The Latest Breaking News from Tokyo

TOKYO - Nobel-winning Japanese novelist Kenzaburo Oe, a leading liberal voice who defended the disenfranchised and challenged the conformity of modern society, has died aged 88.

World Baseball Classic quarterfinals begin this week, hosted in Miami and Tokyo.

Kim Jong-Un's sister previously threatened to make the "Pacific our firing range" as Pyongyang launched two short-range ballistic missiles towards Japan, prompting Tokyo to request an emergency meeting of the UN security council

SEOUL: South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol will visit Japan next week, his office said on Thursday, as the two neighbours try to ease diplomatic strains over Japan’s wartime atrocities during its 35-year colonial rule.

Steve Mallia weighed in at 110 kilos when his doctor told him he was headed for an early grave. Fourteen years later, he's received his Six Star Finisher medal.

WASHINGTON -- The United States has approached Japan and South Korea to create a new consultative body on nuclear deterrence to enhance information sharing and other matters, according to sources.

Olympic Federation of Ireland's chief executive Peter Sherrard said the "challenge is whether they are going to have the people required to run the tournament"

Following the recent arrest of a Tokyo-based nonprofit organization's director on multiple charges of unauthorized mediation of overseas organ transplants, the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry has said it will survey about 200 medical institutions across the nation to investigate the actual state of transplants abroad.

TOKYO: The inaugural launch of Japan’s next-generation rocket was aborted shortly after takeoff as launch controllers ordered it to self-destruct and plunge into the ocean, dealing a blow to the country’s aspirations to take on Elon Musk’s SpaceX.