Japan will offer 10,000 foreigners free airfares to visit the country next year in an attempt to boost the tourism industry which has been hit by the ongoing nuclear disaster, a report said Monday.

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Japan has grounded its F-15 fighters for the second time in three months after a fuel tank and parts of a mock missile fell off a jet on a training mission, officials said on Saturday.

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Japan's biggest automaker Toyota said on Friday that it would begin exporting vehicles from India to South Africa next year as it looks to boost activities in emerging markets.

Under the plan, gasol

The Spanish duo of defending champion Rafael Nadal and former winner David Ferrer crushed local hopes on Tuesday to advance to the second round of the Japan Open.

World number two Nadal, playing his

Tokyo stocks closed 0.99 per cent higher on Thursday as the market welcomed a rebound in the euro ahead of a German parliamentary vote on the new euro zone rescue plan, brokers said.

A 5.6-magnitude earthquake shook an area of northeast Japan which includes the tsunami-crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant on Thursday but there were no reports of damage to the facility, officials

Maria Sharapova shrugged off last year's disappointing first-round exit as she got off to a confident start in beating Tamarine Tanasugarn in the Pan Pacific Open on Monday in Tokyo.

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Flammable gas has been detected inside a pipe linked to a nuclear reactor at Japan's crippled Fukushima atomic power plant, its operator said on Saturday.

Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) was unable t

India's Saina Nehwal was handed a shock 19-21, 10-21 defeat by Germany's Juliane Schenk in the women' singles semi-finals of the Japan Open Super Series badminton here on Saturday.

After a keenly fou

Japan launched a new spy satellite into orbit on Friday, officials said, in its latest effort to beef up surveillance against the threat of North Korean missiles.

The Japanese H-2A rocket carrying a