Japan

As the Post Office Inquiry continues to hear testimony, more and more details are coming to light about who knew what when. 

Japan’s ill-fated Olympic games have suffered another blow after Japanese spectators were banned from events in and around Tokyo. 

Plans to build two new nuclear power stations in the UK are being abandoned – after the Japanese giant Hitachi pulled out of the scheme.Plans to build two new nuclear power stations in the UK are being abandoned – after the Japanese giant Hitachi pulled out of the scheme.

Up to 76 people are feared to have died and scores are missing amid unprecedented floods in western Japan. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says rescue efforts are a “race against time”.

President Trump declared “all options” were on the table after North Korea fired a missile designed to carry a nuclear payload over Japan

North Korea has launched a ballistic missile off its eastern coast – in an apparent challenge to President Trump. News of the test launch came as Mr Trump was hosting Japan’s prime minister Shinzo Abe.

Japan remembers the thousands who were killed in an earthquake and tsunami five years ago that led to the world’s worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.

Tens of thousands gathered for peace ceremonies in Hiroshima amid fears that 70 years later Japan is abandoning its pacifist constitution.

More than 130 residents on a remote Japanese island are evacuated and flights diverted after a volcano suddenly erupts on Friday morning.

The latest video of 21 Egyptians being beheaded in Libya is part of Islamic State’s tactic to gain funding and spread fear through the threat of the knife.

Jordan says it is still ready to do a prisoner swap with IS militants for its captured pilot, even after a video was released purporting to show the killing of Japanese journalist Kenji Goto.

The latest deadline set by IS regarding the fate of a Japanese journalist and Jordanian pilot passes, but there is no news about either of them.

The wife of the Japanese journalist being held hostage by the Islamic State group releases her first plea to the governments of Japan and Jordan as a deadline for his release approaches.

Jordan is willing to hand over an Iraqi woman jailed for her role in a 2005 suicide bomb attack if a Jordanian pilot captured by Islamic State is released, a government spokesperson says.

Japan says it is still trying to secure the release of two Japanese hostages held by Islamic State group militants after a deadline to pay ransom for their release passed.