India's Saina Nehwal moved into the women's singles semifinal of the Japan Open Super series badminton with a 21-17, 21-13 defeat of Singapore's Juan Gu here on Friday.

Saina, seeded fourth, coasted

It's eight in the morning in a Tokyo office building, and a dozen middle-aged Japanese businessmen sit inside small booths, sweating as they try to talk English to the instructors in front of them.

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A powerful typhoon smashed into disaster-ravaged Japan on Wednesday, having already killed at least four people, less than a month after a vicious storm left 100 dead.

More than a million people in Japan were warned to leave their homes on Tuesday as an approaching typhoon brought heavy rain and fears of landslides and flash flooding.

Typhoon Roke, packing winds of

Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda is set to emphasise the continuing need for nuclear power plants in Japan and will pledge to ensure the highest level of operational safety during the upcoming U N confer

Vishnu Vardhan made an impressive Davis Cup debut but lost the must-win first reverse singles of the play-off tie to Kei Nishikori here on Sunday, which relegated India to Asia/Oceania Zone Group I an

Honda Motor plans to set up its first assembly plant in Russia, the Nikkei business daily reported on Sunday, as Japan's No.3 automaker looks to lift its competitiveness in the fast-growing auto marke

Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna kept India alive in their Davis Cup World Group play-off against Japan with a 7-5, 3-6, 6-3, 7-6(4) victory in the doubles against Tatsuma Ito and Yuichi Sugita here

Yuichi Sugita produced an amazing mix of scintillating power and precision to outwit India's No.1 Somdev Devvarman 6-3,6-4,7-5 and give Japan a 1-0 lead on the opening day of their Davis Cup World Gro

India faced relegation to the Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone after Somdev Devvarman and Rohan Bopanna lost their singles rubbers, handing Japan a 2-0 lead on the opening day of the World Group play-off t