Parents living near Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant are facing a nightmare dilemma: evacuate their children or live with the fear that radiation will make them sick.

Since the crisis started

Japanese high-tech maker Hitachi said on Wednesday it is considering shifting all television production to foreign outsourcing firms by March as part of a broad strategy to increase profitability.

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A strong 6.4-magnitude earthquake shook northeast Japan's Fukushima prefecture, home to a crippled nuclear power plant, early Sunday, but there was no risk of tsunami, seismologists said.

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Japan on Friday denied that a government project to monitor online news reports and Twitter posts about the Fukushima nuclear crisis was an attempt to censor negative information and views.

Some West

Japan's Sony said on Thursday it swung to a net loss in the fiscal first quarter on the impact of the March 11 earthquake, and cut its profit forecast by 25 per cent on weak TV sales and a strong yen.

A Japanese railway company was on Wednesday ordered to compensate train drivers and staff for forcing them to clean toilets and cut weeds as punishment for train delays and other lapses.

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Toyota Motor Corp said on Wednesday it would spend an additional 17.2 billion yen ($220 million) to boost output capacity in India to 310,000 vehicles a year in 2013, in its second announcement of an

Japan's Honda Motor said on Monday it would recall about 2,00,000 passenger cars globally due to defective engine parts.

The company said it had received 63 customer reports in Japan of engine malfun

A strong 6.5-magnitude earthquake hit northern Japan on Saturday, but there was no danger of a tsunami, the weather agency said.

The quake happened at 1:34 p.m. (0434 GMT) off the Pacific coast of Mi

A 32-year-old Japanese man was on Thursday sentenced to life imprisonment for raping and killing British teacher Lindsay Ann Hawker in 2007, before burying her battered body in a sand-filled bathtub.