Japanese fish dealers on Friday welcomed the rejection of a proposed trade ban on Atlantic bluefin tuna — a prized ingredient of sushi — while urging that existing quotas be more strictly enforced to protect the species from overfishing. Thursday's vote at a U.N. meeting ...

Time may have diminished the trauma of the worst terrorist attack in modern Japanese history, which struck 15 years ago Saturday, but widow Shizue Takahashi is determined not to let the memory fade. On March 20, 1995, the Aum Supreme Truth doomsday cult unleashed Nazi-invented sarin gas on Tokyo's morning rush-hour trains on the orders of their leader, a ...

Japanese land prices fell at the fastest pace for five years in 2009, as the nation's weak economy struggles with another bout of deflation, official data said Thursday. Costs across the country fell 4.6 percent on average, the land ministry said in its annual land price survey, the biggest drop since 2004, when they fell by 5.0 ...