With Japan preparing to restart a nuclear reactor, the world’s largest, in the coastal prefecture of Niigata, a Newsweek map ...

A moderately strong, 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck in Japan on Tuesday, according to the United States Geological Survey.

The Constitution of Japan, adopted on November 3, 1946, explicitly bans the creation of armed forces. However, over the past fifty years, Japan has built up land, air, and sea-based Self-Defense ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A powerful tsunami spawned by the largest earthquake in Japan’s recorded history slams the eastern coast Friday. Dozens of cities and villages along the ...

U.S. security treaty ally Japan recorded intensive maneuvers by the Russian and Chinese navies in its surrounding waters in the past year, with both neighbors frequently transiting near its territory ...

Noisy children playing in the street? There’s a map for that. Controversy has been crescendoing over an interactive map of Japan that pinpoints neighbourhoods with noisy children, so that those who ...

South Korea occupies the rocky and remote islands of Dokdo, but Japan calls them Takeshima and claims they are an integral part of its territory. As neither side is backing down, relations continue to ...