Dozens of protesters shouted and danced at the gate of a nuclear power plant set to restart on Sunday, the first to go back online since all reactors were shut down for safety checks following the Fuk

South Korea postponed on Friday the signing with Japan of an agreement to share sensitive military information in the face of anger over a pact with a former colonial ruler that critics say was negoti

South Korea will soon sign a military agreement with Japan for the first time since Tokyo's brutal colonial rule ended in 1945, a report said on Wednesday.

The pact -- named the General Security of M

Nissan Motor is cutting its production in Japan by 15 per cent from July in a response to surging manufacturing costs driven by a stronger yen and weakening domestic demand, reports said on Thursday.

A powerful typhoon bringing heavy rain and strong winds was expected to make landfall in western Japan later on Tuesday, the weather agency said, as flights were cancelled and evacuations advised.

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Britain's biggest retailer Tesco announced on Monday that it had finally struck a deal to exit its Japanese business.

Tesco said in a statement that it would exit Japan in two stages -- first by sell

A 6.4-magnitude undersea earthquake on Monday jolted the sea area off the east coast of Honshu, the main island of Japan, US seismologists said, but no tsunami alert was issued.

The US Geological Su

Japan ordered nuclear reactors back online Saturday, defying public sentiment against atomic power following last year's meltdowns at Fukushima sparked by the quake-tsunami, reports said.

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The former president of Fukushima plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co faces questioning for the first time on Friday by a high profile investigative panel seeking to uncover the causes of the world

A huge floating dock cast adrift by Japan's killer tsunami has washed up on an Oregon beach, believed to be the biggest pieces of flotsam to make landfall on the US West Coast so far.

The 66-foot (20