SpaceX plans to launch early Friday a Japanese communications satellite into a distant orbit before attempting to land the first stage of its Falcon rocket on a floating platform ...
Mitsubishi Motors shares nosedived again Thursday as panic selling wiped about $2.5 billion off the automaker's market value in response to its shock admission that it cheated on fuel-efficiency tests.
Japanese automaker Mitsubishi on Wednesday admitted it manipulated pollution test data in more than 600,000 vehicles, after reports of misconduct sent its Tokyo-listed shares crashing earlier in the day.
For the past three years, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe could usually count on surging corporate earnings to back up the case that his policies were turning around Japan.
Scores of people were feared buried alive Saturday after two powerful quakes hit southern Japan a day apart, killing at least 32 people, and as a forecast storm threatened more devastating landslides.
A magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck southern Japan early on Saturday morning (local time), triggering a tsunami advisory.
Aftershocks rattled southwestern Japan on Friday after a strong quake the night before killed nine, injured at least 1,000 and left thousands without power or water, though nuclear plants in the area avoided damage.
A strong 6.4-magnitude earthquake hit Japan's southwestern island of Kyushu on Thursday, collapsing homes and sparking at least one fire, officials said, but the scale of damage remained unclear.
The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday cut its growth forecast for Japan, saying the economy would shrink next year as a sales tax rise dents consumer spending and warning of a return to deflation.
China joined Asian heavyweights Australia and Japan in the next round of World Cup qualifying after stunning Qatar 2-0 in their last Group C match in Xi’an yesterday.
Japan on Monday switched on a radar station in the East China Sea, giving it a permanent intelligence gathering post close to Taiwan and a group of islands disputed by Japan and China, a move bound to rile Beijing.
A runaway zebra led police on a dramatic chase across a golf course in Japan, until its bid for freedom ended in death when it collapsed in a water trap.
