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People in Guam and Japan move to higher ground, while highways in Hawaii busy as residents leave for safe areasTsunami warning live updatesIn the Pacific territory of Guam shortly before lunchtime on Tuesday, Sam Mabini’s phone began to ping. A tsunami…
Shallow magnitude 8.8 quake hit near Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula prompting warnings as far away as New Zealand and CaliforniaFollow it live: Japan and Pacific brace for tsunami wavesFull report: powerful quake sparks Pacific-wide warningsAn 8.8-magnit…
Aerial footage shows people gathered on a rooftop in Japan following a tsunami alert for the country’s coastal regions. A magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off Russia’s east coast on Wednesday morning, prompting warnings across the Pacific. Continue re…
Authorities ordered evacuations on Pacific islands of Ecuador and Chile; warnings downgraded elsewhere after 8.8-magnitude earthquake off Russia coastMajor tsunami no longer expected to hit Hawaii but coasts remain hazardousWhat are the strongest earth…
Impact of water surges less than initially feared after quake of 8.8 magnitude hit near Russia’s Kamchatka peninsulaTsunami warning – live updatesOne of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded triggered a series of tsunami warnings and evacuations acro…
‘Terrible fuel efficiency, no right-hand drive’: why trade deal won’t warm up Japan to American cars
Few vehicles like the Ford F-150 pick-up make it to Japan – as well as being made for the wrong side of the road, they are seen as too big and unreliableDonald Trump has declared that Japan is opening up its domestic market to US cars as part of the bi…
Analysts say the Japanese are suffering a crisis of confidence that is feeding xenophobia amid economic insecurity and a record number of foreign residents The emergence of a rightwing populist party in Japan’s upper house election on Sunday running on…
Tokyo’s failure to secure a US trade deal sooner had caused political uproar and economic uncertainty in Japan, with prime minister Ishiba reportedly considering his futureDonald Trump has announced a trade deal with Japan, potentially resolving weeks …
Ballot heaps pressure on Shigeru Ishiba’s minority government just as it attempts to negotiate deal to avert Trump tariffs Japanese prime minister Shigeru Ishiba’s future was unclear on Monday after his coalition lost its upper house majority in electi…
Nationalists win over disaffected first-time voters with a call for a return to family values and curbs on immigrationA far-right populist party promoting a “Japanese-first” agenda was one of the biggest winners in Sunday’s upper house elections, gaini…
Across Japan covered shopping arcades are in a losing battle against property developers, depopulation and consumer cultureTsutomu Nishiwaki raises the shutters of his store, the rattle marking the start of a new day at a shopping arcade in Tokyo. He w…
As soon as 2060, global heating may send temperatures high enough to stop children in most parts of country from taking part in outdoor summer sports, study showsThe tens of thousands of fans filing into Koshien baseball stadium near Osaka are more gra…
Search for missing man comes after series of attacks across Japan this month in which at least two people have diedAuthorities in Japan are searching for a hunter who went missing on a mountain in Hokkaido near where a brown bear was recently spotted, …
Japanese negotiators have just days before the end of Trump’s 90-day pause on punishing tariffs to pull off a breakthroughIt all seemed to be going so well. In April, Japan’s chief trade negotiator, Ryosei Akazawa, sat opposite Donald Trump in the Oval…
The team battled a notoriously strong current and used the stars as their guide to reach an island in an unstable vessel made of Japanese cedarDr Yousuke Kaifu was working at an archaeological site on the Japanese islands of Okinawa when a question sta…