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4 October 2018, 18:00 PM
Japan: SoftBank deleted 10.3 million emails in error
SoftBank Corp. in Japan has mistakenly deleted about 10.3 million emails that were supposed to be sent to about 4.36 million users of its mobile phones, the carrier announces.
23 September 2018, 11:21 AM
Japan's Kansai airport to reopen partially after typhoon damage
Japan's Kansai airport will reopen partially, the government says, after a massive typhoon flooded parts of the transport hub and swept a tanker onto the only bridge connecting it to the mainland.
6 September 2018, 07:01 AM
6 dead as strongest typhoon in quarter century batters Japan
Japan issues evacuation advisories for more than a million people and cancel hundreds of flights as Typhoon Jebi sliced across the west, killing at least six people.
4 September 2018, 08:21 AM
Record heat broils Japan, prompting warnings
Japanese officials issue new warnings as a deadly heatwave blankets the country, producing record high temperatures in Tokyo just two years before the city hosts the 2020 Summer Olympics.
23 July 2018, 09:01 AM
Heatwave kills 14 in Japan
An intense heatwave kills at least 14 people over a three-day long weekend in Japan, media reports, and high temperatures hamper the recovery in flood-hit areas where more than 200 people died last week.
17 July 2018, 11:28 AM
38 killed, at least 50 missing as torrential rain pounds Japan
At least 50 people are missing and four in critical condition as torrential rain that has killed 38 people pounds western and central Japan, public broadcaster NHK says, with more than 1.6 million evacuated from their homes.
7 July 2018, 04:48 AM
Japan boss blasts World Cup haters, eyes new coach
Japan's football chief take aim at critics of the Blue Samurai after the team's World Cup return and confirms he is on the lookout for a new coach.
5 July 2018, 10:22 AM
Agony for Japan
Japan coach Akira Nishino says his players were lost for words after their crushing 3-2 defeat by Belgium on Monday in the World Cup last 16.
2 July 2018, 22:39 PM
Rocket explodes seconds after liftoff in Japan
A rocket developed by a maverick Japanese entrepreneur and convicted fraudster explodes shortly after liftoff, in a major blow to his bid to send Japan's first privately backed rocket into space.
2 July 2018, 05:26 AM
Senegal, Japan play out 2-2 thriller
Japan twice come from behind to draw 2-2 with Senegal in their World Cup Group H encounter on Sunday.
24 June 2018, 16:55 PM
Tokyo hopes ‘solar road’ will lead to greener power
The Tokyo metropolitan government intends to take the initiative in introducing the new technologies of “solar roads” that collect energy from the sun via solar panels installed beneath the surface of roads and “power-generating floors” that generate electricity by utilizing the vibrations created by people walking, according to sources.
10 June 2018, 06:06 AM
Knife attack on Japan bullet train leaves 1 dead
A knife attack on a Japanese bullet express train near Tokyo left one passenger dead and two others injured, police say, as they arrested a suspect who was on top of a man lying unconscious.
10 June 2018, 05:40 AM
Unicef gets $15.7m fund for Rohingya children, women in Cox’s Bazar
The United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) has scaled up humanitarian assistance and life-saving interventions for the Rohingya children and women along with the vulnerable host population in Cox's Bazar with US$15.7 million funding received from the government of Japan.
8 May 2018, 06:56 AM
Obama: NKorea 'real threat', urges co-operation
North Korea poses a "real threat" whose solution will require international co-operation, former US President Barack Obama says on a visit to Japan.
25 March 2018, 07:21 AM
Tokyo to build world’s tallest timber tower
Japanese company Sumitomo Forestry is set to build the world's tallest wooden skyscraper to mark its 350th anniversary in 2041.
20 February 2018, 07:29 AM
Japanese island named top rising destination 2018: TripAdvisor
Savvy, curious travelers who understand that Japan is more than just Tokyo have had Ishigaki, Japan on their travel radar, as the island has emerged the top trending spot in the 2018 edition of TripAdvisor's annual Travelers' Choice Destinations on the Rise ranking.
10 January 2018, 11:57 AM
Infrastructure Projects in Bangladesh: Tokyo to invest under new arrangement
Japan is going to invest in Bangladesh's infrastructure projects under a new arrangement in which its companies will work under the government-to-government system without participating in any bidding.
10 December 2017, 18:00 PM
Chief priest, 2 others dead in Tokyo shrine stabbings
The head priest of a prominent shrine in Tokyo is ambushed and killed with a samurai sword, apparently by her brother, who then took his own life, police say.
8 December 2017, 06:39 AM
Abe eyes fresh term as Japan votes under NKorea threats
Millions of Japanese brave typhoon conditions for a snap election likely to hand Prime Minister Shinzo Abe a fresh mandate to revive the world's third-largest economy and press his hardline stance on North Korea.
22 October 2017, 04:13 AM