The Latest Breaking News from Japan

One of the top priorities that the Asean leaders have to vet and approve at the Asean-related summit on Nov 11 is the plan to operationalise the Asean Outlook on the Indo-Pacific (AOIP).

High inflation, rising interest rates, falling currencies and volatile energy prices, together with an economic slowdown and post-pandemic budget woes, may increase pressure on the Asean+3 -- the 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, together with China, Japan and South Korea -- to scale back efforts to…

'PaRappa the Rapper' is an unabashedly weird and adorable music game that paved the way for more offbeat, genre-defying Japanese games to reach overseas audiences.

Now the subject of a documentary, the Japanese musician persevered with his never-ending world tour while undergoing 40 surgeries for cancer in three years. ‘Music is healing,’ he says

The Premiership champions are reportedly closing in on a move for the 22-year-old Vissel Kobe centre-back.

Media in Japan claim an agreement is in place for a switch to Ange Postecoglou's side during the winter transfer window. Kyogo Furuhashi, Daizen Maeda, Reo Hatate and Yosuke Ideguchi has all previously arrived.

Public approval ratings for the government of Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida touched a new low in one opinion poll and clung near lows in another, hit by his party's ties to a controversial church and doubts about a massive spending plan.

As the United States and Japan further strengthen their military alliance, they’ve turned to farmers markets to foster friendlier ties between American military bases and their Japanese neighbors

More than 90% of coral in the Sekisei Lagoon, located between Iriomote and Ishigaki islands in Okinawa Prefecture, has bleached, the Environment Ministry has announced.

Of course Russia should be condemned for targeting civilians. But the brutal U.S. air war on Japan was much worse

The stories making the news in Wales and the wider world this Sunday