A giant sinkhole appeared in the middle of a busy Japanese city on Tuesday, swallowing part of a five-lane street near the main railway station.
A Tokyo panel on Thursday urged changes to three venues for the 2020 Olympics in the face of ballooning costs but organisers say such adjustments may prove difficult to instigate in time for the Games.
Uber Technologies is making an aggressive drive into takeaway meal deliveries, with the US firm gearing up with a big staff recruitment campaign to enter at least 22 more countries.
A Japanese bullet train was forced to make an emergency stop on Monday after a snake was found slithering between the seats, local media reported.
Rio de Janeiro returned to the cold reality of Brazil's political crisis and recession on Monday after bringing a carnivalesque curtain down on its Olympics festival and passing the torch to Tokyo.
A safari park employee in Japan died on Tuesday after being attacked by a bear which had somehow climbed into her car, local officials and police said.
A Hawaiian Airlines flight made an emergency landing in Tokyo, its second such incident in Japan this month, an official said on Thursday.
A knife-wielding man stabbed and killed 19 people as they slept at a facility for the disabled in a town near Tokyo early on Tuesday, a senior government official said, Japan's worst mass killing in decades.
Japanese technology firm DeNA Co. showcased its first self-driving bus in Tokyo on Thursday, unveiling a vehicle that runs on electricity and can carry 12 passengers.
An earthquake shook buildings in the Japanese capital Tokyo and other areas on Monday but no damage or injuries were immediately reported.
Japan vowed to cooperate with a French probe into $2mn allegedly paid to help Tokyo secure the 2020 Olympics, as the son of ex-world athletics chief Lamine Diack denied receiving the money.
Tokyo 2020 Olympic organisers on Monday announced a new logo nearly eight months after the original choice was scrapped over a plagiarism scandal, but faced immediate criticism ...
