Japan's premier-designate Yoshihiko Noda on Monday vowed a safe pair of hands in rebuilding the country from its tsunami-nuclear disasters after he was elected the ruling party chief.

The low-key, bu

The race to pick Japan's sixth leader in five years was up in the air on Friday after media said ruling party powerbroker Ichiro Ozawa was unlikely to back former foreign minister Seiji Maehara, a se

A Japanese comedian and television host has quit show business over revelations of close ties with a senior yakuza gangster, amid an intensifying government drive to stamp out organised crime.

Japan's government estimates the amount of radioactive caesium-137 released by the Fukushima nuclear disaster so far is equal to that of 168 Hiroshima bombs, a news report said here on Thursday.

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He's a small, blue robot cat from the future who's been the inspiration for an animated TV series, served as Japan's cartoon cultural ambassador and is beloved around the world.

Now, the iconic Dorae

Moody's on Wednesday downgraded the sovereign rating of world's third largest economy, Japan, citing concerns about spiralling government debt.

Global rating agency Moody's has cut down Japan's ratin

Japan will have a successor to unpopular Prime Minister Naoto Kan early next week, a Cabinet minister said on Tuesday, as a former foreign minister emerged to vie for the leadership.

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An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 struck off Japan's northeast coast on Friday, triggering a tsunami warning, the Japanese Meteorological Agency said.

The quake, which swayed building

Japan on Friday issued a tsunami alert after a 6.8-magnitude undersea quake struck off the country's northeastern Honshu island, Xinhua reported.

Japan may have a new leader by the end of the month, its sixth in five years, newspapers said on Wednesday, as embattled Prime Minister Naoto Kan said he would resign soon.