Japan Travel Agency

Naoko Yamazaki was selected to become the first mother and the second Japanese woman to travel into space, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said Tuesday. Yamazaki, 37, was chosen to board the US space shuttle Atlantis on a planned two-week ...

A Taiwanese fishing boat that was detained by the Japanese coast guard for allegedly trespassing into waters near Japan's Miyako Islands was released and heading home yesterday, the Fisheries Agency said. The Yungsheng No. 106 (@) from Suao ( ...