With legs resembling tree trunks and packing the body weight of two average-sized men, sumo wrestling's 'Great Sandstorm' would seem a good fit for the wildly popular Japanese sport.

But Egypt's Abd

Japan has deployed missile batteries in Tokyo and dispatched destroyers carrying interceptor missiles as it boosts its defences against a planned North Korean rocket launch this month.

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Japanese Finance Minister Jun Azumi said on Saturday Japan would hold high-level talks with China over contributions to the International Monetary Fund to help ease the eurozone debt crisis ahead of a

Foreign Ministers of China, Japan and South Korea have met to discuss among other issues, the tensions generated by the planned satellite of North Korea and chart a future course of action on cooperat

The U.S. Coast Guard unleashed cannon fire on Thursday at a Japanese vessel set adrift by last year's tsunami, stopping the ship's long, lonely voyage across the Pacific Ocean.

A Coast Guard cutter f

Japan was expected to pass a 90.3 trillion yen ($1.1 trillion) budget on Thursday, with about half the spending financed by new bonds that will add to Japan's massive debt mountain.

The country's rul

About 12 tonnes of radioactive water has leaked at Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, with the facility's operator saying on Thursday that some may have flowed into the Pacific Oc

The U.S. Coast Guard plans to use explosives to sink a derelict Japanese ship dislodged by last year's massive tsunami.

The shrimping vessel, which has no lights or communications systems, was floati

A typhoon-strength storm brought travel chaos to Japan on Tuesday, as violent winds and rain killed at least two people and left tens of thousands of people stranded.

Gusts of up to 150 kilometres (9

A moderate earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale hit sea off Japan's Fukushima prefecture on the Honshu island Sunday, said Japan Meteorological Agency(JMA).

The epicentre of the temblor, whi