The Latest Breaking News from Japan

Chains across the country have taken action after viral videos showed people licking communal bottles and touching passing food

Japan’s space agency has intentionally destroyed an H3 rocket moments after launch because the ignition for the second stage failed

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol is defending his government’s contentious plan to use local funds to compensate Koreans enslaved by Japanese companies before the end of World War II

Japan Suiso energy boss says hydrogen project incorporating carbon capture and storage ‘truly a watershed moment’ in decarbonising

Next-generation rocket, which Jaxa space agency hopes can compete against SpaceX Falcon, blows itself up after engine failure

Japan said it had destroyed a new medium-lift rocket it launched toward space on Tuesday after the vehicle's second-stage engine failed to ignite.

Japan is pressing ahead with plans to make hydrogen from Victorian coal after a successful test last year, but an environment group has questioned its plans to handle the emissions.

Former Bellator champ Juan Archuleta is returning to Japan for his next fight.

SEOUL -- South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol is motivated by his belief that it is essential to improve South Korea's relationship with Japan amid the increasingly tense security situation in northeast Asia, which led to Monday's announcement of measures to resolve the issue of former wartime requisitioned workers.

SEOUL -- South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin on Monday announced a plan to resolve the issue of lawsuits regarding former wartime requisitioned workers from the Korean Peninsula, saying that a South Korean foundation will pay compensation in lieu of Japanese companies that were ordered to do so.

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida expressed appreciation Monday afternoon ahead of South Korea's announcement on measures to resolve the issue of lawsuits by former wartime requisitioned workers from the Korean Peninsula, saying, "We positively assess it as a means for restoring Japan-South Korea relations to a healthy state."