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

A 27-year-old sprinter who wants to represent Japan at the London Paralympic Games has stripped off for a calendar showcasing her finely-toned body -- complete with prosthetic leg.

Maya Nakanishi is

A spy scandal involving a Chinese diplomat working at the embassy in Tokyo looks set to cost a Japanese cabinet minister his job, a report said on Thursday.

Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda will sack hi

Japanese semiconductor maker Renesas Electronics Corp. is considering cutting up to 14,000 jobs or 30 per cent of its workforce as part of a major restructuring plan, news reports said on Saturday.

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Shoes containing human bones from people killed by the 2011 Japanese tsunami are likely to begin washing up on the US West Coast later this year, an expert has said.

Curt Ebbesmeyer, a retired oceano

A Japanese artist cooked his own genitals and served them to five paying diners in Tokyo to cover the medical costs, in a bizarre act to raise awareness about sexual minorities.

Mao Sugiyama had his

An earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale jolted Hokkaido island of Japan on Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said.

The temblor occurred at 3.02 p.m. GMT. It had its epicentre, wit

Japan was hit by two shallow earthquakes in the space of just eight minutes on Sunday, one of them measuring a strong 6.2-magnitude, but there were no reports of damage and no tsunami alert.

The 6.2-

Experts in Japan are warning of a doomsday scenario in which the Japanese could face extinction, if the current birthrate stays.

A study claims the last child will be born in 3011 and then the Japane

Japan's current account surplus halved in the year to March, a record year-on-year fall on higher fuel costs and weak exports, and the nation's smallest surplus since the mid-1990s.

Japan logged a su