Europe’s air-safety regulator has recommended that companies using material from Kobe Steel review their supply chains and — if alternative suppliers are available — and suspend purchases from the Japanese company that admitted to faking data about product strength.

Not all classes start with students standing and bowing to the teacher — but that’s what happens when teenagers come into Gretta Daly’s Japanese classes.

A restaurant fire has spread to at least 140 buildings in a small Japanese coastal city.

Japan’s economy is expected to have contracted slightly more than initially estimated in the final quarter of 2015, and ominously the outlook held little cheer as domestic and external demand has remained stubbornly weak at the start of this year.

It really looks like he might have burnt his house down.

Japan’s economy shrank at an annualised pace of 1.6% between April and June as exports slumped and consumers cut back spending, adding pressure on prime minister Shinzo Abe to step up his policy drive to lift the economy out of decades of deflation.

A boy who sustained horrific injuries after a Japanese fighting dog latched on to his arm as he tried to retrieve a tennis ball from a house garden has settled his High Court action for €65,000.

They’re making mochi - at an incredible pace.