Japan lowered its price cap on Russian crude oil to $47.60 per barrel from $60, effective on Friday, to punish Moscow for its ...

A United Airlines Boeing 737-800 flying from Tokyo to Cebu in the Philippines made an emergency landing Friday after an ...

Japanese Emperor Naruhito, accompanied by his wife and daughter, have paid their respects to atomic bombing victims in ...

Japanese Emperor Naruhito, accompanied by his wife and daughter, have paid their respects to atomic bombing victims in ...

United Airlines said on Friday that two people had sustained minor injuries after a flight heading from Tokyo to Cebu in the ...

The number of people in Japan aged 100 or older has risen to a record high of nearly 100,000, its government has announced.

Dozens of relatives of former Dutch prisoners of war who suffered abuse and starvation during their captivity in one of Japan ...

Its oldest person is 114-year-old Shigeko Kagawa in the Nara region near Kyoto. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

Ahead of the April 2026 introduction of a new system for bicycle traffic violations in Japan -- where relatively minor ...

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Japan is also immediately lowering the G7-imposed price cap on Russian seaborne crude from $60 to $47.60 per barrel, ...

On 12 September, Japan imposed sanctions on 47 Russian and 3 Belarusian companies and organisations, alongside a number of ...