The death toll from a devastating typhoon in northern Japan rose to 14, officials said on Friday, as another powerful storm approached the country's south.
A Japanese gunman accused of shooting dead a construction worker and wounding three others was taken into custody on Wednesday following a long and tense standoff with police, news reports said.
Surging flood water brought by a powerful typhoon left nine people dead in an elderly care home in Japan, officials said Wednesday.
A woman has been killed after a truck carrying airbag parts made by Japan's troubled Takata exploded in a massive fireball on a US highway, the firm confirmed Tuesday.
A man who allegedly shot dead a construction worker and wounded three at their office in Japan is on the run, police said Monday, marking a rare incident of gun violence in the country.
Japan's new passenger jet on Sunday aborted a test flight to the United States for the second time in two days because of an air conditioning defect, its maker said.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told African leaders on Saturday that his country will commit $30 billion in public and private support for infrastructure development, education and healthcare expansion in the continent.
A Japanese truck driver playing Pokemon Go while driving hit two pedestrians, killing one and injuring the other, in Japan's first death related to the Nintendo Co craze.
A driver who was allegedly playing Pokemon Go when he hit and killed a woman in Japan has been arrested, police said on Wednesday.
North Korea fired a submarine-launched missile on Wednesday that flew about 500 km (311 miles) towards Japan, a show of improving technological capability for the isolated country ...
A Japanese man has been arrested on suspicion of stabbing his 12-year-old son to death because he was not studying enough for an upcoming examination, local media reported on Tuesday.
A strong typhoon dumped heavy rain that caused flooding on Japan's northern island of Hokkaido on Tuesday after killing one person near Tokyo and injuring dozens.
