Japan anger at stray sub
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THE detection of a foreign submarine in Japan&#39;s southern coastal waters threatens to aggravate tensions between Tokyo and Beijing.
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Japan was on alert after a suspected Chinese nuclear submarine entered its territorial waters, setting off a chase on the high sea amid mounting disputes between the Asian powers.
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New Zealand warns Japan to get its stricken ship out of Antarctica or risk an international backlash.
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BEIJING (Kyodo) Japan lodged a protest Saturday with North Korea over Pyongyang&#39;s investigations into 10 Japanese citizens whom Tokyo maintains were abducted, and handed over its report concluding that materials provided by the North do not support its
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A Japanese whaling ship and protest  vessels have collided in the Southern Ocean, with the  protesters saying they will next ram a Japanese factory ship,  despite Australian calls for them to back off before someone is  killed.
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An unidentified submarine was found in the Japanese waters Wednesday morning, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda said. The submarine was spotted in Japan&#39;s territorial waters
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The owners of a Japanese quake-hit nuclear plant admit a radioactive leak was worse than previously reported.
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China acknowledged today for the first time that one of its submarines had accidentally crossed into Japanese waters last week and expressed regret over the incursion, Japanâs foreign minister said.
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There is a military alert in Japan after an unidentified submarine is detected inside the country's waters.
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China has admitted that its submarine intruded into Japanese waters last week and apologized over the incident, Japan's top government spokesman Hiroyuki Hosoda told a news conference Tuesday.
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PM Junichiro Koizumi says Japan is not satisfied with North Korea's explanations over Japanese it kidnapped.
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TOKYO - China has admitted one of its nuclear submarines entered Japanese waters last week and expressed regret, according to Japanese media.
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TOKYO -- China expressed regret today over what it called an accidental incursion by one of its submarines into Japanese waters last week, Japan&#39;s foreign minister said, the first time Beijing has acknowledged the submarine was one of its own.
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Japan says it will file a protest with the Chinese government after one of its submarines intruded into Japanese territorial waters.
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Water containing some radioactive materials leaked from a nuclear power plant in Japan after a strong earthquake Monday, a spokesman for the firm running the facility said.
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Japan protested to China on Friday after  concluding that a nuclear-powered submarine that intruded into  its waters this week belonged to the Chinese navy.
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TOKYO : Japan is enraged at North Korea for allegedly lying about the deaths of two of its citziens the Stalinist state kidnapped, with commentators warning the deception has set back the chances of reconcilation with the outside world.