Japan

A Japanese man has admitted to killing at least 30 green sea turtles after they got stuck in his fishing nets.

A US exploration team has managed to successfully unearth a ship that had sunk during World War II

An extremely rare 15ft megamouth shark washed ashore in a village in the Philippines.

A court in Japan in its latest order has upheld the ban imposed on same-sex marriage in the country stating that the ban does not violate the constitution.

A 23-year-old woman named Noura Aly Essam, was kidnapped by her own father after she inherited a fortune in her grandfather's will.

An 83-year-old Japanese man named, Kenichi Horie, has reportedly become the oldest person in the world to complete a solo voyage across the Pacific Ocean.

Kane Tanaka, a Japanese woman certified as the oldest person in the world by the Guinness World Records in 2019, passed away at the age of 119 at a hospital in Fukuoka city.

A body of a child has been discovered during search and rescue operations initiated after a boat accident in northeastern Japan. The death toll in the accident has reached 11 now.

Ten people who were found by rescue workers after a tour boat went missing off Japan's northern coast have been confirmed dead by the coast guard.

An ultra-rare giant squid, measuring about 9.8ft, washed up at a beach in Japan. The squid was found stranded at Ugu beach in Obama of Fukui Prefecture on Wednesday.

Japan's largest food chain Yoshinoya has fired its managing director Masaaki Ito following a backlash over his alleged sexist remarks.

Over 2 pounds of hand-rolled Japanese green tea leaves sold for a record-breaking 1.96 million yen (£11,881) at the season's inaugural auction on Monday.

Japan's Princess Mako who gave up her royal status to marry her commoner boyfriend Kei Komuro, is now reportedly working at the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art in New York as a volunteer.

Murray will continue playing doubles with Joe Salisbury

Japanese sponsors Rakuten and Konami were particularly enraged by the incident.

Antoine Griezmann and Ousmane Dembele were caught mocking Asian hotel workers on video

Foreign visitors to China will have to undergo an anal swab test or give a stool sample to test for COVID-19.

Japanese visitors in Beijing confirmed with the embassy that they were subjected to the mandatory anal swab for COVID-19 testing.

This man offers his "do nothing" services in Japan, and people are actually paying him just to eat, drink or listen to them.

YouTuber Logan Paul is ordered to reimburse the 3M licensing deal he made with Planeless Pictures for a 2016 film.

Any adult can don these masks and they would look like another person, depicting the face of an unnamed Japanese adult.

The machine gives visitors peace of mind knowing that a book that they take out from the library would be free of viruses.

The city of Saitama spent about £107,000 on matchmaking services in 2019 and saw 21 couples make it to the altar

Comments on social media accused Nike of exaggerating the scale of discrimination in Japan

The positive figures come after three quarters of contraction in the world's third-largest economy.

The man died just one year into his sentence for trying to smuggle 2.1 kilograms of amphetamines into the country.

The proposed paper bags pose less of a health risk for Japan's treasured Nara deer that tend to eat them

The new statue on Awaji Island may be a few metres short of the movie version, but it is the tallest off-screen structure ever built

The coronavirus pandemic may further affect the Olympics as scheduling conflicts continue to arise.

Drunk women have also been found in a state of undress passed out on sidewalks,curbs and in the middle of the roads.