday he was determined to protect his country’s national interests as trade negotiations with the U.S. struggled and President Donald Trump ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said on Thursday he was disappointed that his country did not win an exemption from President Donald Trump’s new tariffs and promised measures to ...

Japan became the first team to qualify for the 2026 World Cup on Thursday as Daichi Kamada and Takefusa Kubo struck in the second half to earn Hajime Moriyasu’s side ...