Tokyo (dpa) – Japan executed three inmates Thursday morning, local media reported, citing unnamed Justice Ministry sources.
The executions were the first to be carried out since July 2010. those occurred under former justice minister Keiko Chiba, (...)
Tokyo (dpa) – An estimated 10,000 people marched through central Tokyo on Sunday, calling for an end to Japanese nuclear power generation on the anniversary of last year's magnitude-9 earthquake and tsunami.
Many demonstrators, among them men and (...)
Tokyo (dpa) – Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra assured Japanese officials Wednesday that her government was taking measures to prevent a recurrence of last year's devastating floods.
Yingluck told Industry Minister Yukio Edano about water (...)
Tokyo (dpa) – A Japanese court on Wednesday found a Dutch conservation activist not guilty of assaulting a man in a dolphin-hunting town.
The Wakayama District Court could not rule out the possibility that the Japanese alleged victim had given a (...)
Tokyo (dpa) – A Japanese power plant operator said Friday that it would suspend a nuclear reactor in Ehime prefecture, western Japan, for regular checkups, which would leave only five of the nation's 54 reactors in service.
Shikoku Electric Power (...)
Tokyo (dpa) – Japan's whaling fleet set sail earlier this month for its much-criticized annual hunt near Antarctica with detractors saying the country missed a good opportunity to end it in the wake of this year's earthquake and tsunami.
Many (...)