Nobel Peace Prize: Nihon Hidankyo group is the moral heart of the world anti-nuclear movement
Japan’s official position, sheltering under the US nuclear umbrella while paying lip service to survivors, is often uncomfortable
Who is Japan’s new prime minister-elect?
Veteran conservative Shigeru Ishiba, who advocates an Asian version of Nato, has repeatedly feuded with ruling party over political differences and corruption
Nagasaki atomic bomb memorial ceremony overshadowed by snub to Israel
Ambassadors from US and Britain stayed away in protest at snub, which the city’s mayor denied was political in nature
Tokyo Letter: ‘Pacifist’ Japan is tooling up for war
Japan will soon have the third-largest defence budget in the world after the US and China
Japan’s ruling party rocked by photos of crusty old politicians and lingerie-clad dancers
Japan’s LDP is one of the most successful political parties in the world, holding power since 1955. Could scandal finally hurt it?
Government under too much pressure to provide migrants with accommodation of choice - Minister
Taoiseach disagrees with suggestion that alternative site on grounds of former nursing home in Crooksling in southwest Dublin was too isolated for migrants
Japan earthquake: Death toll rises to 55 as rescuers search rubble
Rescue operation in Ishikawa Prefecture is being hindered by buckled roads, and death toll is expected to rise
Japan earthquake: people ordered to evacuate affected areas after tsunami alerts issued
First tsunami waves hit Japan’s coast after warnings issued for a number of prefectures on the west coast
Toxic fallout from Fukushima nuclear accident will continue for decades
Japan to release treated radioactive water into Pacific Ocean as opponents react with impotent fury
Twelve years on from Fukushima’s horror, fishermen still feel the effects
Japan Letter: A plan to release 1.3 million tons of contaminated wastewater into the Pacific has infuriated those who make their living from the sea
Former British prime minister Liz Truss warns about ‘rise of totalitarian China’
Tokyo conference hears that view of ‘benign’ China constitutes a dangerous and misplaced global assumption
Erstwhile China advocate Liz Truss now singing from a different hymn sheet
Former British prime minister raises the alarm about Beijing’s sabre rattling towards ‘renegade’ Taiwan
Japan tries to incentivise parenthood in bid to bolster waning population
Japanese people are having fewer children but, in the face of the climate crisis, should larger families be encouraged?
Tokyo Letter: Japan tools up for conflict in Asia
Defence strategists in Japan are increasingly explicit about ‘threat’ posed by China
Tokyo Letter: Opposition grows to state funeral for Shinzo Abe
Former prime minister’s ties to the Unification Church prompt unease with a ceremonial burying