Hotaru Yamaguchi, Hiroshi Kiyotake and Yosuke Ideguchi taking on 100 schoolchildren on a full-sized football pitch may be in evidence today

Test your memory of the 2026 Fifa World Cup group stages with our quiz after Canada became the first nation to reach the last 16.

Indian content creator Dev Vijay Vargiya has gone viral after describing his first-day experience in Japan as a “premium subscription to Earth.” His video highlights cleanliness, convenience store culture and urban order,

North Korea on Monday condemned the ongoing Resolute Dragon joint military exercise between Japan's Ground Self-Defense Forces and the U.S. Marines as a rehearsal for war.

China expanded its export-control offensive against Japan, doubling the number of Japanese entities subject to curbs and deepening a feud with Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s government.

Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft is preparing for one of the most daring asteroid encounters ever attempted by a sample-return mission. On July 5, the veteran probe will speed past the near-Earth asteroid Torifune at an extremely close distance,

Japan deploys AI police chief to tackle record $2bn fraud epidemic - Known as AIko, the AI ‘police chief’ has been introduced as part of a campaign to combat increasingly sophisticated scams

Japan has protested activity by Chinese coast guard vessels asserting Beijing’s claims to maritime borders close to a southern Japanese island, Tokyo’s top government spokesman said, days after Tokyo scrambled fighter jets in response to flights by Chinese and Russian bombers around Japan’s south.