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Hidakanyo receives accolade for campaign to rid world of nuclear weapons by ‘describing the indescribable’

Unexpected blast at Miyazaki airport makes crater in taxiway and leads to grounding of 80 flights but no injuries

The world’s longest-serving death row inmate has been acquitted over 50 years after his sentencing.

Millions of people have been ordered to leave their homes after Typhoon Shanshan hit Japan.

Concerns have been raised after the world’s largest economy reported much lower-than-expected job creation in July.

Watson, founder of Sea Shepherd and co-founder of Greenpeace, has been arrested on an international warrant and is facing charges including accomplice to assault and ship trespass

Deal for undisclosed sum secures Bristol-based company’s future after ‘material uncertainty’ in 2023

Iwao Hakamada, 88, who spent longer than anyone in the world awaiting execution, awaits murder retrial verdict

Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako of Japan are beginning a three-day state visit to the UK.

With a “peace summit” set to take place in Switzerland later this June, speculation is again rampant regarding the potential for ending Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine via some form of diplomatic solution.

Fujitsu’s UK public sector chief said the promise it made was simply an ’extra gateway check’ for the firm

Officials believe the cat fell into a vat of hexavalent chromium - a highly acidic and carcinogenic chemical that can cause skin irritation, breathing difficulties and blindness

FX and Disney Plus' Shōgun stars Cosmo Jarvis, Hiroyuki Sanada and Anna Sawai

For the past millennium Japan’s Somin-sai festival has been held at the Myokenzan Kokuseki-ji Temple throughout the night of the seventh day of the Lunar New Year to pray for abundant harvests and good health

Cosmo Jarvis, Hiroyuki Sanada and Anna Sawai star in the FX and Disney+ samurai series

A man who forked out a staggering £12,480 to become a border collie called Toco has shared that he will happily let children pet him as he assured parents he 'doesn't bite'

An estimated 5,500 litres of radioactive water leaked from Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant - but no sign of contamination has been detected outside the facility

Ukrainian-born Karoline Shiino was crowned Miss Japan but has renounced her title after controversy over her heritage as well as reports of a relationship with a married man

Rear Adm. Carlos Sardiello, commander of the USS Carl Vinson strike group, said American aircraft vessels can 'execute the mission regardless of what the threat is'

The man, who told authorities in Japan his name was Satoshi Kirishima, died in hospital after he confessed to being part of a radical group which carried out bombings

The 10-day search to rescue two Navy Seals lost in the Arabian Sea earlier this month has ended and the sailors are now considered deceased, the US military said on Sunday

The US-bound All Nippon Airways Flight 118 flight was forced to return to Tokyo after an intoxicated male passenger bit a female crew member just three hours into the flight

Two planes collided at New Chitose Airport in Hokkaido, which had earlier tweeted warnings of delays and cancellations as a result of heavy snow in the area

The male victim was shot in the chest yesterday at a shopping mall in Shikokuchuo city in Ehime prefecture on Japan’s southwestern main island of Shikoku, while sipping a Starbucks coffee