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Sold! Basquiat 'skull' canvas goes for 84 million euros at 'electrifying' auction

A painting by US artist Jean-Michel Basquiat has become the sixth most expensive canvas ever sold at auction.

Japan

Japan: Emperor Akihito 'abdication bill' backed by cabinet

Parliament still needs to give its approval to the bill which would allow the 83-year-old to step down.

Japan

Bill paves way for Japan's ageing Emperor to step down

Japan’s cabinet has approved a bill to allow Emperor Akihito to step down.

Korea

North Korean test missile 'capable of carrying nuclear warhead'

North Korea has claimed that the new type of ballistic missile it launched on Sunday is capable of carrying a nuclear warhead.

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North Korea

North Korea: latest missile flies 700km

North Korea has fired a missile which landed in the Sea of Japan 30 minutes after being launched.

Sport

England drawn in Rugby World Cup 'Pool of Death'

England have been drawn in the ominously-dubbed ‘Pool of Death’ for the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan.

Japan

Drunk passenger starts fistfight on plane

Footage has emerged of the moment a man entered into a fistfight with another passenger on an All Nippon Airways (ANA) flight from Japan to the USA.

Japan

Japan-Russia cooperation paves way for peace treaty

Japan

Japan deploys warship as North Korea tensions mount

Japan has dispatched its biggest warship, reportedly to help safeguard US naval manoeuvres in the region.

United Kingdom

UK PM May meets Japan's Abe to discuss Brexit fallout

The British prime minister is hosting her Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe at her official Chequers residence

Russia

'Talk instead of yelling at North Korea' - Russian diplomat

The US said on Thursday that its policy was to exert maximum pressure on North Korea through sanctions and diplomatic activity, echoing comments made by the Trump administration the previous…

North Korea

Putin and Abe in call to defuse tensions over North Korea

Vladimir Putin and Shinzo Abe have called on North Korea and other countries to avoid antagonising tensions around Pyongyang’s nuclear programme.

Japan

US navy sails wrong way as North Korean audience cheers nuked America video

A naval strike group ordered by Donald Trump into waters off Korea remains far away as delayed deployment raises eyebrows about effectiveness of US strategy.

Japan

The US talks trade with Tokyo

The US vice president is in Japan for talks. Mike Pence is also hoping to reassure Tokyo, a key ally, amid rising tensions over North Korea.

World News

South Korea: North's failed missile test 'threatens whole world'

South Korea reacted to the North’s failed missile launch on Sunday by threatening punitive action if such action is repeated, or leads to further provocation such as a nuclear test or a long-range mis

Japan

North Korea: Japan warns of Sarin missile threat

The North Korean US-based monitoring service 38 North has said the country’s nuclear site is ‘‘primed and ready’‘ for a sixth nuclear test.

Business Series

Toshiba warns it may not survive amid massive Westinghouse losses

Japanese conglomerate Toshiba is in crisis, saying its very survival is in doubt.

Japan

Insect noodles on the menu in Tokyo

A full meal consists of insect ramen, a bowl of rice with crickets, spring rolls with fried worms and ice cream flavoured with insect powder

Korea

US warships are sent to the Korean peninsula

An aircraft-carrier led navy strike group was rerouted towards the western Pacific amid concerns about Pyongyang's weapons programme.

Sport

Japanese Olympians join schoolchildren for education programme launch

Hundreds of children take part in official launch ceremony for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic education programme