Richard Lloyd Parry

Forgotten at home, Thomas Glover is so revered in Nagasaki for his part in the country’s industrialisation that he has been turned into a plushie

More than 150,000 people told to evacuate southwest town of Kashima amid tsunami warning, with at least 50 taken to hospital

The second floor of the shopping centre on the island of Kyushu collapsed, "leaving many people trapped inside", according to the local fire department.

The taboo on nuclear weapons after Hiroshima and Nagasaki appears to be dying out. Sanae Takaichi’s government is debating relaxing its principles

The US president wants to meet the North Korean dictator again this year. Persuading him to disarm may be doomed by an inconvenient truth

Sweeping measures announced by the city state mark a shift from a ‘procreation model’ to a policy that supports children through to adulthood

Sanae Takaichi’s official home has a ghoulish history, but it wasn’t the ghosts of predecessors murdered in the building that frightened her

Since 2004 an Islamic insurgency has engulfed the ‘Sultan provinces’ of the deep south, spoiling the country’s image as a paradise for tourists

Singapore will pay parents about NZ$91,000 for each of their children in the latest desperate measure by governments around the world to persuade young people not to abandon the idea of parenthood.

The behaviour of boars on Okunoshima is changing in the face of an abundance of bunnies, who may have sprung from a wartime laboratory