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Yoshihide Suga takes the applause in parliament after being voted in as prime minister

Suga elected Japan's new PM in parliament vote

World • 16 Sep

Yoshihide Suga acknowledges the crowd as he is elected new head of Japan's ruling party the LDP

Suga set to become Japanese PM after winning party vote

World • 14 Sep

The UK's International Trade Secretary Liz Truss

UK agrees first major post-Brexit trade deal with Japan

Business • 11 Sep

Japan, the world's third-largest economy, shrank an annualised 28.1% in the three months from April to June

Japan reports worst postwar economic downturn

Business • 08 Sep

Large waves break over a coastal wall at Imwon harbour in Donnghae, Gangwon-do province, South Korea

Typhoon Haishen threatens Korea after battering Japan

World • 07 Sep

A 30-year-old Philippine national became the second survivor of the capsized cattle ship

Second crew member of capsized ship rescued near Japan

World • 04 Sep

Shinzo Abe announced his resignation as Japan's Prime Minister due to health reasons

Race for new Japan PM starts after shock resignation

World • 29 Aug

Speculation about the prime minister's health has been mounting recently

Japan PM Abe resigns over health problems

World • 28 Aug

A slow economic recovery from last quarter's record slump is expected to weigh on Japanese prices as consumer demand collapsed amid resurgent Covid infections

Japan's consumer prices flat as deflation spectre looms

Business • 21 Aug

Japan, the world's third-largest economy, shrank an annualised 27.8% in the three months from April to June

Japan's record economic plunge wipes out Abe era gains

Business • 17 Aug

People pray at the Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo

Japan marks 75th anniversary of WWII defeat

Asia • 15 Aug

The number of participants in this year's ceremony was reduced due to coronavirus fears

Nagasaki commemorates 75 years since atomic bombing

World • 09 Aug

A man holds a flower as he queues to pray in remembrance of the victims of the Hiroshima bombing

Hiroshima marks 75 years since atomic bombing

World • 06 Aug

The plaintiffs were in areas showered in radioactive 'black rain' following the attack

Japanese court recognises more Hiroshima bomb survivors

World • 29 Jul

Launch in Japan was broadcast on screens at the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre in Dubai

First Arab space mission to Mars launches from Japan

World • 20 Jul

Robots wore Hawks caps and waved flags supporting the team as they danced before the game

Japanese baseball team turn to robots for support

News Lens • 08 Jul

Debris litters a village following heavy rain in Kumamura, Kumamoto, Japan

Rain pounds central Japan as 61 feared dead in south

World • 08 Jul

Japanese households were the most pessimistic about the economy in more than a decade, a new survey shows

Japan households most pessimistic in over a decade

Business • 07 Jul

A collapsed road caused by heavy rain in Kuma, Kumamoto prefecture

52 dead in Japan floods as more troops join rescue

World • 07 Jul

A collapsed house lies on a street in Hitoyoshi, Kumamoto prefecture

Dozens dead, missing after heavy rain in Japan

World • 05 Jul

Roads have been cut off by floods and landslides

14 feared dead as heavy rain lashes western Japan

World • 04 Jul

The UK has just six weeks to finish negotiating a post-Brexit deal with Japan, Tokyo's chief negotiator has warned

Six weeks for trade deal with UK - Japan negotiator

Business • 23 Jun

Nissan plans to cancel all night shifts at its plant in Oppama and at a production line in Kyushu between June 29 and July 31

Nissan plans more shift cuts at Japan car plants

Business • 19 Jun

Japan's GDP contracted by 0.6% in the three months from January to March compared to the previous quarter

Japan economy better than feared but still in recession

Business • 08 Jun

Our average field of vision while staring down at a phone is estimated to be 5% of what our eyes take in normally

Japanese city may ban looking at phones while walking

World • 01 Jun

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