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About 5,000 people including Japan's prime minister and the US ambassador to Japan held a memorial service today to mark the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Okinawa, one of the bloodiest conflicts of the Second World War.

Heavy rain and gusts have ripped through a large swathe of India’s eastern seaboard, uprooting trees and snapping power cables as a powerful cyclone swept through the Bay of Bengal, one of two storms pounding Asia.

Heavy rain and gusts have ripped through a large swathe of India’s eastern seaboard, uprooting trees and snapping power cables as a powerful cyclone swept through the Bay of Bengal, one of two storms pounding Asia.

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.

A powerful typhoon is heading toward Tokyo after lashing southern Japan, where it killed at least one US airman on Okinawa island and left two others missing.

A strong storm has swerved towards Japan’s heavily populated main islands after slamming through the southern islands inflicting injuries on 32 people.

A powerful typhoon has buffeted the southern Japanese islands of Okinawa, paralysing transport and injuring at least 10 people.

Two names listed on the manifest of the missing Malaysian Airlines flight match passports reported stolen in Thailand, foreign ministry officials in Rome and Vienna have confirmed.

A US air force F-15 fighter jet has crashed into the Pacific off the southern Japanese island of Okinawa after the aircraft developed problems in flight.

North Korea’s sabre-ratting against the US has actually left its strongest ally, China, feeling that it is being encircled, writes Paul Eckert.

Old-guard veteran Shinzo Abe was voted back into office as prime minister of Japan today and immediately named a new cabinet, ending three years of liberal administrations and restoring power to his conservative, pro-big-business party that has run the country for most of the post-Second World War era.

Japanese aircraft have spotted seven Chinese warships in waters off a southern Japan island and about 125 miles from the uninhabited isles at the centre of a territorial dispute between the two countries.

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 British teacher Lindsay Hawker have spoken of their relief after a Japanese court rejected an appeal by her killer.

Japan's defence minister has ordered missile units to intercept a rocket expected to be launched by North Korea next month if it flies over Japan.

Japanese prime minister Yoshihiko Noda replaced five members of his Cabinet today in a bid to win more co-operation from the opposition to raise the sales tax and rein in the country’s bulging fiscal deficit.

More than 200,000 coastal residents in eastern China have been evacuated and thousands of ships called back to shore today as Typhoon Muifa bears down on the country after battering the Philippines, Taiwan and Japan.

THE father of murdered British teacher Lindsay Hawker said his family had finally achieved justice after her killer was jailed for life in Japan.

A JAPANESE man accused of raping and murdering British teacher Lindsay Ann Hawker, whose battered body was found in a sand-filled bathtub, has admitted the killing, but said it was accidental.

THE Japanese man accused of murdering British teacher Lindsay Hawker has written a book confessing to the killing — and has promised to donate the proceeds to her family.

New prime minister Naoto Kan warned today that Japan could face a debt crisis like Greece if it did not deal urgently with its swelling national debt.

Joan Collins led tributes to John Forsythe, the actor who made his fortune as the scheming oil tycoon in 'Dynasty' and the voice of the leader of 'Charlie's Angels', who died after a year-long battle with cancer.

Hundreds of US Marines landed on the Pacific island of Iwo Jima today to prepare for the 65th anniversary of one of the Second World War’s bloodiest battles.

A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.9 rattled Japan’s southern islands early today, injuring two and initially prompting fears of a tsunami.

A magnitude 6.9 earthquake hit off Japan’s southern coast, shaking Okinawa and nearby islands, where a tsunami warning was issued, Japan’s Meteorological Agency said.

Small tsunami waves caused by a powerful earthquake which hit Samoa in the Pacific Ocean reached Japan today, officials said.

A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0 struck off the coast of the southern Japanese island of Okinawa today, Japan’s Meteorological Agency said.

Officials in the Philippines refused to give up hope of rescuing some of the 800 people missing after a ferry capsized during Typhoon Fengshen, even as high seas stalled efforts to get inside the vessel today.

AT A Zen Buddhist temple in southern Japan, even the dog prays.