A US destroyer has arrived back in its home port after colliding with a container ship four times its size, leaving seven sailors missing.

A powerful earthquake off the Japanese coast sent residents fleeing to higher ground and triggered worries about the Fukushima nuclear power plant destroyed by a tsunami five years ago.

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At least 19 people were killed and about 20 wounded in a knife attack at a centre for disabled people near Tokyo last night - Japan's worst mass killing in generations.

A runway had to be closed at one of Tokyo's main airports after a Hawaiian Airlines jet punctured its tyres while making an emergency landing.

US president Barack Obama yesterday said his visit to Hiroshima, the first city to suffer an atomic bombing, would emphasise friendly ties between former enemies, and reiterated he would not apologise for the devastating attack.

A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.1 struck southern Japan yesterday, barely 24 hours after a smaller quake hit the region, killing nine people.

A second earthquake of magnitude 6.4 has struck southern Japan in the same area affected by another quake earlier.

Floodwaters have swamped a city near Tokyo, washing away houses and forcing dozens of people to rooftops, from which they had to be rescued by helicopters.

Multiple explosions and a large fire at a US Army depot lit up the night sky in a Tokyo suburb, but no injuries were reported.

From the prime minister to ordinary people, Japanese were shocked at a video purportedly showing one of two Japanese hostages of the extremist Islamic State (IS) group had been killed.

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Japan’s prime minister said he was left “speechless” by a video purportedly showing one of two Japanese hostages of the extremist Islamic State group had been killed.

The deadline for paying ransom for two Japanese hostages held by the Islamic State group (IS) was fast approaching early today with no signs of a breakthrough.

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Japan's ruling coalition has won a resounding victory in lower house elections, strengthening Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's hold on power as he prepares to push forward on several politically difficult fronts.

It’s a needle-in-a-haystack documentary — with a twist — about a Corkman who survived the Nagasaki nuclear blast and ended up with a Samurai sword given to him by a Japanese officer.

A powerful typhoon that has killed at least one US airman slammed central Japan, disrupting transport and triggering mudslides, before swerving to the Pacific Ocean.

Seven people are unaccounted for after a volcano in central Japan erupted in spectacular fashion today.

A volcano has erupted in central Japan, sending a large plume of ash high into the sky and prompting a warning to climbers and others to avoid the area.

At least six people were confirmed dead and 22 were missing after rain-sodden hills in the outskirts of Hiroshima gave way in several landslides.

A weakened typhoon slammed into Japan, leaving one person dead, more than 30 injured and prompting evacuation alerts for some 1.1 million residents near swollen rivers.

A strong earthquake hit Japan’s northern coast near the nuclear power plant crippled in the 2011 tsunami.

An Irish-made TV series turned down for state funding has been nominated for a prestigious Emmy award.

Eighty-year-old Japanese mountaineer Yuichiro Miura has become the oldest man to reach the top of Mount Everest.

A strong earthquake has struck Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido, but authorities said there is no danger of a tsunami and there are no immediate reports of injuries or damage.

A battery beneath the cockpit of the Boeing 787 forced to make an emergency landing in Japan was swollen from overheating, a safety official said today, as India joined the US and Japan in grounding the aircraft because of fire risk.

It has terrorised mariners since ancient times and eluded researchers for decades, but now the 'Kraken' of the deep has given up its secrets.

Japanese public broadcaster NHK is projecting that the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party has won a clear majority in parliamentary elections.

Shock and sympathy were the initial reactions from around the world to the shooting rampage that left 28 people dead, including 20 children, in Connecticut.

A strong earthquake struck today off the coast of north-eastern Japan in the same region that was hit by a massive earthquake and tsunami last year.

A strong earthquake has shaken north eastern Japan, NHK TV said. A tsunami warning has been issued.

At least seven people were missing and several feared dead after about 150 concrete panels fell from the roof of a tunnel on the main highway linking Tokyo with central Japan.

At least seven people were missing and several feared dead after about 150 concrete panels fell from the roof of a tunnel on the main highway linking Tokyo with central Japan.

In Japan, rescuers have recovered five bodies from a motorway tunnel which collapsed this morning.

At least seven people were missing today after about 150 concrete panels fell from the roof of a tunnel on the main highway linking Tokyo with central Japan.

A powerful typhoon lashed the southern Japanese island of Okinawa and surrounding areas today, injuring four people and cutting off power to about 57,000 households.

Troops yesterday airlifted supplies to thousands of people cut off by landslides and torrential downpours that have killed at least 24 in south-west Japan as further heavy rain was forecast.

Three death row inmates in Japan were executed by hanging today as the country carried out its first death sentences in more than a year and a half.

Japan’s Emperor Akihito will have heart bypass surgery, it was reported.

A nationwide manhunt that riveted Japan has ended with the capture of a Chinese convict who bolted from a Hiroshima jail clad only in his underwear.