Hosted by the Asakusa tourism federation in Tokyo's Taito Ward, the 23rd annual Naki Sumo baby cry-off was held on April 29 at Sensoji temple.

According to reports, the US has sent out warnings to Japan saying that the country should not hold down the value of their currency to gain any advantages in the world markets.

A recent report voiced about this season has been worst for the Japanese whaling fleet in the southern ocean. In comparison to their annual quota, the Japanese fleet could only catch 103 whales in 2012-13, a staggering drop of 10%.

An 80-year-old man is all set to climb the highest mountain in the world for the third time. The man named Yuichiro Miura belongs to the country of Japan and will climb Mount Everest for the third time despite of his heart problem. Miura believes that climbing Mount Everest act as an ultimate anti-aging for him.

Japanese researchers from Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology and the University of Tokyo claim to have discovered an important natural resource second time this month.

It seems to be the first of its kind report as it claims that the Tohoku earthquake realized two years back in Japan had left its impacts to be felt at the space edge as well.

Without a doubt, the earthquake that hit Japan on March 11, 2011, was massive with a magnitude of 9. It is being said that a sound wave was sent by the same, which has been caught by Goce satellite.

Sticking to their hitherto image of creativity, Japan has formed 581 exact genetic copies of one mouse through 25 rounds of cloning.

After the nuclear disaster enveloped Fukushima, there has been a warning by the World Health Organization that the people living in the vicinity of 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster are vulnerable to thyroid cancer.

It seems that the battle between Sea Shepherd activists and whalers have reignited as more cases of collision between both are being reported.

It is for the first time since PM 2.5 pollutants touched critical levels in January across the nation that government representatives of Japan and China have met.

On February 22, the two groups gathered so as to discuss over the air pollution in China. Since, the PM 2.5 has been suspected to have brought a rise in the odds of lung cancer, asthma and other chronic diseases.