Japanese women are no longer the world's longest living, their longevity pushed down in part by last year's devastating earthquake and tsunami, according to a government report Thursday. The top of th

A US military fighter jet crashed into the sea off northern Japan on Sunday, Japanese public broadcaster NHK reported.

The F-16 jet crashed off Nemuro, some 1,000 kilometres (620 miles) north of Toky

Japan's health ministry said it would investigate reports that workers at the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant were urged by a subcontractor to place lead around radiation detection devices in o

A second nuclear reactor has begun working in Japan, officials said on Thursday, the day after its operator was ordered to examine a possible active tectonic fault directly under the plant.

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Flood-hit evacuees in Japan began returning to their homes to begin a massive clean-up operation on Monday after record rainfall forced hundreds of thousands to flee and left at least 32 dead or missi

Japan recalled its ambassador to China for consultations on Sunday amid a simmering row between the Asian powers over disputed territory in the East China Sea, reports said.

Almost a quarter of a million people were ordered to leave their homes in southwest Japan on Saturday as heavy rain pounded the area for the third day, with 20 already dead, officials and reports said.

Japan appealed on Wednesday to resume whaling along its coasts but faced heated opposition from Western and Latin American countries, which accused it of trying to end a moratorium on a commercial hun

Japan ended two months without nuclear power on Thursday when the No. 3 unit at Kansai Electric Power Co's Ohi plant became the first reactor to resume supplying electricity to the grid since a nation

The nuclear accident at Fukushima last year was a ‘man-made disaster’ and not only due to the tsunami, a Japanese parliamentary panel said on Thursday in its final report on the catastrophe.

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