A 5.5-magnitude earthquake hit Japan's Fukushima area on Monday, but a nuclear plant there that was crippled by a huge quake and tsunami in March remained stable, officials said.

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Japan will offer 10,000 foreigners free airfares to visit the country next year in an attempt to boost the tourism industry which has been hit by the ongoing nuclear disaster, a report said Monday.

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Japan has grounded its F-15 fighters for the second time in three months after a fuel tank and parts of a mock missile fell off a jet on a training mission, officials said on Saturday.

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A 5.6-magnitude earthquake shook an area of northeast Japan which includes the tsunami-crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant on Thursday but there were no reports of damage to the facility, officials

Flammable gas has been detected inside a pipe linked to a nuclear reactor at Japan's crippled Fukushima atomic power plant, its operator said on Saturday.

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Japan launched a new spy satellite into orbit on Friday, officials said, in its latest effort to beef up surveillance against the threat of North Korean missiles.

The Japanese H-2A rocket carrying a

It's eight in the morning in a Tokyo office building, and a dozen middle-aged Japanese businessmen sit inside small booths, sweating as they try to talk English to the instructors in front of them.

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A powerful typhoon smashed into disaster-ravaged Japan on Wednesday, having already killed at least four people, less than a month after a vicious storm left 100 dead.

More than a million people in Japan were warned to leave their homes on Tuesday as an approaching typhoon brought heavy rain and fears of landslides and flash flooding.

Typhoon Roke, packing winds of

Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda is set to emphasise the continuing need for nuclear power plants in Japan and will pledge to ensure the highest level of operational safety during the upcoming U N confer