Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio has called on his Vietnamese counterpart to unite in the response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Kishida met with Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh for about 90 minutes in Hanoi on Sunday.
A Japanese Self-Defense Forces aircraft has departed for Poland to deliver aid supplies to countries near Ukraine hosting people who fled the Russian invasion.
The SDF C-2 transporter left Japan Sunday morning.
Rescue workers are using remote cameras to search inside a tour boat that sank off the northern Japanese prefecture of Hokkaido.
The "KAZU I" went missing off the Shiretoko Peninsula during a cruise on April 23rd. 24 passengers and 2 crew members were on board.
Part of a human skull and a child's sneakers have been found in a mountain forest in Yamanashi Prefecture, west of Tokyo, where an elementary school girl went missing from a nearby campsite three years ago.
Police say the bone fragment appears to belong to a young person.
Sources say a tour boat that sank off the coast of Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido notified the Coast Guard of its troubles via a passenger's cell phone.
The 19-ton "KAZU I" went missing off the Shiretoko Peninsula in northeastern Hokkaido during a cruise on April 23 with 24 passengers and two crew members on board.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government reported 2,979 new coronavirus infections on Saturday.
The figure is down more than 2,400 from a week ago.
Japanese holidaymakers flocked to coronavirus testing locations in Tokyo for free tests before heading to their destinations.
Both the antigen and the PCR tests are available at about 870 venues and five major railway stations in the capital.
Rescue workers are using remote cameras to search inside a sightseeing boat that sank off the northern Japanese prefecture of Hokkaido.
The "KAZU I" went missing off the Shiretoko Peninsula during a cruise on April 23. Weather officials say waves were 3 meters high in the area when the vessel disappeared.
Japan Coast Guard officials are preparing to remotely examine a sightseeing boat found submerged in waters off Hokkaido Prefecture.
The "KAZU I" went missing off the Shiretoko Peninsula on April 23. There were 24 passengers and two crew members onboard.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government reported 3,893 new coronavirus infections on Friday.
The figure is down more than 1,500 from a week ago.
The Japan Coast Guard has confirmed that the object found on the seabed off the coast of Hokkaido in northern Japan is the tour boat that went missing on April 23.
The 19-ton "KAZU I" was carrying 24 passengers and two crew members. Fourteen people were confirmed dead as of Thursday. The others remain unaccounted for, and search operations are continuing.
Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio will arrive in Indonesia on Friday for a meeting with President Joko Widodo. The leaders are expected to discuss Ukraine and other issues.
Indonesia chairs the Group of 20 this year. But the country is facing difficulty handling different opinions on whether Russia should be allowed to attend G20 gatherings following its invasion of Ukraine. It is expected to seek Japan's understanding on its position regarding Russia's participation in G20 meetings.
The Japan Coast Guard has confirmed that the object found on the seabed off Hokkaido's Shiretoko Peninsula in northern Japan is the missing tour boat.
The boat, "KAZU I," carrying 24 passengers and two crew members, went missing off the Hokkaido coast on Saturday.
Okinawa Prefecture in southern Japan will mark next month the 50th anniversary of its return from the US rule following the end of World War Two.
Beacon fires appeared Thursday night on beaches in Okinawa and Kagoshima prefectures, which face each other across the sea, in a reenactment of a past practice held to pray for Okinawa's return.