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Formal charges have been made against the suspected killer of ex-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. The suspect was declared fit for trial after a six-month psychiatric evaluation.

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Japanese media say prosecutors have formally charged the suspect in the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with murder

President Joe Biden told Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Friday the United States was "fully, thoroughly, completely" committed to Japan's defense and praised Tokyo's security build up, saying the nations had never been closer.

Authorities to begin release of a million tonnes of water from stricken nuclear plant after treatment to remove most radioactive material

The U.S. and Japan are ready to seal an agreement to bolster U.S.-Japanese cooperation on space

Japan has revised the timing of a planned release to the sea of treated radioactive wastewater at the Fukushima nuclear plant to “around spring or summer,” indicating a delay from the initial target, after factoring in the progress of a release tunnel and the need to gain public support

The peak of China's COVID-19 wave is expected to last two to three months, and will soon swell over the vast countryside where medical resources are relatively scarce, a top Chinese epidemiologist has said.

Plan will see some 1 million tonnes of water used to cool the ruined plant’s reactors released into the Pacific.