A satellite operated by Japanese company Astroscale has chased down a 15-year-old piece of space junk and taken an up-close image of it.
The object is a discarded rocket segment that's about 11m by 4m (36ft by 15ft), with a mass of three (...)
Global oil and gold prices jumped and shares fell after US officials said an Israeli missile had struck Iran.
After initial sharp moves in Asia on Friday, the market reaction eased with Brent crude oil trading around 1.7% higher, to sit above $88 a (...)
Sumo legend Taro Akebono, who drove a resurgence in the sport's popularity and became its first foreign grand champion, has died of heart failure at the age of 54.
The Hawaiian-born wrestler passed away in a Tokyo hospital earlier this month, his (...)
Six men have been arrested in connection with the killing of South African footballer Luke Fleurs.
The 24-year-old Kaizer Chiefs star was shot dead in a car-jacking at a petrol station in Johannesburg last week.
In a statement, police said that the (...)
Ukraine's parliament passed a law on Thursday that will govern how the country recruits new conscripts, following months of delay and after thousands of amendments were submitted to water down the initial draft.
Lawmakers dragged their feet for (...)
Colonization, bloodshed, war crimes, occupation, controversial military bases. These are all issues intertwined in the collective history of the United States, Japan and the Philippines.
But when the leaders of the three countries sit down at the (...)
Spiraling geopolitical tensions have pushed the world to a "historic turning point" and are forcing Japan to change its defense posture, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida told CNN Sunday ahead of a closely watched summit with US President Joe (...)
JEDDAH — The art collective teamLab and the Saudi Ministry of Culture have announced the construction of the teamLab Borderless Jeddah museum within the Jeddah Historic District. This marks the first permanent teamLab Borderless museum in the Middle (...)
The man in charge of compensating sexual abuse victims of Japan's most famous pop Svengali says the scandal goes further than first thought.
Noriyuki Higashiyama told the BBC he believes there were two more perpetrators at Johnny Kitagawa's agency (...)
Japan's cabinet has approved the export of new fighter jets it is developing with the UK and Italy, in the latest move away from its pacifist policies.
It eased arms export rules to allow the jets to be sold to countries that Japan has signed (...)
A major Japanese drugmaker has said it is investigating a death that could be linked to its red yeast rice pills — which were recalled earlier last week.
More than 26 people were hospitalized after taking the beni kōji fermented rice products, the (...)
Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has slammed a gathering of ruling party members last November that involved scantily-clad dancers.
Leaked footage of the event, organized by a chapter of the Liberal Democratic Party, showed women in swimwear, (...)
Space One's 'Kairos' rocket burst into flames shortly after lift-off in western Japan on Wednesday.
The explosion left a large plume of smoke in the air and sent fiery debris flying near the launchpad.
The Tokyo start-up was racing to become Japan's (...)
Japan's Moon lander has survived the harsh lunar night, the sunless and freezing equivalent to two Earth weeks.
"Last night, a command was sent to #SLIM and a response received," national space agency Jaxa said on X.
The craft was put into sleep (...)
Travelers who arrived in Tokyo in April 2023 to experience the city's famous cherry tree petals were faced with quite a surprise: instead of blooming as forecast in late March, the pink sakura appeared 10 days earlier than predicted.
This was no (...)
Japan's space agency says it has successfully launched its flagship H3 space rocket, a year after its maiden attempt ended in failure.
The H3 left the Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan at 9:22 a.m. local time on Saturday, the Japan (...)
New recruits to the Japanese military will be allowed to have longer hair in a bid to attract more young people, the country's Defense Ministry has said.
The announcement comes as Japan struggles with a shortage of soldiers in the face of growing (...)
Japan has unexpectedly fallen into a recession after its economy shrank for two quarters in a row.
The country's gross domestic product (GDP) contracted by a worse-than-expected 0.4% in the last three months of 2023, compared to a year earlier.
It (...)
Lionel Messi played in a Japan friendly after missing a match in Hong Kong, leaving Chinese fans seething and sparking conspiracy theories.
State media outlet Global Times accused Messi and his club Inter Miami of "political motives" with the aim to (...)
The Ukraine-born winner of the Miss Japan beauty pageant has given up her crown after a tabloid report revealed her affair with a married man.
Karolina Shiino, 26, was crowned Miss Japan two weeks ago but her win sparked public debate due to her (...)
Three foreign-born residents in Japan are suing the country's government over alleged racial profiling, highlighting an ongoing debate about Japanese identity and nationality.
The three plaintiffs, all residents of Tokyo, filed the lawsuit in the (...)
Japan's Moon lander has resumed operations after being shut for a week due to a power supply issue.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said it re-established contact with the lander Sunday night, indicating that the glitch had been fixed.
Its (...)
Japan's Moon lander ended up on its nose when it made its historic touchdown on the lunar surface.
The first picture of the stricken Slim spacecraft shows it rotated 90 degrees from how it should have come to rest.
This will go some way to (...)
A Japanese man has been sentenced to death for an arson attack at a Kyoto animation studio in 2019 which killed 36 people and injured dozens more.
The incident, one of Japan's deadliest in recent decades, killed mostly young artists and shocked the (...)
"There have been racial barriers, and it has been challenging to be accepted as Japanese."
That's what a tearful Carolina Shiino said in impeccable Japanese after she was crowned Miss Japan on Monday.
The 26-year-old model, who was born in Ukraine, (...)