Japan

Tokyo police have arrested a 20-year-old suspect

Japan's Funai Electric cites sharp decline in sales, trouble sourcing parts for its decision to stop making VCRs

McDonald's Japan's outlets will be key locations -- gyms and PokeStops -- for Pokemon Go players

The “Circuit Marker” allows users to draw an electric circuit that can withstand up to 100 volts

Nintendo set a record for the most shares ever traded daily in Japan

Japan sits at the junction of four tectonic plates and experiences a number of relatively violent quakes every year

The charges come as Bangladesh reels from the killing of 20 hostages last weekend

Line, owned by South Korea's Naver, starts trading in New York on Thursday and in Tokyo Friday

Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) approved extending the life of two reactors beyond 40 years

Files reveal police in Tokyo had been monitoring mosques, halal restaurants, and 'Islam-related' organisations

The participation of all three countries revealed their "hegemonic scenario for disturbing regional peace and security

Both intermediate-range missiles capable of reaching US bases as far away as Guam

Rescuers are searching for people in the southern prefecture of Kumamoto

Okinawa hosts 50,000 US nationals, including 30,000 military personnel and civilians employed at US bases

China's rising military presence in Asian waters have sparked concerns in Japan

Bear attacks on humans are usual in mountainous Akita prefecture on the island of Honshu

Rule states that if you are more than 15 kilos above average weight for your height, you cannot make reservation

If approved, it will join other newly announced elements: moscovium, tennessine and oganesson.

Experts say most illegal ivory heads for China. The country accounts for as much as 70 percent of global demand.

'Considering the factors behind the case, the chances of making it a prosecutable one are extremely slim' lawyer

The incident was captured by a visitor at Chiba Zoological Park in Tokyo, Japan

'Dad made you go though such a hard time. I am sorry'," the elder Tanooka to the boy

A series of crimes including rapes, assaults and hit-and-run accidents are committed by US military personnel

The boy had been missing since Saturday

Lari is the third Pakistani recipient of the Fukuoka Prize with qawwali maestro Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

Japanese naval destroyers and anti-ballistic missile Patriot batteries to be ready to shoot down any projectile

Mourners flocked to Tokyo's Inokashira Park Zoo to pay their respects on Friday with condolence cards left for Hanako

The trip comes more than seven decades after the Enola Gay bomber dropped its deadly atomic payload over the city

China says 300,000 people died in a six-week spree of killing after the Japanese military entered Nanjing in 1937

A Japanese aquarium hatches two Humboldt penguin chicks using artificial insemination

Obama will become the first sitting US leader to travel to the city, the site of the world's first nuclear attack

'It's important to recognise that in the midst of war, leaders make all kinds of decisions' Obama says

Officials in both countries have made clear they want to stress the present and future, not dig into the past

The drill will be held in the waters near Hawaii on June 28

The agreement was made Monday afternoon during telephone talks

Government stimulus measures, lower commodity prices and low unemployment will help drive regional expansion

A strong currency is damaging for Japan's exporting giants, such as Toyota and Sony

Various territorial and historical disputes have soured bilateral relations in the past

Ties between China and Japan, world's second- and third-largest economies, have been plagued by territorial disputes

BoJ shocked markets after it adopted the negative rate policy, effectively charging banks to store excess reserves

Technological super power Japan has one of the world's most advanced defence forces

International race between France, Germany and Japan to win contract to build new submarines is reaching a climax

Japan's overall exports fall nearly seven percent in March, largely owing to a pickup in the yen

At least 41 people are known to have died in the double disaster

Rescuers pull 10 students out of a collapsed university apartment in the same settlement on Saturday

Rescuers dug through the rubble of collapsed buildings and mud and debris on Saturday to try and reach those trapped

The quake hit Kumamoto prefecture of the Kyushu main island at 1:25 am, says USGS

Video footage shows tiny pink pyjama-clad baby gently carried away in a blanket by helmeted rescuers from the rubble

Across the nation, more than 8,000 kids annually require medical treatment after taking part in the discipline

Japan's biggest firms including Sony and Toyota shut down operations in southern Japan