The older brother of Kim Jong-un has been assassinated at an airport. This is why the North Korean dictator might have wanted him dead.

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.

US President Trump and Russian President Vladi­mir Putin discuss coordinating on ISIS and Syria, Kremlin says.

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.

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.

Toshiba Corp. plunged by the most on record as the once heralded US nuclear renaissance turns into a nightmare for the Japanese company.

Shinzo Abe's historic visit to Pearl Harbour with Obama punctuates the Obama's multi-year effort to prod Japan and its neighbours to decrease tensions.

Real-time voice translation between Japanese, English, Chinese and Korean will be tested in Tokyo taxis.

Air New Zealand will operate services to a second airport in Tokyo from next year.

More young Kiwis are considering travelling to Asia for that big OE.

An attractive companion will send you text messages throughout the day to ask how you are, and welcome you home with a kind word in the evenings.

Worlds with the mass of Neptune are the most likely planet to form in the icy outer realms of planetary systems, scientists have found in a pioneering new study co-authored by Kiwi researchers.

If you've been to Tokyo, you know the garbage collection system is no joke. Now there's an app to help foreigners understand it.

Sony has quietly dispatched a rival game to Pokemon Go with a popular mobile game called Fate/Grand Order.

Competition in Japan's online shopping market is intensifying.