Toyota slashed its full-year net profit forecast by more than half on Friday as Japan's biggest automaker grapples with a strong yen, the impact of the March earthquake and record flooding in Thailand

Major Japanese food and candy maker Meiji Co. said it was recalling 400,000 cans of powdered milk for infants after traces of radiation from Japan's hobbled nuclear plant were detected in the formula.

A Japanese court has jailed a hospital worker for three years for tearing off the toenails of elderly patients at a hospital to relieve her own frustration.

Akemi Sato, who worked as an assistant at

The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant is considering dumping water it treated for radiation contamination into the ocean as early as March, the firm said on Thursday, promptin

Radioactive water from the tsunami-hit Fukushima nuclear power plant may have leaked into the Pacific Ocean, the plant operator has said.

The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) said that around 45

A committee probing a massive cover up of losses at Japan's Olympus is to unveil its report on Tuesday, and is expected to blame two former company presidents for approving the scheme, reports said.

An outing of luxury sportscar enthusiasts in Japan ended in an expensive freeway pileup - smashing a stunning eight Ferraris, a Lamborghini and two Mercedes likely worth more than $1 million together.

A fresh leak of radioactive water into the open ocean has been discovered at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear complex, its operator said on Monday as cleanup efforts continued.

Crews were dispatche

Japanese regulators will not extend a deadline for Olympus to report its financial results, sources with knowledge of the matter said, leaving the scandal-hit company with less than two weeks to corre

The embattled operator of Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has released workers' accounts of the desperate moments surrounding the huge earthquake and tsunami that triggered an atomic crisis.