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Ambassadors from US and Britain stayed away in protest at snub, which the city’s mayor denied was political in nature

Nuclear Regulation Authority says 12 nuclear reactors, including three currently operating, on Kyushu and Shikoku islands remained safe

Tokyo equities surged 9% following Monday’s global rout but US and European recoveries were more muted

US and Japan agree joint military structure in response to ‘evolving security environment’

Haven’t heard of the Irish writer? He moved to Japan to teach English for a year. That was more than 20 years ago. His life there gives him lots of time for his fiction, he says

Whether shopping in the presence of live deer, riding the bullet train to Kyoto or remembering the past in Hiroshima, Japan accommodates extremes with apparent ease

Television: Full points to Apple for achieving peak menace from a standing start

Pact sets the stage for ‘interoperability exercises’ between the two nations

Strange deconstruction of beautiful game believes ego is the defining characteristic of a special striker. You don’t get that in Escape to Victory

Roger Crowley explores how ‘restless Europeans’ such as Spain and Portugal created a global ‘maritime belt’ of trade and empire

A studio in Ibiza, a geodesic dome in Eleuthera, a ski cabin in Rena, a condo in Chiba or a converted farmhouse in Battlebridge

Japan will soon have the third-largest defence budget in the world after the US and China

Latest data shows number of Japanese nationals falling by almost 100 an hour on average despite government efforts

Despite the pursuit of hard fact, the nature of reality is illuminated by Eastern thought as much as it is by atomic theory

Formed by the three countries in 2021, Aukus is part of efforts to push back against China’s power

Planet Business: FTSE 100 crosses 8,000 again, Alex Kroes is suspended at Ajax and Taylor Swift becomes a billionaire

Magnitude 7.3 quake topples dozens of buildings and leaves others tilting, particularly in eastern county of Hualien

Central bank sets new policy rate range of up to 0.1%, ending most aggressive monetary stimulus programme in modern history

Japan’s LDP is one of the most successful political parties in the world, holding power since 1955. Could scandal finally hurt it?

The Japanese director’s new film tells a story more slippery than that of Anatomy of a Fall. Pay attention throughout

Whether in Nobody Knows, Shoplifters or Like Father, Like Son, the Japanese auteur can dramatise children’s inner lives like no other film-maker

Rónán Hession reviews a selection that includes an impressive work by International Booker Prize winner Georgi Gospidinov

Planet Business: Spain’s economic surge; the UK’s corruption ‘wake-up call’; and the petition to switch the extra leap year day to June 31st

Fully clothed women will take part in hadaka matsuri, in which thousands of men dress in next to nothing to drive away evil spirits

Shinji Aoba (45) broke into Kyoto Animation’s building, doused the entrance area with petrol and set it alight

Dubbed the ‘moon sniper’, Slim is now operating on its battery which lasts only for ‘a few hours’

Aftershocks threaten to bury more homes and block roads crucial for relief shipments

Planet Business: Steamboat Willie, the first female centibillionaire and this year’s tipped holiday destinations

Anton Deibe (17) was aboard with his family when it collided with a Coast Guard plane on Tuesday

New Year’s Day quake killed at least 78 people on country’s northwest coast

Death toll rises to at least 65 after earthquake that struck Noto peninsula on New Year’s Day

All 379 people on board Japan Airlines flight escaped after it erupted in flames, but five Coast Guard crew were killed in collision

Airline says all 367 passengers and 12 crew disembarked in under 20 minutes after Airbus A350 collided with coast guard aircraft

Japan Airlines plane collides with Coast Guard aircraft

Rescue operation in Ishikawa Prefecture is being hindered by buckled roads, and death toll is expected to rise

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First tsunami waves hit Japan’s coast after warnings issued for a number of prefectures on the west coast

Investigation is examining if dozens of lawmakers benefited from fundraising events that kept millions of yen off official records of ruling party

Countries battle to save climate deal after row over ending fossil fuels

Eye surgery curtailed the German director’s appearances recently but he’s back on track with two films, Anselm and Perfect Days