China has dispatched two patrol ships to 'assert its sovereignty' over islands at the centre of a row with Japan, state media said on Tuesday, as Tokyo completed its purchase of the disputed territory

Japan's Cabinet minister in charge of financial services and the privatization of the postal system was found dead at his home on Monday, police said.

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Japan's government has agreed to buy a group of islands at the centre of a territorial dispute with China, reports said Wednesday, a move likely to prove a further irritant in a tense relationship.

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A team of Japanese surveyors Sunday sailed to a group of disputed islands in the East China Sea which the nationalistic governor of Tokyo wants to buy amid a widening diplomatic row with China.

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Yoshie, Momoko, Risa, Daichi and Yusuke, five youngsters from Kuma-moto in Japan, never thought they would fall in love with Kerala’s traditions when they came to ‘God’s own country’, a few months ago

A female Japanese reporter has been killed after being caught in gunfire while covering clashes in Syria's northern city of Aleppo, the Japanese foreign ministry said on Tuesday.

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A 63-year-old former engineer may not fit the typical image of a dark-clad assassin with deadly weapons who can disappear into a cloud of smoke. But Jinichi Kawakami is reputedly Japan's last ninja.

Protests against Japan broke out in more than a dozen Chinese cities including Beijing on Sunday, as authorities allowed thousands of people to vent their anger over an escalating territorial row.

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Japanese nationalists landed on an island at the heart of a corrosive territorial row with China on Sunday in a move likely to further inflame tensions with Beijing.

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Japan was Thursday considering whether to prosecute or deport 14 people it arrested after pro-China activists landed on a disputed island, as Beijing angrily demanded their immediate release.