The Latest Breaking News from Japan

In a recent study, a team of researchers from Japan discussed strategies to observe and possibly predict precursor signatures for an explosion from Local Type II and Galactic supernovae.

Arsenal have been hit with a number of injury scares ahead of the north London derby during the international break.

Typhoon Talas has ripped through towns and cities in Japan with severe winds reaching 100 kph and heavy rain causing landslides and severe flooding with two men having been killed

Toyota Motor Corp has decided to cease vehicle production permanently at its lone car plant in Russia, a rare move for a company that is still manufacturing at sites in Japan dating back to its founding in the 1930s.

A typhoon lashed central Japan on Saturday with torrential rain and fierce winds, killing two and leaving tens of thousands of households without power, the Kyodo news agency reported.

MotoGP teams have chosen to proceed with qualifying for the Japanese Grand Prix on the original timetable despite the looming threat of heavy rainfall from Typhoon Talas.

Tropical Depression Talas has unleashed fierce rainfall in parts of Japan, setting off landslides, halting trains and killing a man after he crashed his car into a pond

Teammate Daizen Maeda was preferred ahead of the Parkhead talisman in the win over America.

Anger is growing in Japan over the state funeral for Shinzo Abe, who was assassinated in July. The former prime minister had links to the Unification Church, a controversial religious organisation based in South Korea. We find out more about the relationship between the sect and Japan's political elite by…