Sunny review: excellent paranoia-soaked thriller based on novel by Killarney writer Colin O’Sullivan
Television: Full points to Apple for achieving peak menace from a standing start
Television: Full points to Apple for achieving peak menace from a standing start
Pact sets the stage for ‘interoperability exercises’ between the two nations
Strange deconstruction of beautiful game believes ego is the defining characteristic of a special striker. You don’t get that in Escape to Victory
Roger Crowley explores how ‘restless Europeans’ such as Spain and Portugal created a global ‘maritime belt’ of trade and empire
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Japan will soon have the third-largest defence budget in the world after the US and China
Latest data shows number of Japanese nationals falling by almost 100 an hour on average despite government efforts
Despite the pursuit of hard fact, the nature of reality is illuminated by Eastern thought as much as it is by atomic theory
Formed by the three countries in 2021, Aukus is part of efforts to push back against China’s power
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Magnitude 7.3 quake topples dozens of buildings and leaves others tilting, particularly in eastern county of Hualien
Central bank sets new policy rate range of up to 0.1%, ending most aggressive monetary stimulus programme in modern history
Japan’s LDP is one of the most successful political parties in the world, holding power since 1955. Could scandal finally hurt it?
The Japanese director’s new film tells a story more slippery than that of Anatomy of a Fall. Pay attention throughout
Whether in Nobody Knows, Shoplifters or Like Father, Like Son, the Japanese auteur can dramatise children’s inner lives like no other film-maker
Rónán Hession reviews a selection that includes an impressive work by International Booker Prize winner Georgi Gospidinov
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Fully clothed women will take part in hadaka matsuri, in which thousands of men dress in next to nothing to drive away evil spirits
Shinji Aoba (45) broke into Kyoto Animation’s building, doused the entrance area with petrol and set it alight
Dubbed the ‘moon sniper’, Slim is now operating on its battery which lasts only for ‘a few hours’
Aftershocks threaten to bury more homes and block roads crucial for relief shipments
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Anton Deibe (17) was aboard with his family when it collided with a Coast Guard plane on Tuesday
New Year’s Day quake killed at least 78 people on country’s northwest coast
Death toll rises to at least 65 after earthquake that struck Noto peninsula on New Year’s Day
All 379 people on board Japan Airlines flight escaped after it erupted in flames, but five Coast Guard crew were killed in collision
Airline says all 367 passengers and 12 crew disembarked in under 20 minutes after Airbus A350 collided with coast guard aircraft
Japan Airlines plane collides with Coast Guard aircraft
Rescue operation in Ishikawa Prefecture is being hindered by buckled roads, and death toll is expected to rise
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