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Japan will on March 31 deploy homegrown longer-range missiles in the country for the first time, the Defense Ministry announced Monday, as part of its “counterstrike capability” to deter enemies — and potentially strike...

OpenAI on Wednesday (Feb 25) said it banned the ChatGPT account of an individual linked to Chinese law enforcement, who had tried to use the chatbot to plan an influence operation against Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Ta...

China restricted Tuesday exports to 40 Japanese entities it says are contributing to Japan’s “remilitarization,” in the latest escalation of tensions with Tokyo.

Chinese tourists are continuing to shun Japan in large numbers, with the country falling out of the top 10 destinations for those celebrating the lunar new year with a trip abroad.

Japanese authorities have seized a Chinese ‌fishing boat and arrested ⁠its captain ⁠for allegedly fleeing inspection in its exclusive economic ⁠zone, an incident that could further inflame tensions between Asia's top two...

Heavy snow piling up in northern Japan in the last two weeks has blocked roads and is being blamed for dozens of deaths nationwide.

Tokyo police have arrested the suspected head of one of Japan’s largest tokuryu organised crime groups after a year-long manhunt, but analysts have warned that such gangs are typically resilient and can operate without t...

Japan’s nuclear watchdog said Wednesday it is scrapping the safety screening for two reactors at the Hamaoka nuclear power plant in central Japan, after its operator was found to have fabricated data about earthquake ris...

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 hit the western Chugoku region of Japan on Tuesday, followed by a series of sizeable aftershocks, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.

A 6.9 magnitude earthquake shook northeastern Japan and caused small tsunami waves but no apparent damage Friday, days after a stronger quake in the same region.

Relations have been strained since Japan's new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi suggested last month that her country could intervene militarily in any Chinese attack on Taiwan.

Japan's defence ministry says it scrambled aircraft after detecting a suspected Chinese drone off an island near Taiwan, amid a weeks-long diplomatic spat between Tokyo and Beijing.

Japan deployed troops to the country's rugged north on Wednesday to help trap bears after local authorities said besieged communities were struggling to cope with an unprecedented wave of attacks.

Bears have killed a record number of people in Japan this year, the environment ministry said on Oct 16 just as another possible victim was reported missing.

Japan's governing party on Saturday elected former Economic Security Minister Sanae Takaichi, a hard-line ultra-conservative and China hawk, as its new leader, making her likely to become the country's first female prime...

A major Japanese beverage producer says it has been hit by a cyberattack that left its operations disrupted for the fifth day on Friday, and Japanese media are reporting that stocks of the company’s popular beer and othe...

Heavy rain flooded some streets and halted rail and air traffic in Tokyo on Thursday with more storms forecast.

A research institute in Japan says the number of people infected so far this year with a disease transmitted mainly by ticks has reached a record high.

Japanese weather officials say a tropical storm is moving north over waters south of the Kyushu region and bringing intermittent heavy rain as it approaches southern Kyushu.

Heavy rain emergency warnings were issued across Kumamoto Prefecture in southwestern Japan at one point on Monday, as developed rainclouds are streaming into the skies over the Kyushu region.