A record quantity of radioactive cesium – 7,400 times the country’s limit deemed safe for human consumption – has been detected in a greenling fish in the waters near the crippled [...]

Australia and Japan witnessed marginal declines in gold reserves during November. Japan’s gold reserves dropped to gold reserves were at $42.46 billion in November while Aust[...]

The operator of the Japanese nuclear power plant that suffered a tsunami-induced meltdown last year has admitted that the disaster could have been avoided. The catastrophe left nea[...]

The Senkaku Islands, also called the Diaoyu (Fishing) Islands in Chinese, are five unremarkable and uninhabited landmasses in the East China Sea to the northeast of Taiwan. The isl[...]

A woman holds up Japanese electronics giant Hitachi’s new quartz glass plate technology, which can be used to store data indefinitely, in Tokyo on September 24. The company o[...]

A senior advisor to the Chinese government has called for an attack on the Japanese bond market to precipitate a funding crisis and bring the country to its knees, unless Tokyo rev[...]

China’s most powerful military leader, in an unusual public statement, last week ordered military forces to prepare for combat, as Chinese warships deployed to waters near disputed[...]

Here is a summary of where the world stands: - Unable to reach a compromise over the weekend, South Africa is now in an all out labor strike, with the police again firing rubber bu[...]

The Japanese ambassador to China died in a Tokyo hospital after being admitted three days earlier. His death coincides with an escalation in anti-Japanese protests across China ove[...]

Trans Pacific Partnership: corporate escape from accountability Information has been leaked about the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), which is being negotiated in secret by US Tra[...]