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South Korea hunkered down for the arrival of Typhoon Haishen on Monday, after the powerful storm battered Japan's southern islands but appeared to pass through without major damage or casualties. ( read original story ...)

Dozens of people across Japan have stepped forward to confess to child pornography purchases and sales following an investigation into a supposedly secure overseas adult video website, sources said. ( read original story ...)

With many questions unanswered and scandals mounting, we investigate just how badly British athletes are faring ahead of the Tokyo games. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO • To pull off the first postponed Olympics in modern history, the Tokyo 2020 organisers have said they will strip out much of the spectacle that typically characterises the event.. Read more at ... ( read original story ...)

As Yoshihide Suga, the frontrunner to replace Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, contemplated his candidacy, he met a business leader to discuss what policies to focus on. “I want to continue ... ( read original story ...)

Typhoon Haishen battered Japan's southern mainland on Sunday with powerful winds and drenching rain, cutting power to tens of thousands of homes and prompting authorities to call for people to ... ( read original story ...)

The Latest on the U.S. Open tennis tournament (all times local): 11:15 a.m. The U.S. Open reaches its midpoint today under a sunny sky with temperatures topping ... ( read original story ...)

The authorities warned of record-breaking winds and rainfall from Typhoon Haishen, which has already brought down power lines and disrupted travel in the region. ( read original story ...)

World News Typhoon hits Japan with power outages. Posted . Typhoon Haishen drew closer to Japan's southern mainland on Sunday, cutting power and prompting authorities to recommend ... ( read original story ...)

A Tokyo man has been arrested on suspicion of kidnapping a 9-year-old schoolgirl he met through an online game and confining her f ... ( read original story ...)

Kanagawa Prefectural Police have arrested a 38-year-old man over the alleged abduction of a 9-year-old girl in Yokohama City last week ... ( read original story ...)

China protests in inner Mongolia have been ongoing since a new policy aiming to push Mandarin language education over ethnic minority groups ... ( read original story ...)

The second powerful typhoon to slam Japan in a week has unleashed fierce winds and rain on southern islands, blowing off rooftops and leaving homes without power as it edged northward into an area ... ( read original story ...)

A powerful typhoon began to lash southern Japan on Sunday, with officials warning it could bring record rainfall and winds strong enough to snap power line poles and flip cars. Typhoon Haishen, ... ( read original story ...)

Typhoon Haishen is bearing down on southern Japan and South Korea, and the storm's timing couldn't be worse. It will come on the heels of Typhoon Maysak, which made landfall in South Korea early ... ( read original story ...)

More than 200,000 people have been ordered to evacuate areas of Japan threatened by an approaching storm. Typhoon Haishen is expected to intensify on Sunday, bringing heavy rain, storm surges and ... ( read original story ...)