A senior Japanese ruling party official said cancelling this year’s Olympic Games is an option if the coronavirus crisis becomes too dire, Kyodo news agency reported on Thursday, less than 100 days out from the planned start of the Games
The earthquake had a 7.3 magnitude and its epicentre was off the coast of Fukushima prefecture at a depth of 60 km (36 miles)
Taiwan came out on top of the list this year, ousting last year’s winner Thailand to the second place
A Panama-flagged ship sank late Saturday off Tokyo, sending 12 crew members including two Vietnamese overboard
Vietjet flights leaving for Japan between October 11-13 have all been rescheduled
It is an unusually large storm, expected to bring 'brutal winds and violent seas' to large swathes of the country
The award-winning invention can read ancient Japanese handwriting
About 90 percent of 770 Japanese restaurants in Vietnam, 51.95 percent of which are located in Ho Chi Minh City, are serving Vietnamese diners
The Japanese Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City, on behalf of the Japanese government, has presented the Order of the Rising Sun, only the second of its kind awarded to a Vietnamese citizen, to businessman Nguyen Tri Dung
Relations between the neighbours, haunted by the legacy of Japan's World War Two aggression and conflicting claims over a group of East China Sea islets, have warmed after Abe met Chinese President Xi Jinping twice since last November