Japan

Beijing: The Chinese military on Sunday urged the Philippines to immediately stop provoking incidents and further escalating tensions in the South China Sea, state media reported.This comes amid the Philippines, United States and Japan…

Tokyo: Japan's Meteorological Agency issued a tsunami advisory for Iwate Prefecture after a magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck off the coast on Sunday, registering a 4 on the country's seismic intensity scale, the Japan Times reported.The…

Seoul: North Korea has fired a ballistic missile towards the sea off its east coast, South Korea and Japan both said on Friday.South Korean military said that Pyongyang had fired at least one unidentified ballistic missile toward the…

Tokyo: An earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale struck eastern Hokkaido in northern Japan today.According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, the quake occurred southeast of the Nemuro Peninsula at a depth of approximately 40…

New-Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday congratulated Sanae Takaichi on her election as Japan's prime minister and said he looked forward to working closely to further strengthen the strategic partnership between the two nations.…

Tokyo: Japan's Liberal Democratic Party President Sanae Takaichi was elected Prime Minister by parliament on Tuesday, to become the country's first woman leader.Takaichi avoided a runoff with a victory in a first round of voting in the…

Tokyo: Japan's former prime minister Tomiichi Murayama, famous for making a statement apologising over World War II, died on Friday aged 101.The Socialist Party PM led a coalition government with longtime rival the Liberal Democratic…

Tokyo: Former internal affairs minister Sanae Takaichi won the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's presidential election on Saturday, as reported by Kyodo News.According to Kyodo News, Takaichi defeated farm minister Shinjiro Koizumi in a…

Tokyo: Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru, who took office last October, announced his resignation on Sunday as president of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), just weeks after its ruling coalition suffered a historic defeat in a July…

Japan: Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru on Sunday decided to step down from the post over a month after his party was hit with a major electoral setback in the Japanese Parliament, NHK World reported.NHK World was the first to…