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Heading for Hawaii, Solar Impulse II takes off for the most risky leg of its round the world trip

Solar Impulse II gets clearance for takeoff after a three week wait, and sets off to continue its historic journey. The solar powered aircraft took

Sport

Japan appoint first Olympic minister

Toshiaki Endo has been appointed as Japan’s first Olympic minister. Top of the agenda for the 65-year-old is to guide the country through

World News

Toyota and Nissan to recall more than 3 million more cars over airbag

Japan

Abe faces angry mourners at Okinawa commemoration

It is the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Okinawa, in which one in four Okinawans were killed in the bloodiest battle of the Pacific theatre at the

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A-bomb exhibition: Hiroshima-Nagasaki, 70 years on

It is a story of devastation. An event that woke the world to the awful power of the atomic bomb. Hiroshima and Nagasaki entered the world’s

World

Slow Education: less test-focused, personalised schooling

Learning World discovers more about a movement that is trying to encourage more personal learning at school and put less focus on exams.

Japan

Torrential rains in south Japan trigger evacuations

Japanese authorities urged more than 300,000 residents to evacuate their homes on Thursday as torrential rains battered the south of the country

Japan

Magnitude 8.5 quake strikes off eastern Japan

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Watch: Volcano erupts on Japanese island

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Strange rainbow in Japan

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Reactor cover to be dismantled at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant

The operator of Japan’s tsunami-crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant has reportedly started work on dismantling a cover placed over a reactor

Japan

Japan cabinet approves draft laws to expand military role

Japan's cabinet has approved bills which would trigger a dramatic shift in security policy, allowing the military to fight overseas for the first time since World War II.

Japan

Japanese government confirms major shift in military policy

A major shift in Japan’s security policy is being planned. After years of having a pacifist stance, the government has agreed to new draft laws to

Japan

Five issues that feed the WWII debate in Japan

USA

Japan PM Abe tells US Congress of 'repentance' over World War Two

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has expressed “deep repentance” over his country’s role in World War Two, during a landmark speech to the

USA

Empty-handed, but smiling: US and Japan fail to agree on trade pact

US President Barack Obama and have Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe emerged smiling, but empty handed, from talks in Washington. The two nations

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Gay pride parade in Tokyo

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Cat-astrophe averted for purr-fect white tiger

Japan

Recordbreaker! Japan bullet train goes like a ... well it's fast!

The fastest bullet train in the world has broken its own speed record during a test run. Japan’s maglev train reached a record speed of 603

Japan

Asiana Airlines plane skids off Japanese runway