While it has already been announced that India and Japan will not sign a civil nuclear agreement during the Prime Minister’s current visit, the fact that Japan, with its known views on doing business

With Japan playing hard ball in the negotiations on the civil nuclear deal, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday said he would not "force" it on Tokyo as he recognises its sensitivity on the subjec

Criticising China's irate response to awarding of Nobel Peace Prize to jailed dissident Liu Xiabao, exiled Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama on Monday said Beijing must transform itself into a trans

A Japanese coastguard helicopter crashed into the sea on Wednesday after apparently hitting offshore power lines, leaving its five crew missing, a coastguard official said.

The son of Yoshiro Mori, former Prime Minister and political heavyweight of Japan’s once-dominant Liberal Democratic Party, was arrested over drunk driving, the police said on Saturday.

A militant group linked to Al Qaeda claimed responsibility for last week’s attack on a Japanese supertanker in the Strait of Hormuz, a US-based intelligence organisation said.

Twitter’s 20 billionth message didn’t make much sense, but it spoke volumes about the rapid global growth of the microblogging service.

Japan will start talks with India over a civil nuclear energy deal, foreign minister Katsuya Okada said on Friday, a move that would give Japanese firms access to the rapidly growing market amid rising global competition.

The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency on Tuesday said it has applied the Guinness World Records to recognise one of its spacecraft’s first-ever trip to an asteroid and its long duration of flight

Japan’s Parliament installed Naoto Kan as the new Prime Minister on Friday, handing the outspoken populist the job of rallying his party and reclaiming its mandate for change ahead of elections next m