Japan Airlines (JAL) will start using humanoid robots in ground handling tasks at Tokyo's Haneda airport from May, in a two-year trial it said is aimed at easing employees' workload. For a start, the Chinese-made robots will be deployed to load and unload cargo containers,

April 27 (Reuters) - China denounced remarks ⁠by ⁠Japan and the European Union about ⁠the South China Sea at a U.N. Security Council meeting on Monday and ​accused Tokyo of provocative behavior in the Taiwan Strait and planning military expansion.

Humanoid robots join Tokyo airport crews to move baggage, as Japan tests automation to tackle labour shortages through 2028.

An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.4 struck off Japan's northern coast, prompting a temporary tsunami alert across the region.

For nearly eight decades, Japan's renunciation of militarism was the cornerstone of Asia's post-war order. A single cabinet decision on the 21st of April has retired that architecture, and the pressures that produced it reveal as much about China's ambitions and America's unreliability as they do about Japan itself.

Authorities urged residents to stay away from coastal areas where tsunami waves of up to 10 feet were possible.

A powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck Japan's northern coast on April 20, but footage of a horse supposedly protecting its owner during the disaster shared online is actually AI-generated. The

If there's one country guaranteed to clean up at the World Cup, it's Japan. Scenes of Japanese soccer fans sweeping stadiums and picking up trash after a match first drew public attention in France in 1998 — Japan's first appearance in the World Cup.