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Japan will continue its support to Bangladesh in its bilateral efforts to repatriate Rohingyas to Myanmar, said visiting Japanese State Minister for Foreign Affairs Toshiko Abe today. He made the assurance during official talks with Bangladesh...

A volcano erupted on a small island in southern Japan on Thursday, the country’s meteorological agency said, spewing ash and smoke into the air over the sparsely-inhabited area. Public broadcaster NHK said there were no reports...

Japan on Monday started levying a 1,000 yen ($9.22) departure tax on each person leaving the country, a measure aimed at raising funds to further boost tourism. The International Tourist Tax will cover everyone regardless of...

Japan is considering pulling out of the International Whaling Commission (IWC), officials told AFP on Thursday, as Tokyo reportedly gears up to resume commercial whaling activity next year. Such a move would spark international criticism against...

Japan‘s economy shrank in the third quarter as natural disasters hit spending and disrupted exports. The economy contracted by an annualized 1.2% between July and September, preliminary figures showed, reports BBC. A devastating earthquake and typhoon...

Japan’s government on Monday told U.S. technology firm Facebook Inc to better protect its users’ personal data following lapses this year affecting tens of millions of people globally. The government asked the world’s largest social media...

Two people have been killed in a powerful typhoon that battered Japan over the weekend, officials said Monday, as the storm’s aftermath brought travel chaos to Tokyo’s morning commute. By Monday morning, Typhoon Trami had cleared...

A powerful typhoon lashed Japan’s mainland on Sunday after injuring dozens on outlying islands, bringing transport grinding to a halt and triggering warnings of fierce winds, torrential rain, landslides and floods. Typhoon Trami has already snarled...

Digital currency worth around 6.7 billion yen ($60 million) has been stolen in Japan following a hacking attack, a virtual exchange operator said on Thursday. Osaka-based Tech Bureau, which operates virtual currency exchange Zaif, said its server...

Record typhoons, biblical floods, heatwaves, landslides and earthquakes: this summer, Japan really has seen it all and images of the destruction caused have been beamed around the world. And while world-class infrastructure and high-tech warning systems...