An offshore quake with a magnitude of 6.2 shook northeast Japan on Thursday, swaying buildings in the capital Tokyo, but no tsunami warning was issued.

The quake struck at 5:00 pm (0800 GMT) off Ibar

India's No.1 and world-ranked 65th Somdev Devvarman will play 175th ranked Yuichi Sugita in the opening singles of the Davis Cup World Group play-off at the Ariake Colosseum here Friday.

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A hotel in Japan turns down young couples who come looking for a place to stay. This hotel has only ‘cold-storage’ rooms that too for the dead!

Situated in Yokohama, the Lastel hotel though looks muc

Suzuki Motor is likely to locate a planned $1.3 billion passenger car factory in Gujarat, Japan's Kyodo news agency said on Wednesday, as the automaker looks to expand capacity in its key market.

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Japan's new Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda on Wednesay said he was concerned about China's military build-up, urging his giant neighbour to act as a "responsible member of the international community".

The national weather agency plans to issue an initial tsunami warning without an estimate of how high the waves would be, in the event of a massive earthquake measuring magnitude 8 or higher, agency o

Thousands of people remained stranded in western Japan Tuesday as the death toll from a fierce typhoon rose to 42, heaping more misery on a nation recovering from the March earthquake and tsunami.

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Powerful Typhoon Talas left a trail of heavy rainfall and mudslides as it moved northward past Japan on Sunday. At least six people have died and 20 others are missing, local media said.

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A typhoon that pummelled western Japan left at least 17 people dead and 43 missing on Sunday after swollen rivers swept away buildings and landslides crushed houses.

One of the victims drowned to dea

Yoshihiko Noda became Japan's sixth new Prime Minister in five years on Tuesday, starting a term in which he must push quake recovery, contain a nuclear crisis and revive the economy.