Trump heaps praise on Japan’s first female leader, signs rare earths deal
U.S. President Donald Trump lavished praise on Japan’s first female leader Sanae Takaichi in Tokyo on Tuesday, welcoming the new prime min...
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Hardline Takaichi elected as Japanese premier, shattering glass ceiling
Hardline conservative Sanae Takaichi was elected Japan’s first female prime minister on Tuesday, shattering the nation’s glass ceiling and ...
Japan approves its first over-the-counter ‘morning-after’ pill
Japan has given regulatory approval for an over-the-counter contraceptive pill, its manufacturer said on Oct 20, the first time the social...
US-Japanese trio win medicine Nobel for immune system research
American scientists Mary Brunkow and Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi from Japan won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on M...
Sanae Takaichi set to become Japan’s first woman prime minister
Sanae Takaichi is poised to become Japan's first female prime minister, but many of her positions are socially conservative in an often ...
Alcaraz rallies past Ruud to book Fritz final in Japan Open
World number one Carlos Alcaraz recovered from a slow start to beat Casper Ruud 3-6 6-3 6-4 on Monday and reach the Japan Open final where ...
Alcaraz survives injury scare to beat Baez on Tokyo debut
World number one Carlos Alcaraz overcame a foot injury scare to beat Argentina’s Sebastian Baez 6-4 6-2 on his Tokyo Open debut on Thursday...
Japan PM Ishiba resigns after series of bruising election losses
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said on Sunday he had decided to resign, ushering in a potentially lengthy period of policy paralysi...
A second Japanese boxer has died from a brain injury suffered at an event in Tokyo
Hiromasa Urakawa, 28, died on Saturday after he was beaten via knockout in the eighth round of his fight with Yoji Saito on 2 August. It f...
Powerful earthquake of magnitude 8.8 hits Russia’s Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula: Tsunami threat warnings issued from Russia to Japan
A powerful magnitude 8.8 earthquake off Russia’s Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula triggered tsunami waves of up to 5 metres (16 feet) nearb...
Magnitude 6.1 earthquake hits Japan’s Hokkaido
A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck Japan’s Hokkaido today, according to the country’s Meteorological Agency, which reported the focal depth a...
Three dead in Japan after medical helicopter crash
Three people have been confirmed dead after a medical transport helicopter crash off southwestern Japan on Sunday, Kyodo News reported, ci...
Japan become first nation to qualify for World Cup
Japan became the first team to qualify for the 2026 World Cup on Thursday as Daichi Kamada and Takefusa Kubo struck in the second half to ...
U.S., South Korea, Japan vow to counter North Korea’s nuclear threat in first talks since Trump’s return
The foreign ministers of the United States, South Korea, and Japan reaffirmed their commitment to the “complete denuclearization” of North ...
Southern Japan hit by strong quake near Nankai Trough region
Southern Japan was hit by a strong earthquake on Monday that authorities said did not warrant the kind of megaquake warning that was trigg...
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