Japan is to deploy mobile radar units to enhance its surveillance capabilities at sea and in the air around its most remote islands, the announcement coming just days after two Chinese aircraft ...

This is the amusing moment a cat was spotted relaxing inside a shop window in Japan. Petaro, the white and orange feline, nestled inside a transparent rack beside food displays at the Omura Soba ...

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IN January of this year Admiral Nimitz established a military government over the Marshall Islands, one of the wide-flung groups of Pacific islands mandated to Japan after the last war. The official ...

Snorkel, explore caves and dine on one of Japan’s rarest wagyu in the Yaeyama Islands in Okinawa, Japan. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

There’s a new cat in town and Treacle is his name. “Big, bold and beautiful,” they call him at ARK. And though his face says, “I’m the boss around here,” his personality proves that it ...

Sapporo – The Hokkaido government has announced that memorial services at sea will be held between July 20 and Aug. 21 for former residents of the four Russian-held northwestern Pacific islands ...

Mount Fuji's climbing season commenced as the most popular trail opened Tuesday, with local authorities charging a doubled fee of 4,000 yen to ease overcrowding and the impact on the environment.

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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Monday that Japan should aim to boost its economy to 1,000 trillion yen ($7 trillion) in nominal t ...

More than 31,000 people have caught whooping cough this year in Japan, a nearly eight-fold rise from last year that has already surpassed the annual record-high number logged in 2019, data by a ...