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Japan's newly elected Prime Minister took office on Tuesday and formed a cabinet made up of numerous security and defence experts in line with his calls to strengthen regional military alliances. The majority of cabinet members are relative unknowns, marking a break from a string of corruption scandals that have hit the governing party.

At least four people were reportedly left injured after knife attack at a train station in Tokyo

Japan coast guard plane collides with Japan Airlines passenger plane

Flight JL516 had been travelling to Haneda Airport from Chitose, Hokkaido.

One day after Japan was hit by a devastating 7.5 magnitude earthquake on New Year’s Day, officials have issued a dire new warning.

Tsunami waves over a metre high hit Japan on Monday after a huge earthquake that damaged homes, set off a major fire, closed highways and prompted authorities to urge people to run to higher ground.

Electronics firm taken private in £11bn deal by consortium led by Japan Industrial Partners

.Wage and price inflation is coinciding with an exciting corporate renewal.

As political leaders in urban areas around the developed world grapple with how best to revive their cities in the aftermath of the pandemic, Tokyo offers a template.

Nagi’s defiance of those trends stems in part from having faced its own existential crossroads two decades ago, Mayor Masachika Oku said. 

Minister Fumio Kishida was evacuated unharmed from the scene of a campaign speech Saturday after a blast sounded and white smoke filled the air.

All this has delighted foreign-policy types in America

Tokyo reportedly seeks to deploy upgraded long-range cruise missiles to the southern Nansei Islands

Japan has executed a 39-year-old man who killed seven people in Tokyo in 2008 during a stabbing rampage.

Japanese police have admitted there were flaws in the security for former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was shot dead in the southern city of Nara on Friday.

A steady stream of mourners on Saturday visited the scene of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's assassination in the western city of Nara, a rare act of political violence that has shocked the nation.