The Latest Breaking News from Japan

After decades of peace, Japan is now confronting the possibility of a war with China. Some along a string of islands in the nation's southwest fear they're in the firing line.

In Dublin, it takes an average of 28 minutes and 30 seconds to drive 10 kilometres.

Unmanned Chinese surveillance balloons are "strongly suspected" to have flown in Japan's airspace three times since November 2019, the Japanese government has announced.

Japan’s defence ministry ‘strongly suspects’ Chinese surveillance balloons entered Japanese airspace thrice since 2019.

A team of researchers has announced the first successful cultivation in Japan of truffles, an expensive ingredient in Western cooking that is said to be one of the world's top three luxury foods, along with foie gras and caviar.

Visitors to Japan climbed to nearly 1.5 million in January, the national tourism agency said on Wednesday, showing an accelerating recovery in tourism after the government scrapped COVID-19 curbs in October.

A fresh analysis of unidentified aerial objects that flew over Japan's airspace in recent years "strongly" suggests they were Chinese spy balloons, according to Tokyo's defense ministry. "After further analysis of specific balloon-shaped flying objects previously identified in Japanese airspace, including those in November 2019, June 2020 and September 2021,…

A Queensland tour company has been fined $250,000 after two Japanese schoolboys drowned when their school group visited K'gari (Fraser Island).

TOKYO: Japan's government said on Tuesday that three unidentified flying objects spotted over the nation's territory in three years from 2019 are "strongly suspected" to have been Chinese spy balloons.