North Korea said it successfully test-launched a first intercontinental ballistic missile, (ICBM), which analysts said could put all of the US state of Alaska in range for the first time.
New Zealand spied on Japan and passed information to the United States during an international whaling meeting, according to a newly published paper.
Japan said on Friday it was recalling its ambassador to South Korea over a statue commemorating Korean women forced to work in Japanese military brothels during World War 2 and that the statue...
Student and travel blogger Siobhan Downes spent a semester in Japan's most unconventional city, Osaka.
Japanese troops are airlifting supplies to thousands of people cut off by floods on the country's southern island of Kyushu.
Last year's nuclear disaster in Japan was "clearly man-made," an independent investigation commission said as it harshly criticized the government and plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO).
Japan ended two months without nuclear power today when the No. 3 unit at Kansai Electric Power Co's Ohi plant became the first reactor to resume supplying electricity to the grid since a nationwide safety shutdown after the Fukushima disaster.
A powerful rainstorm is battering Japan, paralyzing traffic and leaving thousands of homes without electricity.
A newly formed investigative panel on Japan's nuclear disaster will use its subpoena powers wisely and cut deeper into the accident than the government's probe, the leader of the independent commission says.
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda is reshuffling his Cabinet in a bid to win more cooperation from the opposition to raise the sales tax and rein in the country's bulging fiscal deficit.
Officials at the tsunami-damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant have detected a radioactive gas associated with fission that could indicate a problem at one of its reactors.
Anti-nuclear protesters took to the streets of Tokyo and other cities on Sunday to mark six months since the March earthquake and tsunami and vent their anger at the government's handling of the nuclear crisis set off by meltdowns at the Fukushima power plant.
A tsunami warning was issued after a magnitude-6.7 earthquake rattled northeast Japan morning, but has since been lifted.
A $272-million Hello Kitty theme park celebrating the cute cartoon cat with a cult-like following will open in China in 2014.
The spectre of a worsening nuclear accident hangs over one of Tokyo's favourite holiday destinations. Peter Dowden, who worked in the Fukushima tourism industry in the late 1990s, describes the alpine thermal wonderland that is at stake.
Dunedin expat Mike Harris lives in the town of Minakami, in Gunma prefecture, where he runs a canyoning business: thrill seekers can shoot rapids in wetsuits and helmets or by raft or kayak, as well as abseil the local crags
Japan's formal announcement today that it will halt its Antarctic whaling mission for the rest of the season may be an indication that whaling in the Antarctic is coming to an end, says a Green Party MP.
About 600 people are returning home after seeking shelter overnight as a volcano in southern Japan spewed ash and smoke over nearby towns.
A Japanese man was arrested this morning after a knife attack that injured 13 people, mostly junior and high school students, in a city northeast of Tokyo.
New Zealand golfers Josh Carmichael and Richard Lee have made solid starts in the final qualifying school event for next year's Japan Golf Tour.