New Zealand has pummelled Japan 83-7 on Friday in an embarrassingly one-sided game at the Rugby World Cup in New Zealand.
All Blacks’ fly-half Dan Carter has pulled out of the side to play Japan in their World Cup clash on Friday after failing to overcome a sore back.
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/ 12 September 2011
Hisayoshi Teramura’s inn looks much like any other lodging in Yokohama. But the place is neither a love nest nor a pit stop: it’s a corpse hotel.
Japan’s prime minister has announced his resignation after plunging approval ratings over his handling of the tsunami disaster and nuclear crisis.
Moody’s Investors Service cut its rating on Japan’s government debt by one notch to Aa3 on Wednesday, blaming revolving-door political leadership.
Japan’s exports fell for the fifth month in July as the country contends with a strong yen and the ongoing impact of the March earthquake and tsunami.
World stocks rose after stability returned to markets after last week’s dizzying swings and data showed Japan’s economy shrank less than expected.
To meet growing demand for radiation detectors, a Japanese researcher has come up with devices made from recycled plastic bottles.
The US sent its first representative to the annual memorial for the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, which killed almost 80 000 people.
Japan’s retail sales rose in June, marking the first gain since a devastating March quake and tsunami in another signal of recovery in the country.
Japan’s government said it will suspend shipments of beef cattle from Fukushima prefecture after discovering that cattle had eaten contaminated feed.
Twitter users fired off a record number of tweets per second at the final whistle of Japan’s upset win over the US in the women’s World Cup final.
Japan has won the women’s soccer World Cup for the first time after coming from behind to beat the United States 3-1 on penalties.
Tokyo has formally announced its bid to host the 2020 Olympics as symbol of determination to recover from the devastating March 11 double disaster.
Its Japanese developers call it the "Futuristic Circular Flying Object" and it’s designed to go where humans can’t.
Japan and anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd have each accused the other of violent and illegal acts on the high seas around Antarctica.
Tokyo Electric Power Company faced pressure on Tuesday from angry shareholders to shut all its reactors.
The previously undisclosed hiring of welders from the US and South-east Asia underscores the way Tokyo Electric outsourced its riskiest work.
After the indignity of seeing its economy overtaken by China’s, Japan has clawed back a little pride by producing the world’s most powerful computer.
An operation to clean up radioactive water was suspended on Saturday, hours after it got under way, when radiation levels began rising dramatically.
Japan on Saturday marks three months since its quake-tsunami resulted in a nuclear crisis while frustration grows over the government’s slow response.
Toyota has said it expected net profit in this fiscal year to drop 31% on a strong yen and the effect on production of the March 11 disasters.
Fuel rods have probably breached containment vessels — a more serious scenario than core meltdown — according to a report.
Japan’s Prime Minister Naoto Kan, struggling with the nation’s tsunami and nuclear disasters, on Thursday faced a no-confidence motion.
Japanese nuclear regulators trusted that the reactors at Fukushima Daiichi were safe from the waves based on a single-page memo.
The European Union and Japan agreed to start talks towards a multi-billion-euro free trade deallinking the world’s third biggest economy to the globe’
Japan will undergo a renewable energy revolution, with 10-million homes powered by solar energy in the years ahead, the country’s prime minister says.
Tokyo Electric Power Company confirmed on Tuesday that there had been meltdowns of fuel rods at three of the plant’s reactors early in the crisis.
Had Sony stuck with the Airboard portable PC it launched in 2000, Satoru Maeda instead of Steve Jobs might have been feted as the tablet PC creator.
Japan’s economy plunged back into recession in January to March, contracting sharply on the impact of the nation’s biggest recorded earthquake.
When other doctors fled, 72-year-old Kyohei Takahashi stayed, and hundreds of patients in the town near a crippled nuclear plant will never forget.
Sony said it had begun restoration of its PlayStation Network games service on Sunday, almost a month after a massive security breach.