A major 7.0-magnitude earthquake rocked Tokyo and surrounding areas on Sunday, Japan's Meteorological Agency said.

"The quake struck at 2:28pm (05:28 GMT)," the agency said, adding that there was no

The eldest son of North Korea's late leader Kim Jong-Il has secretly visited Pyongyang to pay his last respects. Kim Jong-Nam's absence from a state funeral and other official events related to his fa

A former member of Japan's Aum Supreme Truth doomsday cult, which was responsible for the 1995 nerve-gas attack on the Tokyo subway, was arrested on Sunday after almost 17 years on the run, police sai

Japan's retired double Olympic judo gold medallist Masato Uchishiba was indicted Tuesday on charges of raping a teenage girl at a Tokyo hotel.

Uchishiba, 33, who won the 66kg title at the 2004 and 20

Support for Japan's prime minister plunged in December as voters lost faith in his leadership, amid party turmoil and criticism over his handling of the nuclear crisis, a poll said Monday.

The share

Japan's response to the nuclear crisis that followed the March 11 tsunami was confused and riddled with problems, including an erroneous assumption an emergency cooling system was working and a delay in disclosing dangerous radiation leaks, a report revealed on Monday.

The Japanese government is considering a dollar swap arrangement with India to provide emergency liquidity in case the European debt crisis reaches emerging economies, the Nikkei business newspaper sa

Japan's biggest carmaker Toyota expects a 20 per cent growth in global sales in 2012 after a dismal 2011 on the domestic front when the march 11 earthquake and tsunami hit demand.

The automaker expec

Japanese prosecutors raided Olympus Corp units on Wednesday in connection with a huge accounting scandal that has threatened the existence of the 92-year-old maker of cameras and medical equipment, Ja

The euro was rangebound against the dollar in Asian trade on Wednesday despite an earlier boost from an unexpected uptick in German business sentiment and a successful Spanish bond auction.

The euro