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WATCH: Japan Airlines plane hits jet loaded with relief material for earthquake affected, turns into fireball

All 379 passengers and crew on board the Japan Airlines plane that caught fire at Tokyo's Haneda Airport have escaped from the aircraft

Watch: Man rams car into barricade leading to Israel embassy in Tokyo; one cop injured

The motive behind the incident and whether the embassy was specifically targeted remain unknown. The vicinity of the embassy is often subject to demonstrations protesting Israel's actions in Gaza, leading Japanese police to establish barricades in the area.

How the world’s newest island was formed in Japan this October

The unnamed Japanese island, roughly a kilometre from Iwo Jima, was created by an underwater volcanic eruption. According to experts, magma had been developing beneath the surface for some time before its ultimate eruption on 30 October

G7 foreign ministers plan talks with Ukrainian counterpart this week, pledge support

The Group of Seven wealthy nations - Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States - as well as the EU will meet in Tokyo on November 7 and 8 to discuss matters including Russia’s war in Ukraine and the Israel-Gaza crisis that threatens to spill into a regional conflict

Amid North Korea’s growing threat, Tokyo holds first missile evacuation drill in years

The participants, wearing bibs, were divided into groups at a train station and a park. When the test missile alert was sounded, police and disaster prevention officials with loudspeakers hurried the groups to designated shelter areas where they crouched down with their hands over their heads

Alcohol banned at Tokyo Halloween hotspot a year after Seoul stampede

Nearly 160 people were crushed to death in a narrow alleyway in Seoul on 29 October, 2022 after tens of thousands of people poured into the Itaewon neighbourhood for holiday festivities

Japan eyes fifth spot in elite space club, ‘moon sniper’ to attempt landing on lunar surface tomorrow

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) mission is scheduled to take off from the Tanegashima Space Centre in southern Japan on Thursday, according to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, which oversees launches for JAXA and has built the H-IIA rocket carrying the lander

Japan says no radioactive isotope found in fish near Fukushima nuclear plant

Nets were set up on Friday when plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Company began releasing treated radioactive water into the Pacific, angering fishermen and many others in Japan, alarming consumers in neighbouring countries and prompting China to ban Japanese aquatic products

'A world without nukes': All eyes on Japan's Hiroshima as G-7 leaders arrive for summit

Japan's Hiroshima, the site of the world's first atomic attack at the end of World War II, is hosting leaders of seven of the most influential countries in the world for the G7 summit. They will discuss a wide range of issues, including economic policy, security, climate change, energy and gender

Taiwanese airline founder travels to Japan to apologise to stranded passengers

Chairman of Starlux Airlines Chang Kuo-Wei travelled all the way to Tokyo’s Narita Airport in Japan earlier this week to apologise to the 308 stranded passengers due to the delay of a scheduled flight