カテゴリー: Japan
All Nippon Airways flight was en route to Toyama airport when crack found in window of Boeing 737-800A domestic flight of Japan’s All Nippon Airways returned to its departure airport on Saturday after a crack was found on the cockpit window of the Boei…
Tokyo district public prosecutors’ office says it has arrested Yoshitaka Ikeda, a former vice-education ministerProsecutors in Japan have made their first arrest in a financial scandal that has engulfed the country’s ruling party and sparked speculatio…
Boy, five, among 126 people dead, after boiling water spilled on him during Monday’s 7.6 magnitude quakeA woman in her 90s has been pulled alive from a collapsed house in western Japan, 124 hours after a major earthquake hit the region, killing at leas…
Number of missing lowered to 211 as thousands of troops join rescue effort and experts warn of disease risk at evacuation centresThe death toll from a major earthquake in western Japan reached 100 on Saturday as rescue workers fought aftershocks to car…
Footage from 1 January shows Wajima residents running from a landslide after a deadly earthquake struck the Japanese city in the Ishikawa prefecture. The full extent of damage and casualties remains unclear four days after the quake, which is already t…
Older people living in isolated places and outdated homes face enormous danger when disaster strikesThere was an unfamiliar feel to the scenes that greeted residents and rescue workers in central Japan after sunrise on Tuesday. The previous afternoon, …
Only eight Australians were on the Japan Airlines flight that crashed in Tokyo rather than the 12 initially suspectedThere were four fewer Australians on the Japan Airlines flight that burst into flames after landing than originally feared but all are …
Flight attendants needed permission from cockpit to open emergency exits, broadcaster reportsPilots on a Japan Airlines plane that became engulfed in flames just after all 379 passengers and crew escaped were initially unaware the aircraft was on fire,…
Pilot who halted blazing plane safely, crew who stuck to the drill and passengers who left their luggage behind delivered a textbook evacuationIt took firefighters more than six hours to extinguish the blaze that engulfed a Japan Airlines jet after it …
Experts have been examining how all passenger and crew on board the Japan Airlines flight to Haneda managed to escape aliveAfter all 379 passengers and crew on a Japan Airlines jet that crashed into another plane at a Tokyo airport escaped the burning …
A Japan Airlines passenger jet collided with a coastguard plane in a catastrophic accident at Haneda airport in Tokyo. Five people on the coastguard aircraft died but all 379 passengers and crew escaped to safety using emergency slides minutes before t…
Rescuers in Japan were scrambling to search for survivors on Wednesday as authorities warned of landslides from heavy rain after a powerful earthquake that killed at least 62 people. The 7.5-magnitude quake on 1 January rattled Ishikawa prefecture on t…
Smaller plane on runway was not cleared for takeoff, however, say authorities as investigations beginWhy the jet did not explode on impact – explainerA visual guide to the Tokyo airport collisionA passenger jet that collided with a coastguard plane at …
Ishikawa and its Noto peninsula, one of the worst affected areas, has been hit by more than 100 aftershocksJapanese rescuers were scrambling to search for survivors as authorities warned of landslides and heavy rain after a powerful earthquake that kil…
All 379 people aboard a Japan Airlines (JAL) plane escaped the burning airliner after a collision with a Coast Guard aircraft at Tokyo’s Haneda airport that killed five of six crew on the smaller aircraft. ‘Honestly, I felt my life was over. But when I…