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

Above a road through a forest hangs a long, thin suspension bridge resembling a power line.

Foreigners don't have all the answers, but they are responsible for Japan's biggest corporate governance successes this year, writes William Pesek.

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.

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?

His yukata is comfy but the traditional clogs cause a few problems for Lincoln Tan in Kinosaki.

This cute ginger kitten has obviously never heard of the phrase “curiosity killed the cat”.

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.

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.

Mentor fully understands how difficult it is to raise today's young girls to full-fledged maiko.

If perfect ski snow is your passion this is the Japanese destination for you, but don't count on admiring the scenery, writes David Lewis.

Fish passengers have been found off the Oregon coast in the wreckage of a boat that appears to be debris from the 2011 Japanese tsunami.

Ninja, anime, and colourful customs collide at Japan Day, where old and new meet, finds Sarah Ell.

A university museum in Japan has broken a seven-decade taboo on discussing the dissection of live American prisoners of war by medical personnel.

On the fourth anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan, Isaac Davison finds a community that's battered but unbowed.

Twentieth-century tragedy provides a moving lesson in post-war recovery during a visit to Japan's Hiroshima, writes Josh Martin.