Learning slurping skills keeps Kevin Pilley busy as he dries out amid the world's largest collection of pot noodles.

There is a race taking place between some of the big names of car making - Japan's Toyota and Honda and their Asian neighbour Hyundai - and a smaller camp led by the tech visionary Elon Musk.

Work to create rules for putting self-driving vehicles into practical use is kicking into high gear as progress continues on the development of such vehicles.

Paintings drawn by a 21-year-old woman with Down syndrome are enjoying widespread popularity in Japan.

Children living near the Fukushima nuclear meltdown site have been diagnosed with cancer at a rate of up to 50 times that of children elsewhere.

Why are toilet paper sales soaring in Japan despite a falling population?

Authorities are grappling with the aftermath of massive flooding that killed at least three people, as thousands of rescuers search for the missing.

After almost four years of delays, the Mitsubishi Regional Jet will make its debut flight in the second half of October.

The crowd sat entranced as 78-year-old Emiko Okada recalled the horrifying events of August 6, 1945, a day that started hot and cloudless.

Seventy years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, New Zealand must take the lead on banning lethal weapons, writes Dita De Boni.

This city's horror was 70 years ago, but the memories will never leave, says Kevin Pilley.

If there is one event that defines the modern world, it is the blinding, searing, radioactive explosion over the city of Hiroshima 70 years ago today.

Seventy years on, the feared nuclear Armageddon has been kept in check - but a new threat is mounting, writes Alexander Gillespie.

It was a warm summer's morning and 5-year-old Yukiko Nakabushi was the first to arrive at nursery school. She waited for her friends to arrive. Except they never came.

Photo of "mutant" flowers taken near the Japanese nuclear plant that went into meltdown after tsunami .

At a time when more people marry later on in life or stay unmarried, matchmakers, traditionally called nakodo in Japan, have been gaining public attention again lately as the nation's population continues to decline.

Toshiba's CEO and two other top executives resigned after presiding over a US$1.2 billion accounting scandal. Well and good, but when do we see some criminal indictments?

A brooding expression, rippling muscles, a lingering gaze ... and, er, a habit of beating his chest.

Japan lacks safety nets for its urban drifters, even in Tokyo’s most glamorous districts, writes Simon Scott.

A Japanese robot capable of interpreting human emotions will go on sale for the first time this weekend.

Eat your fill in Osaka where food is a 24-hour obsession, recommends Lincoln Tan.

When it comes to corporate governance, Japanese companies Takata, Toshiba, Sharp and Toyota are acting as if it's 1985.

Japan's Infrastructure Ministry has announced that the country's elevators may soon have a surprising new feature: Toilets.

Japan wants its workers to work fewer hours to cut down the number of people pushing themselves into an early grave.

Hundreds of scientists have rallied against a new Japanese proposal to kill whales in the name of research — a plan one New Zealand marine biologist calls whaling in disguise.

How have things fared since then for Asia's "Axis of Reform"? Not very well, unfortunately, says William Pesek.

Four years on from the Fukushima nuclear disaster - brought about by a devastating earthquake and tsunami - Tomioka remains a desolate place.

A 23-year-old Canadian woman was given the shock of her life after unexpectedly giving birth on a flight from Canada to Japan on Sunday.

In Northern Japan, Kelly Lynch sips crisp chilled sake from tiny tin cups in an izakaya.