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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

Japan has suffered a number of aftershocks since the devastating New Year's Day quake, which rattled the the Noto Peninsula on Honshu, Japan's largest and and most populous island

A shop, based in a trailer at the Ebina service area on the Tomei Expressway in Japan, claims it makes the "best apple pie in the world" so one man thought he'd check it out

The Japanese city of Osaka is served by the Kansai International airport, which spans two artificial islands in Osaka Bay, and first opened in 1994 - but now it's sinking

Dedicated Japanese monks spent years going through the horrifying process of turning themselves into mummies whilst they were still alive, mimicking a ninth-century monk named Kūkai

Those in the cockpit of Japan Airlines flight JAL516 were unaware the plane had burst into flames in the moments after its tragic collision with a coastguard aircraft, which killed five people

At least three of those stabbed were taken to hospital following the disorder on the train that stopped on the Yamanote loop line at Akihabara Station in the heart of Tokyo

Five people were killed when a passenger jet and a coastguard plane collided at Tokyo's Haneda Airport and now authorities have launched a probe into possible professional negligence

A Japan Airlines plane turned into a fireball after colliding with a coastguard aircraft at Tokyo's Haneda Airport but all 379 passengers remarkably survived - here's how