The Latest Breaking News from Tokyo

Ahead of Jaishankar-Rajnath meeting in Tokyo, Abe’s advisor and speech writer calls India an “ideal partner”

The Tokyo 2020 organizing committee executive board member already under arrest in an Olympics-related bribery probe is now suspected of acting as an intermediary for major publisher Kadokawa Corp. to be selected as an official Tokyo Games sponsor, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned.

TOKYO: Nissan Motor Co is set to end sales of its iconic March compact car in Japan, sources familiar with the matter said, as the popularity of one of the company's best-selling cars fades about 40 years after its launch.

"We are 10 countries in now. Been on the road 171 days, cycled 13 or 14,000 kilometres. So it has been a wild adventure."

The former chairman of Tokyo Olympics sponsor Aoki Holdings has told prosecutors he gave 2 million yen ($14,300) in cash to the head of the Games' organising committee, former prime minister Yoshiro Mori, the Sankei daily reported.

In 1940, Seattle-based Boeing engineers designed a massive beast of an aircraft. The B-29 Superfortress — composed of 55,000 parts — had a tail three-stories high, enormous propellers and a 5,500-mile range.

Some recipients of organ transplants abroad were refused medical examinations or regular visits to hospitals in Japan, contrary to explanations they had received from a Tokyo-based nonprofit organization that facilitated the surgeries, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned.

Japan condemns the participation of the separatist Polisario Front in the eighth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD), which was held on August 27 and 28 in the Tunisian capital, Tunis. The Japanese delegation made a statement during the proceedings of the first plenary session of the summit, in…

Japan will coordinate with other creditors to resolve Sri Lanka's deepening financial crisis, Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki said on Tuesday, urging all creditor nations to gather and discuss the South Asian nation's debt at the same table.

Thanks in part to Tokyo's hosting of the Paralympic Games last year, disabled athletes and the sports they compete in have been garnering increased public attention.

A group of Australians are stranded at Narita airport in Tokyo "without food or water", unable to leave due to Japan's strict COVID controls, after Jetstar cancelled their connecting flight from Finland to Australia.