Japanese octogenarian skateboarder learns new tricks
Yoshio Kinoshita is living proof that you can teach an old dog new tricks. The 81-year-old rides the ramps at his local skate park in...
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Tokyo trains crowded but little other damage day after strong quake
Tokyo area commuters faced packed trains on Friday on some lines due to delays, but there was little other impact after a strong quake rocked...
Magnitude 6.1 quake jolts Tokyo, causing blackouts but no tsunami warning
A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.1 jolted Tokyo and surrounding areas late on Thursday, stopping train lines and causing sporadic power cuts,...
Auckland stays in lockdown, officials report Pfizer-linked death, Moderna woes in Japan widen
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Monday extended a lockdown in Auckland by two weeks, while officials reported the country’s first death linked to...
Closer ties between Cyprus and Japan aided return of art treasure
Closer ties between Cyprus and Japan, reflected in the opening by the two countries of embassies in each other’s capitals, played a catalytic part in...
Three dead, 80 missing in Japan after heavy rains trigger landslides
More than a thousand Japanese rescuers combed through crumbled houses and buried roads on Monday two days after landslides tore through a seaside city, fighting time...
China urges Japan to treat “comfort women” issue in honest, responsible manner
China urged Japan to treat the “comfort women” issue left over from history in an honest and responsible manner at the ongoing 47th session of...
Strong quake hits off Japan coast, triggering blackouts
A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.1 hit off the coast of eastern Japan on Saturday, shaking buildings and triggering widespread blackouts, but...
Japan to consider new Covid-19 emergency declaration
Japan will consider issuing a new emergency declaration after governors in the capital region urged action to tackle a record surge in COVID-19 cases, the...
Japan’s Suga formally voted in as PM, readies ‘continuity cabinet’
Japan’s Yoshihide Suga was voted prime minister by parliament’s lower house on Wednesday, becoming the country’s first new leader in nearly eight years, as he readied a...
UK and Japan strike Britain’s first post-Brexit trade deal
Britain struck its first post-Brexit trade deal with Japan on Friday, hailing the agreement as a “historic moment”, just as it is struggling to clinch...
Japanese PM Abe resigns over worsening health
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest-serving premier, announced his resignation because of poor health on Friday, ending a stint at the helm of the world’s...
Japan floods, mudslides kill at least 44 as streets turn to rivers
Torrential rain hit Japan’s southwestern island of Kyushu on Monday, with at least one more river bursting its banks, as the death toll from three...
Osaka becomes world’s highest-earning female athlete
Japan’s Naomi Osaka has surpassed Serena Williams as the world’s highest-paid female athlete, raking in $37.4 million in prize money and endorsements over the last year, according to...
Japan lifts emergency in most areas but not in Tokyo, Osaka
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe lifted a state of emergency in large parts of the country on Thursday but said it would remain in place...
Japan, IOC consider postponement as Canada, Australia withdraws from 2020 Games
Canada and Australia said they would not be sending athletes to the Tokyo Olympics if the Games went ahead as scheduled this year as pressure...
Japanese journalist wins damages in high-profile lawsuit over alleged rape
A Japanese court on Wednesday ordered a prominent reporter to pay damages to a female journalist in a civil lawsuit over her allegations he raped...
Pope Francis visits Japan, bearing anti-nuclear message
Pope Francis arrived on Saturday in Japan, the second leg of a week-long Asian trip whose main aim is to bring an anti-nuclear message to...
Passengers, restaurants struggle with water cutoff at Tokyo’s Haneda airport
Tokyo’s Haneda airport was grappling with a water supply cutoff at one of its terminals on Thursday, with passengers washing their hands with bottled water...
One killed in Japan as typhoon approaches, over a million advised to evacuate
One man died and more than a million in Japan were advised to evacuate as a powerful typhoon was set to make landfall late on...