Japan

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) observatory has released a first look at the unprecedented data it will collect when science operations begin later this year. The XRISM…

The death toll has risen to 94, with the number of people unaccounted for reaching nearly 250 in the central Japanese prefecture of Ishikawa earlier this week after a series of earthquakes of up to 7.6 magnitude struck the prefecture and…

Japanese transportation authorities on Wednesday started a probe into the cause of a collision between a Coast Guard aircraft and a Japan Airlines (JAL) passenger plane at Tokyo's Haneda Airport the previous day, which led to over 300…

National security advisers of South Korea, the US and Japan reaffirmed on Saturday that North Korea is obliged under UN Security Council resolutions to abandon its nuclear weapons programme. After talks in Seoul, South Korea…

Amid escalating ruling Liberal Democratic Party fund scandal, Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno, country's top government spokesperson, has been accused of not reporting more than 10 million yen (about $70,000 ) in income…

Japan has urged the US to confirm the safety of its Osprey military aircraft, after one crashed into the sea, killing at least one person onboard, Defence Minister Minoru Kihara said on Thursday. "The occurrence of such an…

About 40,000 birds were culled in southern Japan after a highly pathogenic avian influenza outbreak was confirmed, marking the first reported case of bird flu in the country during the autumn and winter season this year. The…

At least nine people were injured after a car plowed into a group of pedestrians on Tuesday in Japan's southwestern prefecture of Fukuoka, according to local media reports. According to the prefectural police, a mini vehicle…

Morgan Stanley expects GDP and EPS growth to again beat expectations in Japan and India and miss in China and emerging markets (EM) in 2024. “We trim our MSCI EM target again to 1,000 (4 per cent upside), with our previously…

A Japanese aircraft carrying a group of South Korean nationals, along with its own people, returned from Israel, the second such flight Japan has offered after South Korea brought Japanese citizens home on its plane last month amid the…