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British army to test Japanese Type 19 guns with Vulcano shells

China has executed a man for fatally stabbing a 10-year-old Japanese boy last September, the Japanese embassy in China has told the BBC.

89-year-old Japanese man Iwao Hakamada, who spent nearly half a century on death row before being acquitted, has been awarded $1.45 million in compensation — a record amount.

The latest race for companies is to find new forms of clean energy to make the leap in industry.

A Japanese finance ministry employee on a night out with colleagues lost documents containing the personal data of 187 people suspected of drug smuggling, local media say.

Kanye West has lost a $20 million deal to play in Japan as a result of his controversial stunt at the Grammys, according to sources in Tokyo.

Japan on Wednesday said it will freeze voluntary funding for a United Nations’ women’s rights panel that called for an end to the country’s male-only imperial succession rule.

The rooms are filled with elderly residents, their hands wrinkled and backs bent. They shuffle slowly down the corridors, some using walkers. Workers help them bathe, eat, walk and take their medication.

Firefly Aerospace from the US and the Japanese firm ispace shared the ride with SpaceX from the Kennedy Space Centre to save money.

New fighter jets set to replace the RAF’s Typhoons have been seen for the first time.

Japanese police say 22-year-old woman arrested as witness describes panic after attacker ‘all of a sudden’ began swinging hammer in classroom.

US authorities charged Takeshi Ebisawa with conspiring to traffic nuclear materials from Myanmar for expected use by Iran in nuclear weapons.

Onodera Group paid second highest price ever at prestigious annual new year auction at Tokyo’s main fish market.

Itooka was born in 1908 in Osaka and and had four children along with five grandchildren. Japan has over 95,000 people aged 100 or older.

Journalists have published data obtained from 29 secret Russian military files.

Hidakanyo receives accolade for campaign to rid world of nuclear weapons by ‘describing the indescribable’

Unexpected blast at Miyazaki airport makes crater in taxiway and leads to grounding of 80 flights but no injuries

The world’s longest-serving death row inmate has been acquitted over 50 years after his sentencing.

Millions of people have been ordered to leave their homes after Typhoon Shanshan hit Japan.

Concerns have been raised after the world’s largest economy reported much lower-than-expected job creation in July.

Watson, founder of Sea Shepherd and co-founder of Greenpeace, has been arrested on an international warrant and is facing charges including accomplice to assault and ship trespass

Deal for undisclosed sum secures Bristol-based company’s future after ‘material uncertainty’ in 2023

Iwao Hakamada, 88, who spent longer than anyone in the world awaiting execution, awaits murder retrial verdict