投稿者: Justin McCurry in Tokyo and agencies
Results mean coalition of recently installed PM has supermajority in lower house of parliamentJapan’s conservative governing coalition has dramatically strengthened its grip on power after a landslide victory in Sunday’s elections in what will be seen …
South Korea has experienced a record-breaking streak of ‘tropical nights’, while Japan saw its hottest day on record on ThursdayAuthorities in Japan and South Korea have urged people to take precautions to prevent heatstroke, as the region reels from r…
Multinational team monitoring sanctions says 20,000 container loads of missiles, artillery, rocket launchers and other munitions illegally supplied Russian forces have used North Korean weapons to intensify missile attacks against critical civilian inf…
South Korea said the destroyer was lying sideways in the water after ceremony to launch the new 5,000-tonne shipA ceremony to welcome a new addition to North Korea’s naval fleet has ended in embarrassment following a major accident during the ship’s la…
More people were killed in the 1945 attack than the atomic bombing of Nagasaki a few months later, but there is no national memorial, accurate death toll or compensation for survivorsNot even the passage of eight decades has dimmed Shizuko Nishio’s mem…
Impeached president appears in constitutional court following last month’s short-lived martial law orderSouth Korea’s impeached president Yoon Suk Yeol has denied ordering troops to “drag out” lawmakers from the country’s parliament to prevent them fro…
Yoon Suk Yeol subjected to travel ban after his party’s boycott of impeachment vote condemned by oppositionSouth Korea’s president, Yoon Suk Yeol, has been banned from leaving the country, as opposition politicians accused his party of staging a “secon…
Test of apparent ICBM theoretically capable of striking US mainland comes amid warnings over North Korean troops in UkraineNorth Korea has test launched a long-range missile theoretically capable of striking the US mainland in another display of defian…
Defence minister says ‘strong protest’ lodged with Moscow amid growing concerns about Russian and Chinese military cooperation in the regionJapan said its fighter jets used flares for the first time to warn a Russian reconnaissance aircraft to leave it…
The Japan Meteorological Agency has issued its first-ever warning of the risk of a huge earthquake along the Pacific coastJapan’s prime minister, Fumio Kishida, has cancelled a visit to central Asia this weekend after experts warned that the risk of a …
State department warns such a move could destabilise the peninsula, as South Korea considers arming UkraineVladimir Putin’s suggestion that Russia could supply weapons to North Korea is “incredibly concerning”, a senior US official has said, days after…
Russian president makes first visit to country in 24 years as anti-west relationship deepensRussia and North Korea: what can they do for each other?Vladimir Putin has arrived in North Korea for a summit with Kim Jong-un, amid US warnings against any ag…
Oji Holdings said it would stop making children’s nappies in September amid a sharp decline in demand. Japan has a rapidly ageing societyA nappy manufacturer in Japan is to stop making the products for babies and instead raise production of adult diape…
Almost 12,000 doctors have walked out over planned changes, as the country’s health ministry denies services have descended into chaosSouth Korea’s government has started taking steps to suspend the medical licences of thousands of striking doctors, as…
The walkout by 8,400 doctors is in protest at government plans to raise the number of trainee medicsSouth Korea has raised its public health alert to “severe” for the first time, after thousands of doctors went on strike to protest against government r…