Japan

Typhoon will be the latest in a series of extreme natural events to strike Japan

Trami is the latest storm to threaten Japan in a year filled with more than the usual number of disasters

Pakistan's stance presented before comity of nations

Abe has been a longtime hard-liner regarding North Korea

Tokyo police arrested woman suspected of dumping stillborn baby's body in coin locker

Japanese ambassador Takashi Kurai meets Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry in Islamabad

The drill came after British Royal Navy assault ship sailed close to islands to navigate with 'freedom'

The demographic shift is due to a combination of a low birthrate and long life expectancy

The quake was the latest in a string of natural disasters to batter the island nation

Japan is suffering its first outbreak of pig cholera in more than 25 years

The quake was the latest in a string of natural disasters to batter the country

Around 22 people are still unaccounted for in the small northern countryside town of Atsuma

The quake knocked out power to 5.3 million residents

Japan is regularly hit by powerful typhoons in the summer and autumn

More than a million people have been urged to evacuate as the storm battered the country's west

Veterans says onus of bad performance in Games on players, rather than federation

India beat Pakistan 2-1; Japan edge out Malaysia 3-1 in the final's penalty shootout

To support installation of weather radar in Multan and HR development scholarship

It will be the seventh straight annual increase as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reinforces country’s military

Men in Green lose semi-final 1-0, after Malaysia enter final with 7-6 shootout win

Japanese Ambassador Takashi Kurai met with National Assembly speaker Asad Qaiser

Irfan, Butt believe offensive approach has helped team slay opponents in pool matches

The 84-year-old emperor's decision to abdicate has given experts a rare head start in choosing the new era's name

Japan's 2018 defence white paper takes aim at China's rise as a military power

The man believed to be a videographer gets caught filming a military facility in Nampo city

According to reports, Cimaron turns towards the northern island of Hokkaido after sweeping three students out to sea

As Japan is hosting Olympics in 2020, it sheds positive light after basketball players were caught paying for sex

Historians say up to 200,000 women were forced to work in Japanese military brothels during World War II

Men in Green beat Japan 2-0 in pre-tournament friendly

Earlier on Wednesday, Abe sent a ritual offering to Tokyo's controversial Yasukuni Shrine for war dead

The search for him had made headlines nationwide in Japan

A rescue helicopter crashed on Friday in a mountainous area in central Japan

Typhoon Shanshan was expected to make landfall about 100kilometres northeast of Tokyo by early Thursday

The lawyers said they did not know how many women had been affected

The weapons include 1,400 firearms, 1,200 swords, eight grenades and 302 bullets, buried during or after World War II

Hunt is in China in a bid to strengthen trade ties with Beijing ahead of Britain's exit

Prompting local authorities to issue early evacuation orders

It is Japan's worst weather- disaster in years, and many residents of affected areas are still living in shelters

Chinese tourists accounted for 47 per cent of international visitors to Palau in 2016

In the week to Sunday at least 65 people died of heat stroke while 22,647 people were hospitalised

Japan is taking emergency steps to boost the number of child welfare workers by 60% within five years

Barcelona legend joins new club Vissel Kobe on Wednesday

Deal is largest ever negotiated by EU and creates a zone covering a third of world’s GDP

High temperatures hampered the recovery in flood-hit areas where more than 200 people died last week

The country's meteorological agency has warned that the heat is "more severe" than normal.

The death toll rose to 195, with several dozen people still missing, the government said on Thursday

Officials warn of the additional danger of food-borne illnesses, urge people to wash hands and take other measures

The crisis is the deadliest rain-related disaster in over three decades, and one that has sparked national grief

Nearly 2 million people still face orders or advice to keep away from homes

Pompeo will hold three-way talks with Kono and South Korea’s Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-Wha in Japan later on Sunday