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Hagibis is being compared to a typhoon in 1958 that killed 1,200 people and caused destruction across the Tokyo area and Shizuoka prefecture. Emergency alerts accompanied by loud chimes are bein…
Hundreds of thousands of households in Japan were advised to evacuate due to fears of flooding as a powerful typhoon was set to make landfall late on Saturday, bringing with it the heaviest rain and …
Japan has been engulfed by heavy rain and strong winds as what is feared to be the worst storm for six decades batters the country and approaches Tokyo. Rivers swelled, boats flipped over and se…
Seen as the world’s first novel, The Tale of Genji was completed around 1010 by a woman of the 11th-century Heian court of Japan, who was later given the name Murasaki Shikibu by scholars. …
Ireland are second in the pool with 11 points while the Scots, with a game in hand against Russia, have five. Samoa’s discipline problems in this tournament continued when the flanker TJ Ioane w…
Follow these simple edicts and you’ll thoroughly enjoy this idiosyncratic barThere are few places in Tokyo as polarising as Bar Martha. Photograph: Oscar BoydBar Martha is what is known in Japan…
'We have to get along': Japan's Korean residents at sharp end of diplomatic rowLong lunchtime queues form outside restaurants serving samgyeopsal (barbecued pork belly) and sundubu jji…
Rugby union fans across Japan celebrated wildly after their side's stunning World Cup win against Ireland. The World Cup hosts beat the No 2-ranked Irish side 19-12 in Shizuoka.…
Thanks to traditional production methods that create high-quality, long-lasting jeans, Japanese denim has iconic status among “connoisseur denim heads”, who are prepared to pay £250 or more…
Prosecutors had accused the former executives of failing to act on information that showed the risks to the plant from a major tsunami. “It is difficult to deal with issues that are uncertain an…
