Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Japanese PM Shinzo Abe decided Wednesday to accelerate talks on a civil nuclear deal to let Japan export nuclear reactors to India and to bolster maritime security co

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will visit Tokyo later in May to expand India’s strategic partnership with Japan and discuss a bilateral civilian nuclear cooperation agreement.

More than a dozen earthquakes, one of them magnitude 6.2, rocked a volcanic island south of Tokyo today, the national meteorological agency said.

US secretary of state John Kerry said today he would be making a stop on the way home from a 10-day overseas tour to visit the family of a young diplomat killed in Afghanistan.

Readers eager to lay their hands on the new novel by Japan’s Haruki Murakami have only a few hours to wait until they get their latest fix of one of modern literature’s most talked-about authors.

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said Wednesday there was no place for vigilantes in the battle against drug violence, insisting the kind of development seen in Japan was the answer.

Officials in the Japanese city of Yokohama were left red-faced today after mistakenly announcing the launch of a North Korean missile to 40,000 followers on Twitter.

The utility that operates Japan’s crippled nuclear plant says it deserves most of the blame for the crisis, in the company’s strongest remarks about its own shortcomings.

Engineers at Fukushima today partly succeeded in getting cooling systems back online after a power outage underlined the still-precarious state of the nuclear plant two years after the tsunami.

Toyota Motor will recall 2,09,000 sport utility vehicles it has sold in the United States due to a possible seat-belt fault, Kyodo News reported today.