Boss of Japan crime syndicate conspired to traffic nuclear material, say US prosecutors
Takeshi Ebisawa is being charged over a conspiracy to traffic uranium and plutonium from Myanmar, believing Iran would use it to make weapons The head...
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Expensive toilets cause a stink at Japan’s world expo
Row over £1.05m amenities block comes amid growing concern over the cost of the event, which is taking place in Osaka in 2025 Visitors to...
Fujitsu won £1.4bn in new government contracts after court ruling on Post Office software bugs
MPs find Treasury-affiliated bodies have engaged Horizon firm since damning 2019 high court judgment The Japanese technology company Fujitsu, whose flawed technology for the Post...
Japan’s former PM, 83-year-old Aso, piles insults on female foreign minister
Taro Aso, vice-president of ruling LDP, said Yoko Kamikawa ‘not that good looking’, got her name wrong, used ageist jibe and mixed up her place...
Taiwan election: global leaders draw Beijing’s ire for congratulating new president
China urges US, UK and Japan not to interfere in ‘China’s internal affairs’ after they congratulate Lai Ching-te for election win Global leaders have congratulated...
Japan earthquake death toll reaches 100 as more survivors pulled from rubble
Number of missing lowered to 211 as thousands of troops join rescue effort and experts warn of disease risk at evacuation centres The death toll...
Woman in 90s pulled alive from rubble five days after Japan earthquake
Boy, five, among 126 people dead, after boiling water spilled on him during Monday’s 7.6 magnitude quake A woman in her 90s has been pulled...
Japan earthquake: death toll rises to 62 amid warnings of landslides and aftershocks
Ishikawa and its Noto peninsula, one of the worst affected areas, has been hit by more than 100 aftershocks Japanese rescuers were scrambling to search...
Passenger jet in fiery crash at Haneda airport was cleared to land, Japan Airlines says
In a recording from the control tower apparently taken before impact, a voice can be heard advising JAL’s flight to ‘continue approach’ A passenger jet...
Japan: plane collision at Tokyo airport leaves five dead on coastguard aircraft but Japan Airlines passengers evacuate – as it happened
Six coastguards were on plane, which was delivering earthquake relief supplies, which hit Japan Airlines plane at Haneda airport. This live blog is closed Five...
