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Australia and Japan sign agreements on defence, energy and critical minerals – video
The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, and his Japanese counterpart, Sanae Takaichi, have announced a new agree…
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Wildfires tear across northern Japan – video
Residents of hundreds of homes in Iwate, northern Japan, have been ordered to evacuate after wildfires broke o…
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‘Tuna King’ pays record £2.4m for 243kg giant bluefin at Tokyo auction – video
The head of the sushi restaurant chain Sushizanmai bid 510.3m yen (£2.4m) for a single bluefin tuna, the highe…
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Bells and whistles: how our reporter prepared for visiting bear hotspot – video
The town of Osaki has been making the headlines as a bear hotspot as Japan reels from a year of record ursine …
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CCTV shows moment powerful earthquake hits Japan – video
CCTV footage showed tremors in cities across north-eastern Japan on Monday after a powerful 7.5…
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Sanae Takaichi elected Japan’s first female prime minister in historic vote – video
Sanae Takaichi made history by becoming the country’s first female prime minister, receiving 237 votes in parl…
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Fire breaks out on firework launch barges at Yokohama festival – video
Blazes broke out on two of eight barges being used to launch fireworks, according to police and coastguard off…
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Tsunami alerts from Japan to the US after earthquake sparks warnings across Pacific – video report
A powerful 8.8-magnitude earthquake triggered a series of tsunami warnings and evacuation orders stretching ac…
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Bear on runway halts flights at Japanese airport – video
A bear entered the runway area of Yamagata airport on Thursday, forcing a temporary shutdown and flight cancel…
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Firefighters struggle to contain seven-day wildfire in north-east Japan – video
Firefighters are struggling to contain a wildfire in north-east Japan which has been burning for seven days. A…
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Justin McCurry’s day of eating only Japanese convenience store food – video
Unlike their western counterparts, convenience stores – or konbini – are a neat and functional retail institut…
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Japan: landslide buries house while country prepares for powerful typhoon – video report
Firefighters in Japan rescued a survivor from a house badly damaged in a deadly landslide in central Japan. Th…
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Office workers find cover as 7.1-magnitude quake rocks southern Japan – video
An earthquake struck off the eastern coast of Kyushu on Thursday, triggering tsunami warnings. There were no i…
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Penny Wong meets Quad foreign ministers in Tokyo for talks on maritime security – video
Top diplomats from Japan, the US, Australia and India met on Monday to discuss security concerns and joint sup…
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The Japanese sex drought: why are married women so uninterested in making love?
The country’s celibacy epidemic hit the news in 2013 – and it has grown much, much worse. But it certainly isn…
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The Japanese sex drought: why are married women so uninterested in making love?
The country’s celibacy epidemic hit the news in 2013 – and it has grown much, much worse. But it certainly isn…
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Japan’s former PM Taro Aso insults female foreign minister – video
A Japanese former prime minister and vice-president of the ruling Liberal Democratic party has been accused of…
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Japan becomes fifth country to put spacecraft on moon as lander reaches lunar surface – video
Japan has become the fifth country to put a spacecraft on the moon after its Smart Lander for Investigating Mo…
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Aerial images of plane wreckage after crash at Japan’s Haneda airport – video
A Japan Airlines passenger jet collided with a coastguard plane in a catastrophic accident at Haneda airport i…
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Rescue efforts in Japan hampered as hundreds still missing after earthquake – video
Japan’s prime minister has said the country is facing a 'battle against time' to rescue those affected by a se…