A Japanese minister Sunday defended a surprise visit to North Korea by one of the prime minister’s aides which Washington and Seoul said could not help efforts to forge a united front against Pyongyang.
Women on Japan’s island chain of Okinawa on Wednesday demanded an apology from an outspoken Japanese politician who suggested US troops there make use of its thriving sex industry.
Three Chinese government ships entered the waters of disputed Tokyo-controlled islands on Monday, Japan’s coast guard said, as a long-running row shows no sign of fading.
Three Chinese government ships sailed into the waters of disputed Tokyo-controlled islands on Sunday, Japan’s coastguard said.
Chinese military planes, mostly fighter jets, made more than 40 flights close to Tokyo-controlled islands at the center of a territorial dispute on a single day this week, a press report said Saturday.
A limousine carrying Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was involved in a five-car pile-up at a toll gate in Tokyo on Saturday but he escaped without any injuries, police said.
Japan has hanged two inmates convicted of murder, its fourth and fifth executions this year.
A top US military officer has told American troops based in Japan that “the best way to avoid war is to prepare for it.”
A 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck off the south coast of Japan’s main Honshu island on Sunday, the United States Geological Survey said, but no tsunami warning was issued.
The Makati City government is giving a tax relief to projects in the city that are listed under the Japan-Official Development Assistance (Japan-ODA).
A major 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck off northern Japan on Friday, seismologists said, but no tsunami warning was issued.
Around 30 earthquakes, one of them magnitude 6.2, rocked a volcanic island south of Tokyo Wednesday and another significant quake hit the northeast of the country, the national meteorological agency said.
A Korean Air flight from Seoul bound for Los Angeles was forced to make an emergency landing at Tokyo’s Narita airport on Sunday after smoke filled the cockpit, Japanese media reported.
