Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has presented Russian President Viladimir Putin with a traditional Japanese woodprint and a rugby uniform following their talks in the Russian Far Eastern city of ladivostok, the press secretary of the Japanese Foreign Ministry, Takeshi Osuga, said on Thursday

Tokyo's Electric Power Company (TEPCO) said Monday it would consider decommissioning at least one of the seven reactors at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant (NPP) in an attempt to secure support from local authorities to restart the plant

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe held a meeting after the G20 summit in Japan's Osaka on Saturday amid stalled peace treaty negotiations between the two countries

Building a submarine cable, extending from the Russian Far Eastern city of Nakhodka to Japan's Niigata, that would enable high-speed data transfer from Japan to Europe is a key matter on the agenda of the Russian-Japanese relations, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday after talks with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe

Japanese authorities said on Wednesday that at least 16 people were injured after a magnitude-6.7 earthquake struck north-western Japan, prompting the government to issue a tsunami warning, the Deutsche Presse-Agentur, dpa, reported

The Japan Meteorological Agency has lifted its tsunami warning that was issued following the earthquake that hit the country's north on Tuesday