The Latest Breaking News from Japan

Without funding from Japan, many of Australia’s gas projects wouldn’t have gone ahead. Massive public loans from Japanese taxpayers are propping up Australia’s now-enormous fossil gas industry. Japan is also becoming a major gas trader and today exports more gas to other countries than it imports from Australia.

A developer in Japan just built a 10-storey apartment block in Tokyo but then decided to tear it down. What is going on?

Iceland’s government says it has issued a license to the North Atlantic nation’s last fin whaling company to hunt and kill 128 fin whales this year

The 31-year-old forward recently ended a seven-year stint with Glasgow Warriors.

Most people love a Honda Monkey, even if they don't love other bikes. The extremely limited-edition, Japan-only Baja Africa body kit kicks that love up higher.

Smiths Marcus and Fin will go head to head to start in Japan and New Zealand with George Ford and Owen Farrell both absent

Steve Borthwick has named some of English rugby’s top young talents in his squad

I’m just a treat girl, living in a treat world.

A House subcommittee is holding a hearing on the troubled safety record of the Osprey aircraft and whether the program has adequate Pentagon oversight

Down a Tokyo street lined with bright signs, up narrow stairs and behind a windowless door is a "snack bar" long cherished by regulars but hidden from tourists -- until now.

The U.S. is 100% reliant on imports for 12 minerals that are key to the production of semiconductors and other high-tech products.