December 11, 2015 Japan ruling bloc pledges reforms after election win Japan's ruling coalition pledged Monday it would push on with rebuilding the economy and turning the corner on two lost decades after securing a handsome majority in weekend upper house polls.
December 11, 2015 Japan boy gets partial lung transplant from mother Part of a Japanese woman's lung was transplanted to her three-year-old son Monday in what was described as the world's first successful graft of a middle lobe from a living donor, a hospital said.
December 11, 2015 Last two Japan nuclear reactors can stay online Japan's nuclear watchdog said the only two reactors currently working in the country can stay online for now, even without meeting strict new safety standards intended to prevent a repeat of the Fukushima disaster.
December 11, 2015 Thousands rally for Taiwan leader's resignation Thousands of people took to the streets of Taipei in a series of protests on Sunday, hurling shoes at the portrait of the beleaguered President Ma Ying-jeou and demanding he step down.
December 11, 2015 N.Korea arms ship faces possible $1 mn fine: Panama The Panama Canal authority said Thursday it will impose as much as a $1 million fine on the North Korean freighter caught with an undeclared shipment of Cuban weapons.
December 11, 2015 Police believe teen involved in shooting outside police building in Australia is linked to terrorism An Iranian teenager fatally shot a civilian member of Sydney's police force in a killing that authorities believe is linked to terrorism, officials said Saturday.
December 11, 2015 Life and death on margins of N. Korea society North Korea's famine in the 1990s unleashed a Darwinian struggle for survival that swiftly eliminated many of the most vulnerable in an already sharply stratified society, a UN panel heard Thursday.
December 11, 2015 Four Chinese ships in disputed waters: Japan Four Chinese ships entered waters around islands at the centre of a bitter dispute with Japan on Saturday with no sign of a compromise seen between Asia's two largest powers.
December 11, 2015 Scrapping of Japan tsunami ship begins A northern Japanese city on Monday began scrapping a fishing boat that was swept far inland by the 2011 tsunami and became one of the most poignant symbols of the disaster.
December 11, 2015 Japan porn dealers arrested after catalogues sent to police Six pornography dealers in western Japan have been arrested after mailing their catalogues to the head of Osaka Police Department by mistake, according to local media.