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Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev landed Saturday in the Kuril islands, prompting a swift rebuke from Tokyo, which claims sovereignty over the northwest Pacific archipelago in a long-running dispute.

• 22 августа 2015, 15:29

BuzzFeed announced plans to launch a Japanese news website in a partnership with Yahoo Japan, the latest step in a global expansion push.

• 18 августа 2015, 13:19

Japan's economy contracted last quarter, boosting speculation the central bank will be forced to unleash more stimulus as Tokyo's "Abenomics" growth blitz stumbles.

• 17 августа 2015, 15:20

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expressed deep remorse Friday over World War II and said previous national apologies would stand.

• 15 августа 2015, 13:05

The designer of Tokyo's 2020 Olympics logo said he has withdrawn some designs created for drinks giant Suntory in the wake of fresh plagiarism allegations.

• 14 августа 2015, 14:12

Now 73 and sitting in his Tokyo home, Yohachi Nakajima fights back tears when he thinks of his Chinese adopted mother and the farming village he once called homeю

• 12 августа 2015, 16:24

Japan ended a two-year nuclear shutdown in the energy-hungry country, sparked by public fears following the 2011 Fukushima crisis, the worst atomic disaster in a generation.

• 11 августа 2015, 13:09

US entertainment giant Disney was forced to apologise after one of its Japanese language tweets was criticised for being insensitive.

• 10 августа 2015, 14:49

A draft of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's statement to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II includes the word "apology".

• 10 августа 2015, 13:20

Chingiz Alpyspayev, 17, from Kazakhstan is going to the World Yo-Yo Champion in Tokyo

• 06 августа 2015, 18:39

A Chinese newspaper with close ties to the ruling Communist Party slammed Japan for commemorating the atomic bombing of Hiroshima without highlighting its own wartime aggression.

• 06 августа 2015, 15:34

Step aside Abe-nomics, the Shinzo Abe brandwagon is rolling on... into honey, after the Japanese prime minister's wife decided to establish a beehive at their official residence.

• 13 июля 2015, 12:23

Nintendo said Monday that its chief executive Satoru Iwata has died of cancer at the age of 55.

• 13 июля 2015, 11:46

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe claimed his push to beef up Japan's military in the face of public and parliamentary opposition would be vindicated by history.

• 09 июля 2015, 13:51

The world's oldest man, Sakari Momoi, has died in Japan at the ripe old age of 112.

• 07 июля 2015, 12:37

The UN's cultural body conferred world heritage status on a number of new sites including some seen as representative of Japan's industrial revolution.

• 06 июля 2015, 11:04

The average speed of mobile Internet in Kazakhstan has increased to 10.47 megabit per second.

• 03 июля 2015, 16:01

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to play a constructive role in finding "peaceful and diplomatic solutions" to the crisis in Ukraine.

• 25 июня 2015, 11:53

Japan will host a summit of the Group of Seven industrial democracies on May 26-27 next year, its top government spokesman said.

• 23 июня 2015, 12:35

Japan marks the 70th anniversary of the end of the Battle of Okinawa, the bloodiest episode in the Pacific War, which killed a quarter of the island's population.

• 23 июня 2015, 10:06