Japan

Steve Lee Hayes had carved letters onto a pillar of a gate of a shrine in Shibuya and was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of property damage, Tokyo Metropolitan Police said.

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol “got out his golf clubs for the first time in eight years and resumed his golf practice” as he gets ready to meet President-elect Donald Trump in person, his office told NBC News on Monday.

The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize is going to a group of survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The bomb is believed to have been dropped in Miyazaki, Japan, by the United States during World War II.

Land and Transport Ministry officials
are still determining what caused the sudden detonation of the 500-pound U.S. bomb Wednesday.

Japan has ramped up its push for companies to adopt a four-day workweek, but those efforts face steep challenges in a country famous for its workaholic culture.

A small robot entered a damaged reactor at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant on Tuesday, beginning a two-week, high-stakes mission to retrieve for the first time a tiny amount of melted fuel debris from the bottom.

The debris removal process at the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan began Tuesday, after three years of delays.

A 7.1-magnitude earthquake has raised the risk of an even larger temblor on the Nankai Trough, an underwater subduction zone.

A powerful earthquake has struck off Japan’s southern coast, triggering a tsunami advisory. The Japan Meteorological Agency says the quake on Thursday registered magnitude 7.1.

Strong earthquakes have shaken Japan’s north-central region of Ishikawa that was hit by Jan. 1 fatal quake, but there authorities say there was no danger of a tsunami.

Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida addressed a joint session of Congress on Thursday, saying that Japan stands resolutely with the United States as democracy is under attack around the world. “We are now at an inflection point that will define the next stage of human history.”

President Joe Biden shared the news with reporters gathered at the welcome ceremony for Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and first lady Yuko Kishida. 

Spring is a time for renewal and fresh starts, and Japan and the United States celebrated both with a Wednesday morning announcement: Japan has gifted 250 new cherry trees to the U.S.

These changes are the sharpest pull back in one of the most aggressive monetary easing exercises globally, as BOJ sought to reflate its economy.

Residents in one Japanese city are being warned to stay away from a “chemical cat.”

A Japan space agency official says an unmanned spacecraft that landed on the moon last month has captured and transmitted data analyzing 10 lunar rocks, a greater-than-expected achievement that could help provide clues about the origin of the moon.

Japanese officials say a pod of killer whales that was trapped in drift ice off the northern main island of Hokkaido, prompting concern from environmental groups, has apparently safely escaped.

A Japanese court sentenced a man to death after finding him guilty of murder and other crimes for carrying out a shocking arson attack on an anime studio in Kyoto, Japan, that killed 36 people.

The women work hard, sleeping only a few hours a night, as they juggle the demands of caring for their children and doing housework — all while suffering from poverty.