Mayor says Japanese city will respect donor’s specification that £2.7m gift must be used to repair dilapidated systemOsaka has received a hefty gift of gold bars worth 560m yen (£2.7m) from an anonymous donor and a request for its specific use: to fix …
Close encounters reported almost daily as bears intrude into residential areas and attack and sometimes kill peopleJapan has deployed troops to the northern prefecture of Akita to help contain a surge in the number of bear attacks that have terrorised …
Assassination of former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe spurred official request for closure of South Korea-based sectA court in Japan has ordered the Unification church to be dissolved after a government request spurred by the investigation into the 2022 assas…
Itooka, who died at a care home in Ashiya, enjoyed bananas and had been a keen mountain climberA Japanese woman who was the world’s oldest living person has died at the age of 116.Tomiko Itooka, who was awarded the Guinness World Record status last yea…
Ishiba’s governing coalition lost majority and needs to find new partner or get consent from opposition to enact policyJapan’s parliament re-elected the prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba, on Monday after his governing coalition suffered the worst election…
One person dead and several missing after deluge in Noto, still recovering from 1 January earthquakeHeavy rain pounded Japan’s north-central Noto region, triggering landslides and floods and leaving one person dead and several missing, officials have s…
City’s mayor says Israel not invited because of risk of protests at event honouring victims of 1945 nuclear blastThe US ambassador to Japan will skip this year’s memorial service for the nuclear attack on Nagasaki because Israel has not been invited, t…
Yamanashi prefecture brings in modest hiking fee to stop ‘bullet climbing’ and address safety concernsA crowd-control gate has been installed halfway up Mount Fuji before the start of this year’s climbing season on 1 July, but the governor of Yamanashi…
The quakes, the largest of which had a magnitude of 7.6, started a fire and collapsed buildings on the west coast of Japan’s main island, HonshuJapan has dropped its highest-level tsunami alert after issuing one after a series of major earthquakes on M…
The quakes, the largest of which had a magnitude of 7.6, started a fire and collapsed buildings on the west coast of Japan’s main island, HonshuJapan has dropped its highest-level tsunami alert after issuing one after a series of major earthquakes on M…
The quakes, the largest of which had a magnitude of 7.6, started a fire and collapsed buildings on the west coast of Japan’s main island, HonshuJapan has dropped its highest-level tsunami alert after issuing one after a series of major earthquakes on M…
Aircraft crashed last week off south-western Japan carrying eight American personnel on training missionUS and Japanese divers have discovered wreckage and remains of five crew members from a US air force Osprey aircraft that crashed last week off sout…
Status of five other personnel aboard Osprey aircraft not known after incident off Yakushima island, off southern Kyushu coastA crew member who was recovered from the ocean after a US military Osprey aircraft carrying six people crashed on Wednesday of…
Judges reject requirement for trans people to remove reproductive organs for state-recognised gender changeA law requiring transgender people in Japan to undergo sterilisation surgery in order to officially change their gender is unconstitutional, the …
Police say two people were fatally stabbed and two police officers who came to investigate were shot deadJapanese police have detained a suspect who had been holed up in a building after allegedly killing four people including two police officers in a …
Three women held by police on suspicion of assaulting children at nursery school in city of SusonoPolice have arrested three teachers at a nursery school in central Japan on suspicion they routinely abused toddlers, including hitting their heads, holdi…
Guess Who member gets back the Gretsch that he used to write American Woman, after fan tracked it down in Tokyo using photos of woodgrainThe Canadian rock legend Randy Bachman’s long search has come to an end with him being reunited in Tokyo with a che…
Plaintiffs say they endured decades of abuse after resettlement campaign in which Tokyo colludedA Tokyo court has rejected a lawsuit filed by five people seeking compensation from North Korea for what they said was decades of abuse after they were lure…
Tsunami warning cancelled after quake cut power to 2m homes and damaged some buildingsA powerful 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Fukushima in northern Japan on Wednesday evening, leaving four dead, and plunging more than 2m homes in th…
Suspect left knife behind after fleeing commuter transit, with two people seriously injuredA man has stabbed at least 10 passengers on a commuter train in Tokyo, seriously injuring two people.The suspect left a knife behind as he fled, and was arrested…