Japan has accelerated plans to devote 2 percent of its GDP — and more — to its military as China grows more assertive and the ...

Japan's space agency said its H3 rocket carrying a navigation satellite failed to put the payload into a planned orbit, a ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, who took office two months ago, has backed nuclear restarts to strengthen energy security.

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F or nigh on 1,000 years, the Japanese pirates have wreaked havoc…they respect only force, and their hearts are bursting with ...

China's Foreign Ministry has fired a warning shot after a senior Japanese official suggested Tokyo should reconsider its nearly eight-decade ban on nuclear weapons in light of the worsening regional ...

No reports of major injuries or structural damage have emerged, and authorities have not issued a tsunami warning.

A local government in Japan voted Monday to restart the world's largest nuclear power plant, which has been closed since 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.

Japanese’s chief currency official warned of “deep concern” over the yen’s weakness as traders weigh the risk of government intervention to arrest its slide. Atsushi Mimura, Japan’s vice-finance ...

Japan’s chief currency official sent a warning on recent foreign exchange moves, after the yen weakened against the dollar ...

Japan is lifting a megaquake advisory for the country’s northeastern coast, a week after a magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck ...

The plant, once among 54 reactors shut after a massive earthquake and tsunami crippled Fukushima, could soon bring one of its ...