The Latest Breaking News from Japan

With plentiful flights and cheaper prices than the most popular destination Japan, tourism exchanges between Thailand and Taiwan as well as Hong Kong could emerge stronger during the high season.

Groundbreaking flat jockey on her constantly changing goals and why she is determined to make a name for herself racing in Japan

Russia said it had protested to the Japanese embassy on Wednesday over joint Japan-U.S. military exercises this week in which it said HIMARS rocket systems were fired close to Russia's borders.

Covid-19 vaccines and boosters are losing their importance for world travelers. There are now more countries and territories—118, according to Kayak.com data—that welcome any US traveler without restrictions. Of the 109 destinations that still require testing, quarantines, or both for unvaccinated travelers, 17 don’t allow US tourism anyway.

Check out some of the best photos from the week in Japan.

Aston Martin is enjoying a clear uplift in form off the back of a steady stream of Formula 1 updates that have given it fresh hope of overhauling Alfa Romeo.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said it transmitted a self-destruct signal to the Epsilon-6 solid-fuel rocket soon after it was launched on Wednesday morning from Uchinoura Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture.

Aston Martin is enjoying a clear uplift in form off the back of a steady stream of Formula 1 updates that have given it fresh hope of overhauling Alfa Romeo.

A court in military-ruled Myanmar has convicted a Japanese journalist of violating immigration law, adding three years to the seven-year prison sentence he was handed last week for filming an anti-government protest

The easing of COVID-19 border control measures on Tuesday has raised hopes for a return to the old bustle of tourist sites across Japan.

The failure of the Epsilon-6 rocket launch is Japan’s first in nearly 20 years.