The fishing boat tried to flee when ordered to stop for an inspection inside Japan's territorial waters, authorities say.

(Corrects to change broken story links in text) By Rocky Swift TOKYO, Feb 12 (Reuters) - The Nikkei share average broke past ...

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By Tom Westbrook and Sophie Kiderlin SINGAPORE, Feb 12 (Reuters) - A resurgent yen pushed towards its biggest weekly gain in ...

Japanese authorities say they have captured a Chinese fishing boat and its captain. The ship, which was in Japan's exclusive economic zone off the southwestern prefecture of Nagasaki, reportedly ...

Japan’s conservative prime minister Sanae Takaichi has won a landslide victory after she gambled on a high-stakes snap ...

NATO launches the mission in response to Russian and Chinese ambitions in the high North, and to President Trump’s threat of ...

The earthquake and resulting tsunami decimated the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant along the coast. The massive ecological ...

North Korea on Wednesday denounced Japan's new defense equipment agreement with Canada, accusing Prime Minister Sanae ...

Feb 12 (Reuters) - Japan has agreed with the United States to accelerate talks on the first batch of deals under Japan's $550 ...

Can uniting tech, finance, manufacturing and academia help Japan turn deep science into a global quantum advantage?