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The investigation into how a Japan Coast Guard aircraft and a passenger plane collided Tuesday at Tokyo's Haneda Airport is underway, with Japan's transportation ministry already appearing to place blame on the pilot of the smaller coast guard plane. CBS News senior foreign correspondent Elizabeth Palmer has more.
First responders in Japan are struggling to reach the areas worst affected by Monday's string of powerful earthquakes that killed dozens of people and destroyed thousands of homes. As CBS News' Elizabeth Palmer reports, efforts to reach the areas by air continue despite Tuesday's dramatic plane crash at Tokyo's main airport.
All 379 occupants of the Japan Airlines flight got out safely and the pilot of the coast guard plane also escaped, officials said.
All 379 occupants of Japan Airlines flight JAL-516 got out safely before the plane was entirely engulfed in flames after colliding with a coast guard aircraft at Tokyo's Haneda Airport, according to the Japanese transport minister, Tetsuo Saito. Five crewmembers on the coast guard plane died, Saito said. CBS News foreign correspondent Lucy Craft reports from Japan, and Robert Sumwalt, a CBS News transportation safety analyst, looks at some of the safety features that may have contributed to the outcome on the passenger jet.
Within minutes, all 367 passengers and 12 crew members slid down emergency chutes to get away from the plane. "I can only say it was a miracle," one survivor said.
Dozens killed in earthquakes in Japan; 2024 travel forecast.
At least 48 people have been killed by a powerful set of earthquakes that rocked western Japan Monday. CBS News senior foreign correspondent Elizabeth Palmer has more.
Five members of Japan's coast guard are dead after a fiery collision with a passenger jet at Tokyo's Haneda Airport Tuesday, Japanese officials said. CBS News' Lucy Craft has more.
Japan's leader says workers are "fighting a battle against time" to rescue people trapped in rubble after a series of powerful earthquakes.
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.6 prompted a tsunami warning on New Year's Day.
Powerful earthquakes off central Japan's west coast damaged homes and prompted tsunami warnings on Monday. Residents were urged to seek higher ground.
It's been a lean year for bears in Japan. A dry summer has left them with little to eat in the country's forests, so they have become bold and ventured into environments closer to humans. Bears have also moved into rural areas as humans leave them, causing a bear resurgence. All this has led to a record-high number of bear attacks. Elizabeth Palmer speaks with a biologist studying this phenomenon.
There have been a record 193 bear attacks in Japan this year, six of them fatal. It's the highest number since counting began.
A $14 billion deal for Japan's Nippon Steel to buy out U.S. Steel is facing stiff opposition. CBS Pittsburgh money and politics editor Jon Delano examines the details of the sale — and why lawmakers oppose it.
North Korea test fired a long-range ballistic missile Sunday night with the potential to hit the United States, according to Japan's defense ministry. South Korean officials say the missile was launched near the capital of Pyongyang, traveling east and flying over 600 miles before falling into the sea. The BBC's Jean Mackenzie has more.
South Korea and Japan say North Korea has test launched a missile likely among the most powerful, long-range weapons in its arsenal, the Hwasong-18 ICBM.
A U.S. Navy officer serving a three-year prison sentence in Japan for a deadly 2021 car crash is now being returned to the United States, his family said Thursday.
She earned enough in real estate to buy a pad in Florida, but Tomo-chan returned to her family farm outside Tokyo, determined to show struggling youngsters "they're not forgotten."
The U.S. Air Force is grounding its entire fleet of Osprey aircraft after learning that a crash last week may have been caused by an equipment malfunction.
The U.S. military identified all eight Air Force crew members on an Osprey that crashed on Nov. 29 off the shore of Yakushima Island, Japan.
A large part of the fuselage of a U.S. Air Force CV-22 Osprey that crashed almost a week earlier has been found with 5 crew members' bodies inside, the Air Force confirmed.
Renowned for dependable hospitality and ritualized etiquette, Japan now has one restaurant where the service is dependably, defiantly atrocious. At the Lazy House in Nagoya, the dining experience is turned on its head, with a cranky and petulant staff dishing out insults while tossing dinner plates. Correspondent Lucy Craft checks out why the rude restaurant, launched last summer, has become an instant comic hit on social media.
As the search for 7 crew members continues after a U.S. military Osprey crashed into the sea, Japan says it's "concerned" the U.S. is still flying the planes.
Search and rescue operations are still underway after a U.S. military Osprey crashed off the coast of Japan Wednesday. CBS News senior foreign correspondent Elizabeth Palmer has more on the crash and Japan's calls for the U.S. to stop flying Ospreys.
A U.S. Air Force Osprey aircraft crashed into the ocean near the Japanese island of Yakushima with 8 people on board, and at least 1 was killed.
Conservative activist and Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk died Wednesday after he was shot at an event at Utah Valley University.
President Trump will be at the ceremony at the Pentagon.
Conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed on Wednesday while speaking an event at Utah Valley University. Authorities have not identified a suspect.
The ICE raid that swept up 300 South Koreans in Georgia has strained an important bilateral relationship, and highlighted a significant challenge.
Today's CPI report marks the last major piece of economic data before the Federal Reserve's Sept. 17 rate decision meeting.
Britain's Ambassador to the U.S., Peter Mandelson, has been fired by Prime Minister Keir Starmer over "the depth and extent" of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
Former Vice President Kamala Harris' book, "107 Days," will detail her sprint of a race for the presidency.
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On a rare trip back to the U.K., devoted mostly to charity events, Prince Harry may have begun the reconciliation with his family he's said he wants.