Rabbit fashion

A rabbit competes in a fashion contest at the Rabbit Festa in Yokohama city, Tokyo, Japan

Toyota Motorsport will quit Formula 1 next season

Japanese team has never matched financial investment with success on the track

Japanese ship collision

Damaged Japanese navy ship Kurama after a collision with a container ship

The fear behind Japan's flourishing rent-a-friend business

A psychoanalyst lifts the lid on Japan's need for fake friends and bosses

Miyuki Hatoyama: ‘I’ve been abducted by aliens’

Japan's new First Lady looks set to upstage the likes of Carla Bruni and Michelle Obama

Japan latest to leave recession

Economy improves after four quarters of contraction, recording 0.9 per cent growth

Picture Past: August 12, 1985, Japan Airlines crash

1985: Rescuers sift through the remains of a Japan Airlines Boeing 747 that crashed shortly after take-off from Tokyo

Daily animal picture: Tokyo fish tank

Some of 800 tropical fish on display in a large tank in Tokyo's Ginza fashion district. Photo: Yoshikazu Tsuno

Staged beauty

A new study of Japanese cinema from the last 40 years reveals its infinite variety