On stage is the place where I feel most myself. I feel incredibly safe on stage. 

A 5.3-magnitude earthquake has hit the Japanese prefecture that is home to the nuclear power plant crippled in the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

Commuters were left temporarily stranded in Tokyo today when an unexploded bomb left over from the Second World War was found on a building site.

Nicola Furlong’s mother has said she wants to see her daughter’s murderer serve his sentence in a Japanese prison instead of being moved to more lenient conditions in his native US.

The close friend of Nicola Furlong who was with her on the night of her death broke down in tears as she told a Tokyo court she believed drinks spiked with drugs were the reason the two of them blacked out after drinking with the man accused of strangling Ms Furlong and another man standing trial for assaulting the unidentified Irishwoman last May.

The friend of Nicola Furlong broke down in court in Japan today as she re-lived the night her friend was killed.

The second day in the trial of an American musician accused of killing Wexford exchange student Nicola Furlong in Tokyo gets under way this morning.

Corkman Adrian McCarthy wrote about the brutality of being a prisoner in Japan in WW2, says Carl Dixon

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.

The family of murdered student Nicola Furlong will attend a preliminary hearing into her murder today in Japan.

Two men have been charged with indecently assaulting the friend of a young Irish woman whose body was found in Tokyo last week.

A strong earthquake registering a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 has struck off Japan’s northeastern coast, triggering a tsunami alert.

Russell Brand was denied entry into Japan by immigration officials yesterday.

An 6.1 magnitude earthquake has struck off the east coast of Japan.

Two to three hundred bodies have been found in a north-eastern coastal area of Japan after a massive earthquake triggered a tsunami.

A 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck today in the Pacific Ocean off southern Japan, but there were no reports of damage or injury.

NOW all of 85 years of age, Tomás Mac Giolla made a rare public appearance in the pages of Hot Press this week, reflecting on a colourful and controversial life in Republican and left-wing politics in Ireland.

The global recession will make this year the “worst in the history of aviation” for the airline industry, Richard Branson warned today.

World bronze medalist Viktor Rothlin won the Tokyo Marathon on Sunday to set a new Swiss national record of two hours seven minutes and 23 seconds.

US fighter planes intercepted two Russian bombers flying unusually close to an American aircraft carrier in the western Pacific during the weekend, it was reported today.

A special envoy of Chinese President Hu Jintao today told US President George Bush that China wants a strong UN response to North Korea’s claimed nuclear test, a White House spokesman said.

US President George Bush today called for stiff sanctions on North Korea for its reported nuclear test and asserted that the US has “no intentions of attacking” the reclusive regime.

Zebedayo Bayo, winner of the Tokyo Marathon, has predicted he will smash the long-standing course record in Sunday’s historic Athens Classic race.

Japan is preparing to impose sanctions against North Korea if it carries out a reported threat to conduct nuclear tests, it was reported today.

The CIA intercepted a message from an al-Qaida member boasting of plans to carry out a "Hiroshima" on America, it was revealed today.