A Japanese media announcer has dared posing for nude pictures and released them on her company's homepage, Sports Nippon reported on Friday. Kana Mitsutaka, 45, a veteran announcer working for ...

Japanese company Space One's first attempt to make the country a contender in satellite launches ended in fire, smoke and debris after the Kairos rocket exploded shortly after its launch on Wednesday.

Space One’s ‘Kairos’ rocket burst into flames shortly after lift-off in western Japan on Wednesday. The explosion left a large plume of smoke in the air and sent fiery debris flying near the ...

Japan was forced to blow up its new rocket during a failed launch on Tuesday, setting back efforts to crack a market led by Elon Musk's SpaceX. Its space agency had to send a self-destruct command ...

Tokyo, Sept. 16 (Jiji Press)--Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. said Monday that the launch of the 49th unit of the H-2A rocket from a Japanese space center, scheduled for the afternoon on the day ...

TOBISHIMA, Aichi Prefecture--Japan’s space agency and its prime contractor said Thursday they hope to be able to forge a profitable launch business with their new H3 rocket after its first ...

Japan's space agency aborted the inaugural launch of its next-generation H3 rocket on Friday after the auxiliary booster engines failed to ignite, officials said. The main engine of the rocket ...

Japan launched the Kaguya spacecraft on a mission to the moon. Formally known as SELENE, which is short for SELenological and ...

TOKYO, Sept. 16 (Xinhua) -- The scheduled launch of an H2A rocket carrying an information-gathering satellite from a space center on a southwestern Japan island was postponed on Monday for a ...

North Korea says it will attack the Japanese military and "major targets," if Japan shoots down a rocket Pyongyang plans to launch in the coming days, North Korea's state-run news service ...

(Mainichi) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The scheduled launch of an H2A rocket carrying an information-gathering satellite from a space center on a southwestern Japan island was postponed on Monday for a ...