The biggest ever global school rankings is published, with Asian countries in the top five places and African countries at the bottom.

Here is a list of the largest earthquakes around the world since the 1900’s according to their intensity on Richter scale and casualties.

Shinzo Abe much heralded economic policy, dubbed as “Abenomics” by his enthusiastic supporters, had been able to lift the Nikkei to an all-time high in the last one-and-half decades. However, purses of the majority of the Japanese people still remain very tight.

Japan survives surprisingly well without nuclear power for last four years.Following the Fukushima disaster in March 2011 all of Japan's 48 other nuclear reactors were shut down.

Japan expresses concern over the recent violence during campaigning for the upcoming Dhaka and Chittagong city corporation elections.

A Japanese magnetic levitation train has broken its own world speed record, hitting 603km/h (374mph) in a test run near Mount Fuji.

A strong earthquake rattles Taiwan and small islands in the far south of Japan, official monitoring sites said, briefly prompting a warning for a 1-metre tsunami for the Okinawa island chain.

Japan recognised the People's Republic of Bangladesh on February 10th, 1972, soon after its independence. Japan was thus one of the

The remains of nearly 400 US servicemen killed at Pearl Harbor are to be exhumed so they may be identified and given individual burials.

Air safety authorities in Japan is investigating how a South Korean Asiana Airlines plane skidded off a runway on landing at Hiroshima airport.

Investors were focused on Japan as the country's benchmark Nikkei 225 index traded above 20,000 for the first time since 2000.

Shares in Japan led Asian stocks higher boost by a weaker yen and gains from Wall Street overnight.

Misao Okawa, a Japanese woman recognized as the world's oldest person died early on Wednesday surrounded by her grandchildren.

Japan opens what organisers are billing as the world's first "Otaku" summit Saturday, drawing visitors from around the world as the country looks to boost the international fan base for Japanese comic books and anime.

The Expo is part of a special comic book fair held every five years, which attracts about half a million visitors, but this year's event marks the first time that groups from outside Japan are invited. About four dozen overseas Otaku groups were expected to attend.

Asia's two largest economies, China and Japan witness factory activity expand at a slower pace in March, suggesting that their recovery may be losing momentum

Foreign ministers of China, Japan and South Korea are meeting for their first talks in three years

China and Japan are holding their first high-level security talks in four years, following recent tensions over territorial and historical issues.

Five people die in a stabbing attack in the western Japanese city of Sumoto

The world's oldest person, a woman from Japan, is turning 117-years-old.