Toyota on Thursday denied a press report that it was to begin selling cars in India priced at around $6,000 as the Japanese auto giant looks to boost its share of the country's growing affordable car

The world's tallest tower and Japan's biggest new landmark, the Tokyo Skytree, opened to the public on Tuesday.

Nearly 8,000 visitors were expected to take high-speed elevators up to the observation

Japan was hit by two shallow earthquakes in the space of just eight minutes on Sunday, one of them measuring a strong 6.2-magnitude, but there were no reports of damage and no tsunami alert.

The 6.2-

Toshiba said on Thursday it has stopped making televisions in Japan, citing slow domestic demand as falling prices, fierce global competition and a strong yen pressure the country's electronics makers

Canon Inc. is moving toward fully automating digital camera production in an effort to cut costs a key change being played out across Japan, a world leader in robotics.

If successful, counting on ma

The assembly in a western Japanese town that hosts a nuclear plant agreed on Monday it was necessary to restart two off-line reactors, its chairman said, the first such nod since all the country's sta

Seven people were killed and three injured on Sunday when a fire broke out at a hotel in southwestern Japan, a media report said.

The fire occurred at Hotel Prince in Fukuyama city at around 7 a.m.

Japan's current account surplus halved in the year to March, a record year-on-year fall on higher fuel costs and weak exports, and the nation's smallest surplus since the mid-1990s.

Japan logged a su

Japanese electronics giant Sony on Thursday posted a massive full-year loss of $5.7 billion, but vowed it would swing back into the black in 2012 as it embarks on a massive restructuring plan.

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Toyota Motor said on Wednesday its net profit for the year to March 2013 was expected to more than double to 760 billion yen ($9.53 billion) on continued demand in emerging markets.

Toyota also said