Japan

A woman in her 90s has been pulled alive from a collapsed house in western Japan, 124 hours after a major quake slammed the region, killing at least 126 people, toppling buildings and setting off landslides.

Rescue workers and canine units urgently sifted through rubble Wednesday ahead of predicted freezing cold and heavy rain in what the prime minister called a race against time after powerful earthquakes in western Japan killed at least 73 people.

In the video, passengers and flight attendants can be seen covering their faces as the cabin fills with smoke.

A series of powerful quakes hit western Japan on New Year’s day, destroying tens of thousands of homes.

A Japan Airlines passenger plane and a Japanese Coast Guard flight both erupted into flames at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport on Tuesday after an apparent collision.

A large passenger plane and a Japanese coast guard aircraft have collided on the runway at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport and burst into flames. Officials say five people aboard the coast guard plane were killed. All 379 people on the Japan Airlines flight got out safely. The head of the Transport Ministry Civil Aviation Bureau says the collision occurred when the...

A series of strong earthquakes struck the Sea of Japan on New Year’s Day, collapsing homes and prompting a tsunami warning.

A series of powerful earthquakes hit western Japan, leaving at least 94 people dead and damaging thousands of buildings, vehicles and boats.

“Oppenheimer,” the blockbuster film about U.S. efforts to develop the world’s first nuclear weapons, is finally coming to theaters in Japan, where it faced fierce public backlash over what critics said was insensitivity toward the only country to have suffered atomic bombings.

The crew ranged in ages from 24 to 36 years old and came from eight states, including California, Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Ohio and Utah.

The U.S. Air Force says divers have discovered wreckage and the remains of five crew members from a U.S. Air Force Osprey aircraft that crashed last week off southwestern Japan.

The wastewater discharges, which are expected to continue for decades, have been strongly opposed by fishing groups and neighboring countries including South Korea.

Two Japanese wrestlers took part in a unique bout from inside a bullet train.

Japanese professional fighters battled along a carriage aisle in what the organizer says was the first wrestling match held inside a bullet train.

In cooperation with NASA, JAXA will look at the strength of light at different wavelengths, the temperature of things in space and their shapes and brightness

Assembly lines at Toyota’s auto plants in Japan are shut down over a computer system problem.

North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un has called for his military to be constantly ready for combat to thwart plots to invade his country, as the U.S., South Korea and Japan held a trilateral naval exercise to deal with North Korea’s evolving nuclear threats.

The sound of treated radioactive water flowing to an underground pool could be heard as media toured Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant for the first time after it began releasing the water into the Pacific Ocean last week.

Japan began releasing more than 1 million metric tons of radioactive water into the ocean on Thursday as part of its plan to decommission the Fukushima nuclear power plant.

Japan’s tsunami-wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has begun releasing its first batch of treated radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean.