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Staff of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) watch a live streaming of the pinpoint moon landing operation by the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) spacecraft observe a live streaming at JAXA's Sagamihara Campus Saturday, Jan. 20, 2024, in Sagamihara near Tokyo. Japan's space agency said early Saturday that its spacecraft is on the moon, but is still "checking its status." More details will be given at a news conference, officials said. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

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Japan becomes the fifth country to land a spacecraft on the moon
By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press
Fri,01/19/24-5:35AM , 157 Reads
TOKYO (AP) — Japan became the fifth country in history to reach the moon when one of its spacecrafts without astronauts successfully made a soft landing on the lunar surface early Saturday.
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CORRECTS DATE - Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, right, arrives at a Japan Air Self-Defense Force sub base in Wajima, Ishikawa prefecture, Japan Sunday, Jan. 14, 2024. Kishida visited the country's north-central region of Noto for the first time since the Jan. 1 quakes. (Kyodo News via AP)

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Japan's Kishida vows more funds to quake-hit zone as worry over diseases in evacuation centers rises
By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press
Sun,01/14/24-12:17AM , 248 Reads
TOKYO (AP) — Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said he was “speechless” by the severity and immense destruction of the disaster zone he saw during the helicopter ride on his first visit to the country's north-central region of Noto since the deadly Jan. 1 earthquakes, amid worries about spreading diseases in evacuation centers.
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A team of transport safety officials is searching for a voice recorder from the Japan Airlines plane, seeking crucial information on what caused a collision with a small coast guard plane on the runway at a Tokyo airport. AP correspondent Charles de Ledesma reports.

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Japanese safety experts search for voice data as workers clear plane debris from runway collision
By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press
Fri,01/05/24-2:37AM , 84 Reads
Transport safety officials searched for a voice recorder from the severely burned fuselage of a Japan Airlines plane, seeking crucial information on what caused a collision with a small coast guard plane on the runway at Tokyo's Haneda airport.
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Burnt Japan Airlines plane is seen at Haneda airport on Thursday, Jan. 4, 2024, in Tokyo, Japan. A transcript of communication between traffic control and two aircraft that collided and burst into flames at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport showed that only the larger Japan Airlines passenger flight was given permission to use the runway where a coast guard plane was preparing for takeoff. (Kyodo News via AP)

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The key question about fiery crash at Tokyo airport: Did one or both planes have OK to use runway?
By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press
Thu,01/04/24-9:28AM , 107 Reads
Passengers on Japan Airlines Flight 516 were buckled up and ready to land at Tokyo's Haneda Airport as their pilot made a final approach.
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