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At least 132 people were injured early Thursday when a powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 jolted northern Japan.

Yoshimura Suzuki 12's Daisaku Sakai in action Thursday at the 8 Hours of Suzuka.

Tokyo, July 21 : A 6.1-magnitude earthquake jolted northeast Japan's Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures Monday, Japan Meteorological Agency said.

An executive connected to a widespread defense scandal is suspected of concealing more than 100 million yen in taxable income using the name of a dead director, sources said.

Yet another indiscriminate fatal stabbing has taken place. On Tuesday night, a 33-year-old company employee stabbed two women at a bookstore located in a shopping center next to a train station in Hachioji, ...

A man arrested in the Tuesday night fatal stabbing of a female bookstore clerk and slashing of another woman in Hachioji, Tokyo, has admitted he had a sudden impulse to kill after experiencing trouble with his ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 jolted northern Japan early on Thursday, but there was no threat of a tsunami from the quake, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.

Public broadcaster NHK said one building was on fire in the area after the quake, and the broadcaster's fixed cameras showed fire engines driving through the streets towards the scene of the blaze. There were no more details immediately available about the extent of the fire.

The focus of the tremor was 120 km (75 miles) below the surface of the earth in Iwate prefecture.

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POLICE arrested a man for allegedly stabbing a woman to death and wounding another at a Tokyo bookstore in an attack the suspect described as random and fueled by frustration, police said Wednesday.

The National Park System's advisory board has recommended designating a reactor at the Hanford nuclear reservation as a National Historic Landmark.

Seoul Semiconductor Co. Ltd. has said that its Acriche LEDs are based on different technology to that coverd by the patent of Nichia Corp.

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Humans have long been trying to make the dream of nanoscopic robots come true. The dream is, in fact, taking on some aspects of reality.

The Navy aims to have the fire-damaged George Washington aircraft carrier arrive at its new home port in Japan in late September, the service's top civilian said Friday.

A deadly suicide fad is sweeping Japan: Hundreds of Japanese have killed themselves this year by mixing ordinary household chemicals into a lethal cloud of poison gas that often injures others and forces the ...

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It was 63 years ago today that the United States detonated the very first atomic bomb.

South Korea could stop co-operating with Japan in six-party talks on denuclearising North Korea if their territorial dispute worsens, Seoul's ambassador to Tokyo said.

Hayao Miyazaki's first full-length film in four years hit screens across Japan on Saturday, putting aside speculation that the Oscar-winning Japanese animator had made his last picture.

An undersea earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.6 rattled the Tohoku and Kanto regions Saturday morning, the Meteorological Agency said.