A Japanese diplomat has been wounded in an attack in the Yemeni capital, Sana’a, as assaults on foreigners have intensified recently.
The US Navy has deployed sophisticated surveillance aircraft to Japan, officials said Monday, amid rising tensions over China's territorial claims in the region.
China on Friday scrambled fighter jets to monitor US and Japanese aircraft which entered its new air defense zone, state media said.
A Japanese man born to wealthy parents grew up in poverty after being given to another couple in a hospital six decades ago, while the infant who took his place went to live a privileged life of private tutoring, university and is today head of a property firm.
Two US B-52 bombers - which are capable of carrying out nuclear strikes - have flown over a diputed area in the East China Sea inside China's expanded "air defense zone" without notifying Beijing.
Representatives from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical weapons (OPCW) along with Western officials have said they are considering whether to destroy the chemical weapons in the ocean, either on a ship or by loading them onto an offshore rig.
Japan plans to review its self-imposed ban on weapons exports as it seeks to play a more active role in maintaining global peace, according to a draft of the country's new security strategy, a proposal that could unnerve China and South Korea.
Radioactivity levels in a well near a storage tank at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan have risen immensely, the plant’s operator says.
China's military has called on the United States not to support Japan over a group of disputed islands in the East China Sea.
Iran President Hassan Rouhani says Iran and Japan, as victims of chemical and nuclear weapons respectively, can be the flag bearers of the fight against weapons of mass destruction.
US-led sanctions against Iran have been eased for 10 European countries and Japan to purchase oil from the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Football Association (FA) Chairman Greg Dyke has described a summer World Cup in Qatar in 2022 as "impossible".
Tens of thousands have gathered at a peace memorial park in Hiroshima to mark the 68th anniversary of the US atomic bombing of the city, as anti-atomic sentiment runs high in Japan.
Iran's National Carpet Center has announced hand-woven Iranian carpets make up 35 percent of the global market for the product.
While the Western media portrays North Korea's nuclear weapons program as a threat to Global Security, it fails to acknowledge that the US has being threatening North Korea with a nuclear attack for more than half a century.
Japan and the United Arab Emirates have signed a nuclear cooperation agreement during a visit by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to the Persian Gulf country.
Twelve bodies being held at a morgue in Algeria's In Amenas hospital, where victims of a bloody hostage crisis were taken, are Japanese, a hospital source said on Sunday.