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.

Organisers of an annual festival to showcase Japanese culture in Auckland has banned cosplay maids - saying they are "too sexy" for the family event.

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.

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.

Heartbreaking footage shows a mother dolphin trying desperately to save her calf from Japanese hunters who planned to sell the animals to aquariums.

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.

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.

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.