Embattled Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama resigned on Wednesday to improve his party’s chances in an election next month, after his popularity plunged over his broken campaign promise to move a

A Japanese woman has received a new lease of life after doctors in a Osaka hospital carried out what can be considered the world’s first successful double heart pump operation.

Almost everyone stood when the bride walked down the aisle in her white gown, but not the wedding conductor, because she was bolted to her chair.