Japan faces an early flu epidemic with 4,000 hospitalisations and 135 school closures. Experts urge immediate vaccination for ...

Japan’s health authorities have declared an influenza epidemic, with thousands of people infected with the respiratory virus.

A Boeing 737 plane flying from Shanghai to Tokyo made an emergency landing in Osaka after a sudden pressurisation failure forced it to drop nearly 26,000ft in 10 minutes on Monday. Flight JL8696/IJ004 ...

Japan's population crisis has intensified according to government statistics which reveal child births fell for the eighth consecutive year to a new low in 2023. Births were down by 5.1 percent to 758 ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan's air force has begun emergency safety inspections on all of its nearly 200 military training aircraft after one of the planes crashed minutes after takeoff, officials said Thursday ...