The 50th and final liftoff of Japan's H-2A rocket launched the GOSAT-GW satellite on Saturday, June 28, 2025.

Japan Hangs 'Twitter Killer' In 1st Execution Since 2022 Takahiro Shiraishi had been sentenced to death for his 2017 strangling and dismembering of eight women and one man in his apartment near Tokyo.

World News Japan executes ‘Twitter killer’ who murdered and dismembered 9 people in his apartment By Associated Press Published June 27, 2025, 5:34 a.m. ET ...

The execution by hanging of a man convicted of killing nine people in Japan comes amidst a growing debate over the country's use of capital punishment.

Japan executes 'Twitter killer' who murdered and dismembered nine people Takahiro Shiraishi, known as the "Twitter killer," was sentenced to death in 2020 for the killings in 2017 of the nine victims.

Japan executed a 34-year-old death row inmate known as the "Twitter Killer," who was convicted of killing nine people at his apartment south of Tokyo in 2017.

Death Stranding 2: On the Beach for PlayStation 5 and the remake of ToHeart for Switch and PC are the highlights of this week’s Japanese video game releases.

Nearly 80 years after they were captured and killed in the final days of World War II, dozens of U.S. airmen were honored with a solemn ceremony.

Brig. Gen. James Dooghan, an Afghanistan war veteran, assumed command of U.S. Army Japan at Camp Zama.

A Chinese fighter jet came within about 150 feet of a Japanese naval reconnaissance plane over the weekend, the Japanese Defense Ministry said Thursday, an action the US ambassador to Tokyo called ...

Japan is seeking to reduce by 80 per cent in the next decade its estimated 298,000 death toll from a potential megaquake in the Nankai Trough.

Microsoft has announced via Xbox Live Japan that the remaster of the first Gears of War game, Gears of War: Reloaded, will not get a Japanese PS5 release. However, the title will still come to ...