In Earth's highly radioactive hotspots, life can get pretty strange – from fungus that seems to thrive to an explosion of vertebrate diversity in the absence of human interference. A different story ...

Fifteen years after a tsunami caused the Fukushima nuclear accident, only bears, raccoons and boar are seen on the streets. But the authorities and some locals want people to move back ...

The reactor had been offline for over a decade, and the company wanted to fire it back up, but the reactor had different ...

The Japanese yen strengthened against the U.S. dollar on Friday. Traders anticipate potential government intervention to curb ...

Japan may have its first woman Prime Minister, but in the business community, breaking down decades of entrenched resistance ...

The New York Federal Reserve's recent action has lowered the bar for Japan to intervene in currency markets. This has led to ...

By Makiko Yamazaki and Leika Kihara TOKYO, Jan 26 (Reuters) - The unusual rate check by the New York Federal Reserve that triggered a spike in the stubbornly weak yen has lowered the threshold for ...

Japanese are known have healthy living habits. Here is one which may help to reduce weight and improve overall digestion too. As per the documents presented in court, contact between Ebiswa and an ...

Nearly a million revelers crowded New York's Time Square to witness the traditional dazzling ball drop, fireworks lit up Australia's Sydney Harbor and communist Vietnam held ...

Although Mercury was geologically active in its early days, today its surface appears almost completely static. This is why ...