Japan's coast guard said North Korea has notified it that it plans to launch a satellite in coming days, which may be an attempt to put a military reconnaissance satellite into orbit.
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy joined leaders of major democracies on Saturday at a summit in Japan dominated by a push to present a unified front against both Russia and China.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed a summit of Arab leaders in Saudi Arabia before what a senior official said would be a trip to Japan for a meeting with the leaders of the world's most powerful democracies.
Following the cancellation of the Quad meeting in Sydney next week, it's a crucial chance for Albanese to speak with some of Australia's closest allies.
Jack Ma, a cofounder of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, will be a visiting professor at Tokyo College, a research institute run by the prestigious University of Tokyo
The Japanese airline that mistakenly sold flight tickets for a fraction of their normal cost due to a technical glitch has announced it will not honour the sales.
Energy and environment ministers vowed to work to hasten the shift toward cleaner, renewable energy, but set no timetable for phasing out coal-fired power plants.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was evacuated unharmed on Saturday after someone threw an explosive device at a campaign event in a western port city, officials said.
Images captured by a robotic probe inside one of the three melted reactors at Japan's wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant showed exposed steel bars in the main supporting structure and parts of its thick external concrete wall missing.
Despite the law, men remained "afraid" that taking the leave may have a negative effect on their promotion prospects or that they may be reassigned to a different position with fewer responsibilities.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida made a surprise visit Tuesday to Kyiv, stealing some of the attention from Asian rival President Xi Jinping of China, who met in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin to promote Beijing's peace proposal for Ukraine that Western nations have already criticised.
TIME magazine has released its world's greatest places to visit in 2023 and the list may surprise you with some contenders from Australia's own backyard.
Anniversary of the massive earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster marked with a minute of silence, as concerns grow ahead of the planned release of the treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant.
A former Financial Services Ombudsman staffer who claimed he was the victim of a campaign of threats, prompting thousands of dollars being spent on private security, has been jailed for his lies.
The boss of a 158-year-old Japanese guesthouse has apologised for only changing the water in its spa bath twice a year, after it was found to be teeming with potentially deadly bacteria.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said it was "now or never" for Japan to turn the issue of its aging population around, while speaking at the opening of Japan's first parliamentary session for 2023 on Monday.
After years of lockdowns, border closures and travel restrictions, it seems we've almost completely returned to a pre-pandemic world. With international travel set to boom in 2023, here's a look at the best hotspots to visit.
Japanese prosecutors formally charged the suspect in the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with murder, sending him to stand trial, a Japanese court said on Friday.
An airplane made an emergency landing in central Japan on Saturday morning after receiving an apparent bomb threat, public broadcaster NHK reported, citing police sources.
For thousands of years, myths and legends have swirled around these large destructives waves. Now one expert has flagged how long Australia would have if the "worst case scenario" happened.