Parents in Tokyo were told to stop giving infants tap water today after it was found to contain levels of radiation more than twice the safety limit
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Fears grew for thousands of disaster victims as relief agencies began drawing-up plans to evacuate their teams because of the escalating radiation risk... more
Londoner Michael Summons, a trader at an international bank in Tokyo, who has lived in Japan since 1987, survived the earthquake. But as the nuclear threat grows, he faces an agonising choice... more
Japan's stock market is gripped by panic selling as the stricken nation's central bank resorts to emergency measures for the second successive day, pumping eight trillion yen (£61 billion) into money markets... more
Terrified survivors in a Japanese city devastated by the earthquake tell how they feared the 'world had stopped' as they tried to scramble to safety
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The US dollar fell to a new 15-year low against the yen in Tokyo trading as investors tried to avoid risky bets and adding pain for Japanese exporters... more
An Air France stewardess is arrested for stealing cash and valuables worth thousands of pounds from passengers as they slept on flights to the Far East... more
Many good judges regard Yashiro Ozu’s 1953 classic as one of the best films ever made — an inalienable masterpiece about the breakdown of family life.... more
There's a talking penis in Miyano Masayuki’s comedy, Lala Pipo, and a bevy of sex-starved young people who wander sex clubs in search of fulfilment... more
Alarmed by a rise in people jumping to their deaths in front of trains, Japanese rail operators are installing blue lights above station platforms... more
Shares were being squeezed yet higher today with the 5200 support now clearly in sight for stock market bulls, despite the closure of several markets, including Tokyo and Wall Street, this afternoon ... more
Head down to a Pecha Kucha night where anyone can give a talk so long as it's quick. But, says Harry Mount, the ultimate faux pas is to be boring... more
Finance: London has slipped from its perch as the world's most expensive city for offices, overtaken by Hong Kong and Tokyo for the first time in nine years... more
Economics: The Bank of Japan joined the big economies' race to zero interest rates, cutting the official short-term interest rate to just 0.1% from 0.3%... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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