Buenos Aires: One of the closest contests in Olympic history was going down to the wire in Buenos Aires today as the International Olympic Committee (IOC) prepared to vote on which city between Madri

India's top archer Deepika Kumari came tantalisingly close to winning the World Cup final before she went down to Olympic double gold medallist Bo Bae Ki to settle for a silver in the recurve women's

Sony shares tumbled below 1,000 yen for the first time since 1980 as the Tokyo stock market plunged early on Monday following a dismal performance from Wall Street and amid global economic concerns.

Japan is hoping to cash in on its rich culture by recreating fashionable districts of Tokyo in foreign cities, determined that enclaves of vibrant shops, cafes and restaurants can find new markets abr

The world's tallest tower and Japan's biggest new landmark, the Tokyo Skytree, opened to the public on Tuesday.

Nearly 8,000 visitors were expected to take high-speed elevators up to the observation

A tornado tore through a city northeast of Japan's capital on Sunday, killing one person, injuring dozens of others and destroying scores of houses.

Firefighters and medical teams rushed to the area

Asian shares were mixed on Monday, as lingering optimism over the recovery in the global economy was tempered by US data that came in below expectations.

Tokyo added 0.18 per cent by the break, Hong

A boastful Ferrari driver who put film on the Internet of his supercar doing three times the speed limit in Japan was facing possible jail on Saturday, after disapproving YouTube viewers called police

A worst-case scenario sketched out by the Japanese government foresaw the end of Tokyo in a chain of nuclear explosions that would mean evacuating the city, an independent panel said Tuesday.

Plans

Japan's Mitsubishi Motors said on Friday that cost cuts and a better product line-up enabled to it to reverse a year-before loss and post a net profit in the nine months to December.

Mitsubishi, the