A 61-year-old Japanese woman gave birth to her own grandchild using an egg donated by her daughter, a clinic said today.

GERMANS are gaga over Barack Obama.

Japan plans to follow up its first lunar satellite orbit this month by sending an unmanned probe to land on the moon by 2015, news reports said today.

Japan’s prime minister faced growing calls to resign today, a day after his coalition suffered a humiliating election defeat that claimed the job of his ruling party’s secretary general and may trigger a Cabinet overhaul.

Japan’s agricultural minister attempted to hang himself amid a scandal over his use of official funds, media reports said today.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe marked the 60th anniversary of Japan’s constitution today by calling for a bold review to allow the country to take a larger role in global security and foster a revival of national pride.

Japan’s central bank will end the country’s 0% interest rate policy next week, paving the way for an interest rate increase of 0.25%, news reports said today.

More members of Japan’s newly elected parliament believe Japanese troops should be withdrawn from Iraq when their mission expires in December than believe they should stay, a survey said today.

China said diplomatic relations with Japan were at a three-decade low and that Tokyo – by refusing to face up to its militaristic past – was to blame.

American chess champion Bobby Fischer could be deported to the United States to face tax evasion charges there, it was reported today.

A photographer at a leading Japanese newspaper was fired today after a cluster bomb he was carrying as a souvenir of the Iraq war exploded at Amman airport, killing a security guard and wounding three others.

A Japanese newspaper president is taking a pay cut after Jordanian prosecutors charged one of his photographers with manslaughter.

A Japanese newspaper photographer, arrested after an Iraqi war souvenir exploded in his suitcase, killing a Jordanian airport guard, remained in custody today.

Two major Japanese electronics retailers are suspending sales of Microsoft's Xbox.

Public support for Japan’s reformist Prime Minister has risen to 87% and many people think he is changing the country’s rigid political ways, a newspaper poll said today.