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Japan PM Abe: too early to discuss specific revisions to constitution
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Monday it would not be easy to revise Japan’s constitution, a day after a resounding election victory opened the...
Japanese banks raise guard after $16 million taken from ATMs
Japanese banks that lost some 1.8 billion yen ($16.5 million) when fake overseas cards were used at convenience store ATMs are scrambling to combat such...
Search resumes for 7yo boy left in remote woods ‘as punishment’
A seven-year-old boy is missing in a forest after his parents made him get out of the car as punishment, police in Japan have said.
Japan’s ‘vagina kayak artist’ defiant as prosecutors seek fine
A Japanese artist charged with obscenity for distributing a design for a kayak shaped like her vagina scoffed on Monday at a demand by prosecutors to punish...
Last throw of the dice: Japan boosts world markets with negative interest rate
Japan’s central bank has given surprised world markets a shot in the arm by introducing a negative deposit rate for commercial banks.
Last throw of the dice: Japan stuns world markets with negative interest rate
Japan’s central bank has surprised world markets by introducing a negative deposit rate for commercial banks.
Blow for women as Japan’s highest court upholds same surname law for couples
Women’s rights campaigners were dealt a blow yesterday when Japan’s highest court upheld a law insisting that married couples must have the...
We’ve done our best, so agree to disagree, says Japan’s whaling minister
Japan has done nothing wrong by sending its whaling fleet out on its annual Antarctic hunt and the world must agree to disagree on the issue, the country’s...
‘North Korean ghost boats’ wash up in Japan after deadly hunt for fish
Fishing boats carrying decomposed corpses have washed ashore in Japan in recent weeks, leading to speculation they are rickety North Korean vessels that...
Japanese illustrator considered father of manga-anime art, dies aged 93
An award-winning Japanese manga artist, whose retellings of traditional ghost stories and depictions of the horrors of World War II helped propel anime...
Japan defies claims it’s killing for meat to resume whaling in the Antarctic
Japan will resume research whaling in the Antarctic by the end of March next year, despite a lack of evidence that it has a scientific purpose. The...
Japan write Rugby World Cup history with sensational win against Springboks
Japan recorded the biggest upset in Rugby World Cup history as substitute Kame Hesketh scored on the last play of the game to seal a 34-32 victory over...
Scuffles in parliament as Japan defies protests to unleash might of its army
Politicians scuffled in parliament on Thursday during a heated debate over a security bill that could see Japan’s military fight abroad for the first...
20 people missing and thousands evacuated after floods devastate Japan
Thousands of rescue workers have continued to search for more than 20 missing people in a flooded city near Tokyo, a day after a raging river washed away...
Evacuations underway: Raging floodwaters swamp Japanese town
Tens of thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes as heavy rain fell on parts of Japan for a second day. The Kinugawa River burst...
Heavy downpour on Japan leads to evacuations, many stranded
Tens of thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes as heavy rain fell on parts of Japan for a second day. The Kinugawa River burst...
Tens of thousands told to leave their homes as heavy rain buckets down on Japan
Tens of thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes as heavy rain fell on parts of Japan for a second day.
Japan’s Prime Minister asks Joe Biden for investigation into possible U.S. spying
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has asked U.S. Vice President Joe Biden for an investigation into possible spying on high-level Japanese government...
Two killed, 350,000 urged to flee as Typhoon Nangka lashes Japan
Two people were killed making preparations for a strong tropical storm that swept across western Japan on Friday and left more than 30 injured.
China warns Japan not to backtrack on WW2 apology
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe needs to clearly express remorse for his nation’s World War Two actions or risk “rubbing salt in the wounds”...
Japan to start from scratch on Tokyo Olympic stadium plan
Japan scrapped the design of the Olympic stadium for the 2020 Tokyo Games because of soaring costs Friday and said it will reopen bidding for a new plan,...
Two killed, 350,000 urged to flee as Typhoon Nangka lashes Japan
Two people were killed making preparations for a strong tropical storm that swept across western Japan on Friday and left more than 30 injured.
Japan poised to send troops abroad for first time since WWII
Controversial security bills that opponents say will undermine 70 years of pacifism and could see Japanese troops fighting abroad for the first time since...
Bullet train horror at 300kmh as ‘suicide fire’ kills two passengers
Two people are dead and many others injured after a reported suicide attempt on a bullet train in Japan on Tuesday.
Man sets himself alight on Japan bullet train, second passenger dies
Two passengers on a Japanese Shinkansen bullet train died after one doused himself in oil and set himself ablaze on Tuesday, media reports said.
Constitutional questions grow over Japan PM’s military plans
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s pledge to the U.S. to increase Japan’s military contribution internationally is facing more questions...
1.25 million cases of personal data leaked in Japan pension system hack
Japan’s pension system has been hacked with more than a million cases of personal data leaked.
Where did that come from? Japan ‘grows’ extra 300m of coastline
Japan has grown in size after a 300m-long strip of new coastline emerged from the sea, rising up to 10m-high in some places. The expansion of the...
Where did that come from? Japan grows additional 300m of coastline
Japan has grown in size after a 300m-long strip of new coastline emerged from the sea, rising up to 10m-high in some places. The expansion of the...
Japan to bolster laws after drone lands on Abe’s office roof
Japan will strengthen legislation governing unmanned aircraft after a small drone appeared to have fallen Wednesday onto the roof of the office of Prime...
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