Airport staff used a car to chase it away and closed the runway again, with the bear still at large somewhere in the facility ...

Yamagata Airport in Higashine, Japan closed its runway after a black bear was seen roaming the area. Officials attempted to ...

Twelve flights were canceled Thursday as airport employees chased the bear around the runway, an airport official said. The ...

FILE - A passenger arrives from overseas at the arrivals hall of Haneda international airport in Tokyo, Nov. 8, 2021. Japan will lift its coronavirus border controls and no longer require entrants ...

Japan companion robots help the lonely smile and patients in recovery during COVID’s isolating times 05:54 "As cliched as it sounds, just being back in Japan after all this time is what I am ...

TOKYO -- Japan's border control measures were greatly eased on Tuesday, including the elimination of the ban on individual tourists from abroad. Haneda Airport in Tokyo and Narita Airport ...

About 32 million tourists visited Japan in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic. Their return is welcome for good reason. Many will have more spending power because the Japanese yen has declined in ...

Although inbound tourism to Japan is picking with the easing of COVID-19 border controls, a dire shortage of ground staff at airports is hampering the airline industry’s post-pandemic recovery.

Japan is already seeing an increase in inbound travellers since relaxing its COVID-19 border controls last week, but a full recovery will remain elusive until China opens up, said the head of the ...

From Tuesday, Japan will reinstate visa-free travel to dozens of countries, ending some of world's strictest border controls to slow the spread of COVID-19. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is ...

The International Organization for Migration (IOM), in partnership with the Government of Sri Lanka and with generous support ...

FILE - A passenger arrives from overseas at the arrivals hall of Haneda international airport in Tokyo, Nov. 8, 2021. Japan will lift its coronavirus border controls and no longer require entrants ...