Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and France's Areva are expected to win a US$22 billion contract to build a nuclear power plant in Turkey, a newspaper said Thursday.

Acclaimed Japanese conductor Seiji Ozawa said Wednesday he wants to use the time he “has been given by God” after surviving cancer to teach the next generation of musicians.

A Japanese woman who lived with her brother's mummified body for years tried to dispose of his corpse with household rubbish when she finally realized he was dead, police and reports said Wednesday.

The stock market is roaring, the yen has plunged and Tokyo is jumping into a string of long-delayed trade talks, prompting some to ask a question not heard in years: is Japan back?

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to Mongolia became an opportunity for Tokyo to strengthen its strategic partnership with an Asian country friendly to Japan.

Hopes were fading Sunday that Chinese search and rescue teams would find survivors, two days after a huge landslide crashed down a Tibetan mountain and buried more than 80 mine workers.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sought support from Mongolia on Saturday in Tokyo's territorial row with Beijing over disputed East China Sea islands, during a visit to the country.

North Korea warned Seoul on Saturday that the Korean Peninsula was entering “a state of war” and threatened to shut down a border factory complex that's the last major symbol of inter-Korean cooperation.

The utility that operates Japan's crippled atomic plant said Friday that it deserved most of the blame for the country's nuclear crisis, in the company's strongest remarks about its own shortcomings.

The rising might of China is causing it to act with increasing disregard toward its neighbors, a Japanese government-funded study said on Friday.