Hot spring summit between Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin can be start of 'win-win' relationship.
Pyongyang coastguards 'grossly violated' international law but were they in search of food and cigarettes?
Hunt is on in Japan to find lost descendants of the Siberian-born chemist and inventor.
Defence Ministry move seen as bolstering Russia's eastward tilt.
Russian sailors pulled him to safety after ten hours in the waves.
Thousands had joined petition to stop Shilka the cub being exiled to the other side of the world but she could be gone by end of the month.
Strategic bombers redeployed Eastern Military District in snap exercises called by Vladimir Putin.
Ten fishermen were plucked to safety after their vessel - Chance-101 - sank 31 miles east of Svetlaya village, in Primorye region in the Russian Far East.
The Japanese government is to provide financial assistance for a joint helium-production project, says newspaper The Daily Yomiuri.