The Latest Breaking News from Japan

A huge grinning Totoro and other whimsical exhibits welcomed visitors to Japan's new Ghibli theme park as three of its five sections opened to the public on Tuesday. The attraction in central Japan has been long awaited by fans of Studio Ghibli's beloved animations, from "Howl's Moving Castle" to the…

Former Japanese premier Taro Aso, now vice president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, will travel to South Korea on Wednesday for a potential meeting with President Yoon Suk-yeol, Japan's Sankei newspaper reported on Tuesday.

The duo are key players at club level for boss Ange Postecoglou, but they won't be on the plane to Qatar later this month - but Maeda HAS made the cut. He played a key role in qualifying for the finals.

CELTIC duo Kyogo and Reo Hatate will not be heading to the World Cup this winter.

Parkhead forward Daizen Maeda did make the cut but there was surprise surprise over decisions made by Hajime Moriyasu

They range from science fiction epics to high-school romance and are selling faster than publishers can print them. But what has driven this new appetite for Japanese comics?

Japanese Dana White's Contender Series signee is set to make his UFC debut in February.

One of the top priorities that the Asean leaders have to vet and approve at the Asean-related summit on Nov 11 is the plan to operationalise the Asean Outlook on the Indo-Pacific (AOIP).

High inflation, rising interest rates, falling currencies and volatile energy prices, together with an economic slowdown and post-pandemic budget woes, may increase pressure on the Asean+3 -- the 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, together with China, Japan and South Korea -- to scale back efforts to…

'PaRappa the Rapper' is an unabashedly weird and adorable music game that paved the way for more offbeat, genre-defying Japanese games to reach overseas audiences.

Now the subject of a documentary, the Japanese musician persevered with his never-ending world tour while undergoing 40 surgeries for cancer in three years. ‘Music is healing,’ he says