Japan news headlines

About 30 minutes after entering the water, the woman realised she was drifting and was unable to return to the beach.

Operations at Hawaii's Hilo International Airport were halted when security screeners spotted two items that looked like grenades in a bag belonging to a man from Japan.

The Perth grandmother spends 23 hours a day in a prison cell in Tokyo and is yet to face trial. Prison rules stop her daughter from visiting.

The 38-year-old man is set to be the first Japanese national to be caned in the city state.

Donna Nelson recently had her trial unexpected postponed after already spending 18 months in a Japanese prison on drug smuggling charges that she denies.

Japanese prosecutors have charged a US Air Force member with allegedly kidnapping and raping an underage girl just before Christmas last year, Okinawa police confirmed to CNN on Wednesday.

The shock development comes just two days before the trial of Donna Nelson, who has already spent 18 months in a Japanese prison on drug smuggling charges that she denies, was scheduled to begin.

Blink and you'll miss it, because it's over and done in less than half a second.

A nuclear-powered US aircraft carrier arrived in South Korea for a three-way exercise involving Japan as they step up military training to cope with North Korean threats, which have escalated following a security pact with Russia.

Cases of a dangerous and highly fatal bacterial infection have reached record levels in Japan, official figures show, with experts so far unable to pinpoint the reason for the rise.

It collected samples that could provide insights into the less-explored far side of the moon.

Wearing a toy whale hat, whale tie and a whale motif shirt, Hideki Tokoro spends much of his days thinking about the world's largest mammals. But he doesn't want to protect them. He wants to hunt them.

Fujikawaguchiko, a popular spot to view and photograph the iconic mountain, put up the screen last Tuesday, but the next day officials discovered a hole in it.

The meat is between $2 to $5 more expensive in Australia, despite a shorter travel to get on the shelf.

Foreign experts believe North Korea's recent series of artillery and short-range missile tests were meant to examine or advertise the weapons it was planning to sell to Russia.

More than 100,000 loaves have been removed from shelves in Japan after a food company said parts of "a small animal" found its way into two packets.

The number of vacant houses in Japan has surged to a record high of nine million – more than the entire populations of Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide combined.

Last year, Chani was working 10-hours days as a Japanese teacher in a Brisbane high school. Now her life could not be more different.

A brown bear has been filmed charging at a small truck in Japan and cracking the windscreen.

One crew member who had been recovered from the waters was later pronounced dead, while rescuers searched for seven others who were still missing.

The three nations will launch a new air defence strategy in the Indo Pacific, US President Joe Biden announced.

But Prime Minister Anthony Albanese stressed the alliance won't be extended to become JAUKUS.

The quake, which also injured hundreds, was centred off the coast of rural, mountainous Hualien County, where some buildings leaned at severe angles, their ground floors crushed.

Officials were unable to tell what was nuclear waste, and what was simply twisted metal.

The ship was completely overturned by the time rescuers arrived at the scene

One worker posed as a tiger while others used a net and simulated tranquillisers to capture the escapee.

CCTV footage at the chemical factory showed the cat slinking through a loading dock and then scampering out the main gate

Two New Zealanders have died in an avalanche in Mt Yotei, Japan.

Toriyama died March 1 of a blood clot in his brain, Bird Studio said in a statement.

It comes as human traffic jams, littering and inappropriateness plague the site.

The 70-year-old, who was dying of stomach cancer, told police wanted to die using his real name, Satoshi Kirishima, instead of his alias.

The moon is littered with wreckage from failed landings over the years.

Japan’s economy is now the world’s fourth-largest after it contracted in the last quarter of 2023 and fell behind Germany.

Global military spending in 2023 climbed by 9 per cent to reach $US2.2 trillion, according to UK-based think tank.

There is no way to free the orcas, who are bobbing up and down and struggling to breathe.

Japan became the fifth country in history to reach the moon when its spacecraft landed on the lunar surface early Saturday, officials said

North Korea said Friday it had tested a purported underwater nuclear attack drone in response to a combined naval exercise between South Korea and the United States and Japan this week.

The incident happened on a domestic flight carrying 65 people.

The woman survived for more than five days after the 7.6 magnitude quake.

The family filmed inside the smokey cabin as the plane went up in flames before their lucky escape from the blazing aircraft.

The coast guard plane is seen taxiing on the runway before stopping for about 40 seconds before the deadly collision.

Eight Australians on-board a plane with collided with a Japanese Coast Guard aircraft are "safe", "accounted for" and "well".

Japan has been rocked by a series of powerful earthquakes, bringing down buildings and sparking tsunami warnings.The death toll continues to rise with fears many people are trapped.

Japanese police have arrested a woman who wielded a knife and injured four passengers inside a train that stopped at Tokyo's electronic town of Akihabara.

Bitter cold and heavy rain are expected to hamper efforts to find any survivors of the earthquake tragedy.

A four-minute transcript of communication between traffic control and two aircraft has shed light on what went wrong.

The damage was so great that it could not immediately be assessed. Japanese media reports said tens of thousands of homes were destroyed.

Officials have warned that more quakes could lie ahead.

Officials have warned people in some areas on Tuesday to stay away from their homes because of a risk of more strong quakes.

Meant to arrive on doorsteps frozen, 807 strawberry frill shortcakes costing $54 were delivered to customers in various states of disrepair.