A 27-year-old sprinter who wants to represent Japan at the London Paralympic Games has stripped off for a calendar showcasing her finely-toned body -- complete with prosthetic leg.

Maya Nakanishi is

Sony shares tumbled below 1,000 yen for the first time since 1980 as the Tokyo stock market plunged early on Monday following a dismal performance from Wall Street and amid global economic concerns.

A spy scandal involving a Chinese diplomat working at the embassy in Tokyo looks set to cost a Japanese cabinet minister his job, a report said on Thursday.

Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda will sack hi

Scandal-hit Japanese camera maker Olympus is in separate talks with Sony and Panasonic for a possible tie-up as it looks to rescue itself after a huge losses cover-up, a report said on Wednesday.

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Japanese regulators are probing JPMorgan for its alleged role in a high-profile insider trading case, Dow Jones Newswires reported Wednesday, the latest bad news for the embattled US investment bank.

Japan is hoping to cash in on its rich culture by recreating fashionable districts of Tokyo in foreign cities, determined that enclaves of vibrant shops, cafes and restaurants can find new markets abr

Japanese semiconductor maker Renesas Electronics Corp. is considering cutting up to 14,000 jobs or 30 per cent of its workforce as part of a major restructuring plan, news reports said on Saturday.

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Drug major Ranbaxy Laboratories on Friday said it has hired two US-based consultants to advise it on remedial work to be done at its manufacturing units in India as part of a consent decree signed wit

A Japanese artist cooked his own genitals and served them to five paying diners in Tokyo to cover the medical costs, in a bizarre act to raise awareness about sexual minorities.

Mao Sugiyama had his

An earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale jolted Hokkaido island of Japan on Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said.

The temblor occurred at 3.02 p.m. GMT. It had its epicentre, wit