‘The Shock of Shizuoka’, as it became known around the world, was alluded to by a number of Japanese media outlets in the build up to last Saturday.

ROBERT HEFFERNAN ended a spectacular season on a high when finishing fifth at the IAAF Race Walking Challenge Final over 20k in Murcia yesterday

Twenty-five passengers and the driver were injured when a train derailed in western Japan.

It’s wintertime and the king penguins at a zoo in northern Japan are putting on weight. But the keepers there have a solution: exercise.

A Japanese fighter jet training on Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido missed targets on a firing range and instead hit a car and a bus parked nearby, apparently with machine-gun rounds, police said today.