A 7.2 magnitude earthquake rocked Taiwan on Wednesday, the strongest tremor to hit the island in at least 25 years, killing one person, injuring dozens and...
North Korea fired short-range ballistic missiles into the sea on Monday for the first time in two months, as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited...
Afghanistan’s State Ministry for Disaster Management has announced that Turkey and Japan will train 60 technical employees of the ministry in the field of natural disaster...
Japan successfully launched its new H3 flagship rocket on Saturday, putting its space programme back on track after multiple setbacks including the failure of the rocket’s...
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) on Friday announced that the government of Japan has contributed $13.5 million for the people of Afghanistan The...
Misako Takahashi, the Deputy Special Representative of Japan for Afghanistan, called on IEA Deputy Foreign Minister for political affairs Sher Muhammad Abbas Stanekzai. Takahashi underscored a...
A delegation from the World Health Organization (WHO) in Afghanistan, led by Dr Luo Dapeng, recently visited Japan to discuss strategic directions for the ongoing partnership....
Japan on Saturday became the fifth country to put a spacecraft on the moon, but solar power issues threatened to cut short the nation’s mission to...
A powerful earthquake and tsunami struck central Japan and its western coast on Monday, triggering warnings for residents to evacuate, knocking out power to thousands of...
Tadamichi Yamamoto, the former head of UNAMA in Afghanistan, and his accompanying delegation, met with Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, the deputy minister of foreign affairs, on...
Acting Minister of Interior Sirajuddin Haqqani met on Sunday with the delegation of Sasakawa Peace Foundation of Japan in Kabul, the ministry said in a statement. The delegation...
Abdul Salam Hanafi, the administrative deputy prime minister of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA), met on Sunday in Kabul with the Japanese ambassador and a...
A retired Japanese engineer has traveled to Afghanistan to help revive and continue the humanitarian work of Tetsu Nakamura, a doctor who was killed four years...
Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai met on Monday with Takayoshi Kuromiya, the Japanese ambassador to Afghanistan. In this meeting, Karzai stressed the need for strengthening good...
A U.S. military aircraft with eight people onboard crashed into the sea in western Japan on Wednesday with fishermen reporting three people had been found but...
North Korea has notified Japan it plans to launch a satellite between Wednesday and December 1, in what Tokyo and Seoul said could be a third...
Acting Minister of Education Habibullah Agha met with former Japanese Ambassador to Afghanistan Takashi Odaka and his delegation this week where they discussed issues around the...
The government of Japan announced Tuesday that it will provide $4.46 million to help the victims of the earthquakes that struck western Afghanistan. In a statement,...
In a farewell meeting with the Japanese ambassador Takashi Okada, acting deputy prime minister for administrative affairs Abdulsalam Hanafi called Japan’s role and cooperation important in...
A memorandum of cooperation was signed this week between the Embassy of Japan in Kabul and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) for the purpose of...