The latest provocation coincides with annual exercises between the US and South Korean militaries.

Japanese leader and his wife struggle to distance themselves from school at centre of firestorm.

Kiwi children, aged 9 to 18, have revealed how much pocket money they receive.

An Auckland export cider company is moving to Hawke's Bay and selling shares to help make the move.

The Kiwi snowboarder, who died in a Japan avalanche is remembered as a caring man with infectious energy.

A New Zealand ski guide who died after being swept away by an avalanche in Japan was a much-loved and selfless man who lived life to the full.

A 35-year-old New Zealand man killed while reportedly snowboarding in an off-limits area.

Former ARU boss says Argentina, Japan and a South African team should be dumped from Super Rugby - but don't touch the Aussie teams.

In Tokyo's crowds, Winston Aldworth, finds the small things matter a great deal.

Analysts are now speculating about the possibility that Toshiba will have to file for bankruptcy.

In a plot fit for a spy novel, North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un's half-brother has been killed in Malaysia.

A hotel in Japan is defying the digital books trend and appealing to guests who prefer to curl up with a traditional paper book.

Obliged to hold lost items for three months, police departments in Japan are struggling to handle the rising number of unclaimed umbrellas.

Ballistic missile launch Pyongyang's latest provocation and first test under Trump.

In at least some of these calls, according to some accounts, the American leader lived up to his reputation for straight-talking and bombastic rhetoric.

A Japanese airline has launched a special flight service that allows passengers to fly with their dogs in the main cabin.

The old Japanese-style squat toilets that many foreigners find difficult to use are still commonly found around Japan.

Young Australian complained of a sore leg. Doctors said it was a hip issue. Days later she was dead.

A lion has bitten two keepers as they bathed him in an enclosure in Japan.

Trade Minister Todd McClay is starting to look at options for TPP but opponents say it is time for a major shift in thinking.

New Zealand will join Japan, Australia and Singapore in exploring the survival of the TPP without the United States.

A Japanese fortune teller brainwashed a client into prostitution and lived off her earnings.

The once-popular Hokutosei sleeper train was "revived" as a hostel in the Nihonbashi Bakurocho area of central Tokyo.

New Zealand 'disappointed' at Japan's latest whaling foray into the Southern Ocean.

New Zealand Police have helped a grieving Japanese family to visit the Te Urewera site where their relative died in a fire nine years

Conservation group Sea Shepherd have photographed a Japanese whaling ship with a dead whale in protected waters.

The baying of young males on the wind, and the distant, delighted squeals of young girls on the pull, told me the New Year was imminent

China's growth is slowing, but its cities still battle over tall towers and speed records.

A Japanese man engaged in an epic sulk and refused to talk to his wife for 20 years after she upset him despite still living together.

The head of Japan's largest advertising agency has said he will resign following the "death by overwork" of a young employee who put in hundreds of hours in overtime.