Japan's oldest giant panda, Ling Ling, a longtime star at Tokyo's largest zoo and a symbol of friendship with China, died Wednesday of heart failure, zookeepers said.
(AP) -- The World Trade Organization is giving Japan until Sept. 1 to change its punitive charges on imports of South Korean computer memory chips.
Blackouts are just one of the problems caused by an explosion in Japan’s population of crows, which seems to compete with humans for space in this crowded nation.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan cleared the way for a law allowing non-aggressive military use of space on Friday, overturning a decades-old policy of limiting space development to peaceful uses.
Japan aims to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by between 60 and 80 percent by 2050, news reports said on Sunday, as part of measures setting out the country's long term environmental goals.
Japan passed a new law Wednesday allowing the use of space programmes for defence, an official said, reversing a decades-old policy amid increasing concern about military threats in the region.
(AP) -- A student who allegedly spread a computer virus was convicted Friday of copyright infringement in a case that has highlighted the lack of laws in Japan to police cyberspace.
Investigations begin into claims that meat from Japan's whaling programme is being stolen with official knowledge.
TOKYO (AP) -- The number of people who committed suicide or tried to in Japan because of work-related stress has doubled in the last five years, a government report said, illustrating the growing ...
KOBE, Japan (AP) -- European and developing countries urged the United States and Japan on Sunday to commit to deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 - a step they say is needed to defuse a ...
... , Fla. (AP) -- The seven astronauts aboard the space shuttle Discovery will deliver and install Japan's massive lab, Kibo, or Hope, at the international space station. A look at the six men and one ...
... in Optics Express, the Optical Society’s open-access journal. A team of scientists at Osaka University in Japan show that powerful, but very short, laser pulses can help control the beating of heart ...
... at the University of Delaware, will represent the United States on a scientific panel focusing on the impact of catalysis on energy and the environment at the G8 Summit, July 7-9, in Toyako, Japan.
Forced to import due to limited farmland, Japan is facing huge price jumps for even basic food items—and a night out is the first thing to suffer. Part of Global Food Crisis: A Special News Series.
Japan's third-largest cellphone operator Softbank Mobile said Wednesday it had clinched a deal to bring Apple's iPhone to Japan.
