Japan’s most iconic landmark, Mount Fuji, has been named as a World Heritage site.

Japan’s Mount Fuji looks likely to win recognition as a World Heritage site.

A MEMBER of the doomsday cult behind a deadly Tokyo subway gas attack in addition to other crimes turned himself in to police yesterday after 17 years on the run.

A marauding monkey confined to a zoo after it bit 120 people during a two-month rampage in resort towns of central Japan briefly escaped captivity before it was captured again.

IT’S amazing how smaltz songs can contain memorable lines, phrases that never leave one, no matter how saccharine or sentimental.

IT IS extremely rare for turbulence to be so bad that it causes a large passenger airline to crash.

Hundreds of thousands of revellers flooded New York's Times Square today to watch the famed crystal ball as it dropped to mark the New Year.

Hundreds of thousands of revellers watched fireworks burst over Sydney Harbour for New Year’s Eve, while in Japan thousands scaled Mount Fuji to catch the first glimpse of the sun in 2007.

Fans of the acclaimed DJ Fatboy Slim were today urged to be on their best behaviour when they attend his beach concert in the North this weekend.

The Japanese Grand Prix will move from Suzuka to Fuji, it was confirmed today.

Tsutomu Tomita hopes to see the culmination of his life’s work next season, when he has challenged Toyota to win in Formula One.

Darren Clarke cruised to his first victory of the year in the Taiheiyo Masters in Japan overnight.

Darren Clarke moved into a four-shot lead after the third round of the Taiheiyo Masters in Shizuoka, Japan.

Darren Clarke claimed the outright lead in the Taiheiyo Masters in Shizuoka, Japan, after a second-round 65 put him two clear of local favourite Shingo Katayama on 13 under.

WORLD number eight Pádraig Harrington believes golf should be inducted into the Olympics for the 2008 Games in Beijing.

MOUNT Fuji, the graceful conical volcano that rises over the Tokyo metropolitan area, is slowly changing shape and could erupt over a wider area than previously predicted, researchers said.

AN American mountaineer who lost the use of his legs in a car accident seven years ago resumed his slow but steady ascent of Mount Fuji yesterday after his attempt to climb Japan's highest mountain nearly ended on its first day.

A record number of people are believed to have committed suicide last year at the base of Mount Fuji.

The day before astronaut Commander Laurel Clark died in the shuttle disaster she sent an e-mail home to family and friends.

One of the crew of Columbia sent an e-mail home to friends and family the day before she died, it was revealed today.

The New York man who holds the most titles in the Guinness Book of Records has wiggled himself to another.

Michael Campbell and David Smail took another step towards winning the EMC World Cup after the third round in Japan.