CNN — North Korea has fired at least one ballistic missile into the waters off the east coast of the Korean peninsula, according to South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS). Japan’s Coast Guard, citing information from the Ministry of Defense, announced that a projectile, believed to be a ballistic missile, was launched by North … Read more
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A move by Japan to provide Patriot air defence systems to Ukraine will have “grave consequences” for Russia-Japan ties, Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday. Relations between Moscow and Tokyo, already difficult, have deteriorated sharply since Russia sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine in Feb. 2022. Japan … Read more
Kyodo News/Getty Images/File An Osprey aircraft takes off from US military port facilities in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan on March 20, 2023. Tokyo CNN — At least one person was killed Wednesday after a US military Osprey aircraft crashed off the coast of Japan’s Yakushima Island in southern Kagoshima prefecture, according to a spokesperson from … Read more
Kyodo News/AP First responders take position outside the post office where a man is believed to holed up in Warabi, Saitama prefecture, north of Tokyo, on October 31, 2023. Tokyo CNN — A suspected gunman has barricaded himself in a post office in central Japan after two people were wounded and apparent gunshots heard in … Read more