A mugger who attacked a woman in Japan fled empty-handed -- and with one finger missing -- after the intended victim chomped off his pinkie.

The 59-year-old woman fought back after a man snatched her

More than 20 schools in Koriyama city in Fukushima Prefecture, home to the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, have 'hot spots' with high radiation levels on their premises, a civil group said.

The last working reactor in Japan is to be switched off on Saturday, leaving the country without nuclear power just over a year after the world's worst atomic accident in a quarter of a century.

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A Japanese power firm began switching off the country's last working reactor, leaving it without nuclear power just over a year after the world's worst atomic accident in a quarter of a century.

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At least seven people were killed and 39 others injured on Sunday when their bus bound for Tokyo Disneyland crashed on a highway near the Japanese capital, a police spokesman said.

The bus carrying 4

India will ferry two foreign satellites - French and Japanese - on board its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C21) rocket in August this year for a price, said a senior official.

"The next rocket

A nuclear plant in northwestern Japan may be sitting right on top of an active geological fault, the country's nuclear watchdog has said, raising the risk that the facility may never resume power gene

Japan said on Saturday it will forgive about 300 billion yen ($3.7 billion) of Myanmar's debt and resume development aid as a way to support the country's democratic and economic reforms.

The governm

In the suburbs of Tokyo lives Kenichi Ito, the world's fastest man on four legs.

For nearly a decade, the 29-year-old Ito, long a fan of simians, has been perfecting a running style based on the wiry

The IMF looks set to receive the $400 billion it needs to boost a global firewall and help stem Europe's debt crisis, Japan's finance minister said.

"I think it is becoming highly possible that we wi