Kiyoshi Takenaka

Japanese nuclear power plant operator Tepco expects to stop pumping radioactive water into the ocean on Monday, days later than planned.

Japan’s prime minister made his first visit to the country’s tsunami-devastated region on Saturday and entered a nuclear exclusion zone.

Japan’s nuclear and humanitarian crisis stretched to three weeks on Friday with radiation still leaking from a crippled nuclear power plant.

The high level of radiation in water flooding the basement at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi plant is probably due to a partial melting of fuel rods.

Engineers attached a power cable to the outside of Japan’s tsunami-crippled nuclear plant on Saturday in an attempt to get the water pumps going.

Japanese engineers toiled frantically to avert a catastrophic release of radiation from a crippled nuclear power plant north of Tokyo on Friday.

Japanese engineers worked through the night to lay a 1,5km electricity cable to a crippled nuclear power plant in the hope of restarting pumps.

The DA may challenge the appointment of the prosecutions boss in the Constitutional Court, after its application was rebuffed in a high court.

China has asked Japan not to attend a Nobel Peace Prize ceremony honouring Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo.

Toyota’s president braced for tough questions from a US congressional panel on Wednesday after the carmaker conceded it had let safety standards slip.

Companies in Japan are looking to cultivate a market that beats even hybrid cars in green credentials: electric bicycles.

Shares of Citigroup rose 5% in their debut on the Tokyo bourse on Monday, a day after the United States bank’s head resigned to take responsibility for spiralling losses on…

Sony will roll out the the PlayStation 3, the latest version of its blockbuster games machine, in Japan on Saturday in a three-way showdown with Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and…