Toyota subsidiary has admitted falsifying data on some models for more than 30 yearsProduction was suspended at the last operating domestic factory of Japanese automaker Daihatsu on Tuesday, as the Toyota subsidiary grapples with a safety testing scand…
Electronics firm taken private in £11bn deal by consortium led by Japan Industrial PartnersToshiba, the Japanese company synonymous with the country’s 20th-century dominance of electronics, has delisted from the Tokyo stock exchange after 74 years.The …
Swedish visual artist Jennifer Rainsford has made an at times mesmerising film that follows the aftermath of Japan’s disastrous 2011 earthquakeIn March 2011, a six-minute earthquake triggered a tsunami in Japan that killed 18,000 people. It was a devas…
Four ministers resign amid reports that prosecutors were poised to raid offices of dozens of ruling party MPsJapan’s prime minister, Fumio Kishida, is battling to contain the fallout from a political fundraising scandal that forced the resignations of …
Director Takashi Yamazaki sets his destroyer of worlds against a postwar Japan still recovering from the effects of the A-bomb with the little people left to work out how to save themselvesThere are bazillions of Godzilla films out there, both from Jap…
The Japanese director’s animation beats The Hunger Games prequel and Godzilla Minus One on its opening weekend in the US and CanadaThe Boy and the Heron, reportedly the final film from Japanese master animator Hayao Miyazaki, has taken the number one s…
Los Angeles are getting both a brilliant pitcher and hitter in the Japanese star. They’ll also reap an enormous boost in incomeCulturally, it’s the biggest free agency splash in North American sports since LeBron James left Cleveland for Miami in “The …
The veteran animation genius has said he’s retiring – but as he’s changed his mind before, should anyone take his word for it? We travel to Ghibli HQ in Tokyo to find out what’s going onWhen Hayao Miyazaki, the world’s greatest living animator, approac…
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For two years, the Kyoto musician has risen at five, watched football, then made an eight-track album of super-deep ambient music – while fitting in a two-hour walk. And 200,000 fans are listeningWhen you’re interviewing a musician, it’s considered a g…
Diplomats for Climate group says if government wants to use that defence ‘it needs to be the dealer who takes their clients to rehab and supports them off their habit’Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe Albanese…
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…
Joint project with EU involves more than 500 scientists and engineers and more than 70 companiesThe world’s biggest operational experimental nuclear fusion reactor – a technology in its infancy but billed by some as the answer to humanity’s future ener…