TEHRAN, August 31 -Japan remains firmly committed to seeking US exemption for Iranian oil imports as it sees the supplies as important for the country's energy security and businesses, a top government official told S&P Global Platts on Thursday.
TEHRAN, August 29 - Japanese police are investigating the deaths of four elderly patients at a hospital in heat-struck central Japan after the air conditioning failed in their rooms.
TEHRAN, August 28 -Japan’s minister of economy, trade and industry says the country’s refiners need to make their own decisions as to whether import oil from Iran.
TEHRAN, August 27 - North Korea has expelled a Japanese tourist who had been detained by authorities on unspecified charges, the official Korean Central News Agency said late Sunday.
TEHRAN, August 26 - Japanese Prime Minster Shinzo Abe has announced he would run in his ruling party’s leadership election, which could turn him into Japan’s longest-serving premier.
TEHRAN, August 23 - An approaching typhoon has whipped up strong winds, waves and heavy rain in southern South Korea, leaving one person missing and one injured, while another typhoon headed for western Japan on Thursday.
TEHRAN, August 17 - Japan on Friday described as "extremely regrettable" a call by U.N. human rights experts for greater protection of workers cleaning up its damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, and said it had notified U.N. officials of its reaction.
TEHRAN, August 15 - Emperor Akihito, in his last appearance as reigning monarch at an annual ceremony marking Japan's World War Two surrender, expressed "deep remorse" over the conflict, while Prime Minister Shinzo Abe vowed never to repeat the horrors of war.
TEHRAN, August 15 - The main meteorological service of Japan said Wednesday that there was a possibility of a strong volcano eruption on the island of Kuchinoerabu.
TEHRAN, August 12 - Tens of thousands of protesters in Okinawa vowed to stop the planned relocation of a US military base, saying they w ant it off the southern Japanese island entirely.
TEHRAN, August 10 - Japan's weather bureau said on Friday there is a 60 percent chance that an El Niño weather pattern could emerge during the northern hemisphere autumn, from September to November.
TEHRAN, August 6 - Japan is marking 73 years since the United States dropped a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, with tens of thousands of people taking part in a solemn and emotional ceremony to honor the victims of the world’s first ever atomic attack.
TEHRAN, July 30 - Japan said Monday it would spend some $4.2 billion over the next 30 years on installing and operating US radar systems to protect itself against North Korean missile threats.
TEHRAN, July 29 - A powerful storm slammed into Japan on Sunday, bringing heavy rain as it churned across western areas already hard hit by floods and landslides earlier this month.
TEHRAN, July 28 -- More than 100 flights were canceled in Japan and residents already reeling from deadly floods sand-bagged rivers and prepared for more evacuations as a powerful typhoon neared on Saturday.
TEHRAN, July 25 -Japan is seeking an early exemption from the US on its sanctions against Iran as among the highest priority for the country's energy security as well as local refiners' need for Iranian oil, a top government official told S&P Global Platts Tuesday.
TEHRAN, July 25 - Japan is seeking an early exemption from the US on its sanctions against Iran as among the highest priority for the country's energy security as well as local refiners' need for Iranian oil, a top government official told S&P Global Platts Tuesday.
TEHRAN, July 24 - An "unprecedented" heatwave in Japan has killed at least 65 people in one week, government officials said Tuesday, with the weather agency now classifying the record-breaking weather as a "natural disaster."
TEHRAN, July 22 -Japan's severe heat wave killed at least 15 people and sent more than 12,000 to hospital in the first two weeks of July, official figures show as the temperature neared 40 degrees C (104 F) in many cities on Sunday.
TEHRAN, July 22 -Anti-mine units from the U.S. Navy, the Japan Maritime Self Defense Forces and the Indian navy began mine countermeasure exercises near Ominato, Japan, this week.