With the recovery tenuous, deflation afflicting all levels of commerce and the country at risk of sovereign debt crisis, it seemed an odd time for Japan’s biggest and...

In Japan, being thin isn’t just the price you pay for fashion or social acceptance. It’s the law. So before the fat police could throw her in pudgy purgatory, Miki...

A JAPANESE man has sued a hospital, arguing it unnecessarily gave him an artificial rectum after misdiagnosing him as suffering rectal cancer, a hospital official...

In the best traditions of “Wolf Creek”, a movie inspired with unsolved criminal mystery of the sixties, a Northern Territory tourist destination once again...

Taiji reveals its Janus face as soon as you emerge from the road tunnel on the town’s periphery. Bottlenoses leap out of the water in unison at the aqua park, where...

In the country with the lowest birth rate in the world, the newly empowered Democratic Party of Japan has proposed a solution: pay to procreate. As part of the...

Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama promised economic revival and strong US ties, hours after taking office. In a news conference, he vowed to deliver a...

Yukio Hatoyama, the leader of the Democratic Party of Japan, has caused alarm in Washington after publishing an article blaming the US for the ills of capitalism, the...

Reporting from Hyakuri, Japan - Crouched in his lush green rice fields on this agricultural plain northeast of Tokyo, Masaru Umezawa works the land as his father and...

Japan’s next prime minister might be nicknamed “the alien,” but it’s his wife who claims to have had a close encounter with another...

apan’s newly empowered leader Yukio Hatoyama rushed Monday to select Cabinet ministers after his party trounced the ruling conservatives in elections, sending...

The new chief executive of one of Japan’s larger companies sat up late into the night recently puzzling over the accounts. He simply could not work out why there...

Japan announced Thursday it would freeze assets of North Koreans in compliance with new UN sanctions for their links to Pyongyang’s nuclear programme, an official...

Japan’s love hotels are attracting interest from more than just couples looking for a place to spend a few private hours. Investors are also interested; this...

apan’s ruling party defeated a no-confidence motion Tuesday against the prime minister’s Cabinet, but an increasingly bold opposition used the occasion to...

Is any UN legislation in place as Russia is going to dig up Helium on the Moon in 2015 and Japan has found Uranium recently?

Japanese unemployment rose to its highest in almost six years in May, raising concerns over the recovery of the world’s second-largest economy. The unemployment...

The stigma attached to walking down the aisle even very late into a pregnancy is evaporating in Japan, with dekichatta-kon weddings accounting for almost one third of...

Japan’s Ethics Organization of Computer Software (EOCS) has decided not to allow the sale of rape games in the country. The decision came after protest from American...

Japan’s sprawling Mitsubishi conglomerate has cornered a 40 per cent share of the world market in bluefin tuna, one of the world’s most endangered fish. A...