The Latest Breaking News from Tokyo

WASHINGTON -- Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Friday and confirmed that Tokyo and Washington had not changed their basic position on Taiwan, where China is increasing military pressure.

The former Tokyo 2020 organizing committee executive board member under investigation in a bribery probe allegedly also accepted a separate payment of 250 million yen from entities related to the same sponsor, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned.

As Japan reels from its largest-ever COVID-19 surge, Tokyo and Osaka prefectures are trying to ease pressure on clinics inundated with people seeking coronavirus testing and treatment.

Former PM Scott Morrison has defended his government's handling of China, telling a summit in Japan he sought to "resist, not provoke the PRC".

Japan urged Russia to exclude areas around disputed northern islands from military drills Moscow is planning to conduct in the country's Far East from late August, a Japanese government spokesperson said on Thursday.Japan lays claim to the Russian-held southern Kuril islands that Tokyo calls the Northern Territories, a territorial row…

The daily number of COVID-19 cases in Tokyo is set to exceed 40,000 on Thursday, a record high, broadcaster FNN reported citing government sources.

When Kaputin broke her ankle demonstrating a jump for kids in PNG, she was told she wouldn't walk for a year. Eighteen months later, she had qualified for the Tokyo Olympics, and is now PNG's flag-bearer for the Commonwealth Games.

The Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office's special investigative squad on Wednesday morning searched the Tokyo home of Hironori Aoki, the former chairman of Aoki Holdings Inc., in connection with a case in which Haruyuki Takahashi, a former executive board member of the Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic…

Fourteen years have passed since an indiscriminate attack in Tokyo's Akihabara district left seven people dead and 10 injured.