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Among the top 10 are a handful of cities in western Europe, a famous US location and one lucky Australian city.

An Australian who was jailed in Tokyo last month will fight to have his convictions overturned in what his lawyers argue was a misunderstanding involving a language mix-up.

Fourteen students at a Japanese high school have been taken to hospital after eating "super spicy" potato chips, local authorities have reported.

PM Christopher Luxon and a group of prominent business leaders were en route to Tokyo for a summit with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.

One worker posed as a tiger while others used a net and simulated tranquillisers to capture the escapee.

The eight-hour standoff is being investigated in relation to a shooting at a hospital earlier in the day.

The two passenger aircraft involved belonged to EVA Air and Thai Airways and are thought to have come into contact with each other near a taxiway at around 11 a.m., NHK reported on Saturday morning.

Sydney has been named the best city in the world to live, by a survey conducted by Brand Finance.

Images captured by a robotic probe inside one of the three melted reactors at Japan's wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant showed exposed steel bars in the main supporting structure and parts of its thick external concrete wall missing.

Aussie travellers are gearing up for overseas trips to escape the winter cold - and these destinations are rocketing up search lists.

You don't have to be an experienced traveller to recognise some of the world's most iconic landmarks. But can you identify them from above?

Starting in April, families in the Tokyo metropolitan area will be eligible to receive 1 million yen ($11,089) per child.

The Seven Seas Explorer by Regent Cruises cost $680 million to build, which includes a $9 million art collection featuring pieces by Picasso and Changall.

A man set himself on fire near the Japanese prime minister's office in Tokyo early Wednesday in apparent protest against the state funeral planned next week for former leader Shinzo Abe, officials and media reports said.

Taiwan says it detected "multiple" Chinese aircraft and naval vessels taking part in military drills around the Taiwan Strait on Saturday.

Japan hanged three death-row inmates on Tuesday, its first executions in two years, amid growing criticism by human rights groups of the country's use of the death penalty.

Swedish retailer Ikea is becoming a landlord in Japan with a tiny apartment it will rent out in Tokyo.

A man dressed in a 'Batman' Joker costume and brandishing a knife on a Tokyo commuter train stabbed several passengers before starting a fire.

Trains were halted and more than thirty people injured after a magnitude 5.9 earthquake hit the Tokyo area on Thursday night.

Lost Judgment is an exciting, mystery-thriller full of twists and turns and a heavy sprinkle of quirky, Japanese culture.

Toyota will restart its operations of its self-driving vehicles at the Paralympic Games village in Tokyo following an accident.

The Paralympics began Tuesday in the same empty National Stadium as the opening and closing ceremonies of the recently completed Tokyo Olympics.

While the Paralympics Games are on their way, once they are over, Japan has plans for the spectacular venues it used for the Olympics.

Ten people were stabbed Friday night on a train in Tokyo by a man with a knife, according to the Tokyo Fire Department.

All the best photos of Australians in action and other events.

The Olympics are set to end on Sunday with the iconic closing ceremony - though as with everything about the Tokyo 2020 Games, the COVID-19 pandemic will have an impact.

Aussies who win gold at Tokyo 2020 will feature on a new series of stamps released by Australia Post.

The virus-delayed Tokyo Summer Olympics finally opened Friday night with cascading fireworks and made-for-TV choreography that unfolded in a near-empty stadium in a strangely subdued ceremony that set a striking tone to match a unique pandemic Games

All the best images from the National Stadium in Tokyo, Japan as the Olympic Games Opening Ceremony takes place

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and Brisbane's Lord Mayor will make a final pitch for the games this afternoon before a decision at 6.30pm AEST.

After a 12-month delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Tokyo Olympics finally get underway this week.

Ms Palaszczuk has flown out of Australia overnight, arriving in Japan for controversial talks with Olympic leaders.

The signs triggered harsh criticism on social media, with one Twitter user tweeting "Apartheid has been revived in Japan."

Nine reporter Christine Ahern has hit the ground running in Japan for a very different style of Olympic Games.

Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews has taken another shot at the premier over her Tokyo Olympics trip, despite her pushing to halve foreign arrivals.

Two Olympic Village workers in Tokyo have been revealed to have tested positive for COVID-19 days before the village opened to athletes.

Police in Japan have charged a woman after she allegedly tried to extinguish the Olympic flame with a water pistol during the official torch run.

The Queensland Premier has defended her decision to fly to the Tokyo Olympics this month, as an online petition trying to stop her surpasses 30,000 signatures.

A year later than expected, much like the actual Olympics, the official 2020 Tokyo Olympics video game has pole-vaulted onto shelves. 

The pandemic has caused a shakeup to the world's most liveable cities list, with four Australian capitals making it into the top 10.

Australia's athletes will be given priority for the COVID-19 jab ahead of the Tokyo Olympics.

Even as fireworks lit up the skies over Washington DC, troops patrolled the streets to guard against a feared attack from extremists.

Japan has declared a state of emergency for Tokyo and three nearby areas as coronavirus cases reached a daily record of 2447 in the capital.

Japanese scientists have developed a new astronomical instrument that they hope will explain the huge number of metals in space and the role they play in the universe.

Authorities in Japan's capital reported nearly 500 new cases of the coronavirus on Wednesday, the largest daily increase in Tokyo since the pandemic began

This was going to be a big year for Japan. With the Summer Olympics due to be hosted in Tokyo, the island nation expected 40 million tourists to grace its shores.

Britain has accused Russian hackers of targeting this year's Tokyo Olympic Games, with the aim of causing disruption.

A thousand Japanese civilians working at two United States Marine Corps bases on Okinawa have been tested for coronavirus, as the US military institutes more stringent screening measures to stop the virus spreading on the island.

Ongoing economic crises, the coronavirus pandemic, political turmoil and protests have impacted the cost of living in the world's priciest cities

Two Australians are among 10 people with coronavirus on board a cruise ship in Japan, with other Aussies on board told they have to stay in their cabins for 14 days.