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The rooms are filled with elderly residents, their hands wrinkled and backs bent. They shuffle slowly down the corridors, some using walkers. Workers help them bathe, eat, walk and take their medication.

Firefly Aerospace from the US and the Japanese firm ispace shared the ride with SpaceX from the Kennedy Space Centre to save money.

New fighter jets set to replace the RAF’s Typhoons have been seen for the first time.

Japanese police say 22-year-old woman arrested as witness describes panic after attacker ‘all of a sudden’ began swinging hammer in classroom.

US authorities charged Takeshi Ebisawa with conspiring to traffic nuclear materials from Myanmar for expected use by Iran in nuclear weapons.

Onodera Group paid second highest price ever at prestigious annual new year auction at Tokyo’s main fish market.

Itooka was born in 1908 in Osaka and and had four children along with five grandchildren. Japan has over 95,000 people aged 100 or older.

Journalists have published data obtained from 29 secret Russian military files.

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'