After playing some bad matches, Brazil has dropped down to number 18 in the latest FIFA rankings while Spain is ahead of all in the list.

The rankings are based on the last four years' performances. Brazil's low ranking is due to the matches, one of which it lost to Argentina while other was drew with Colombia. It also lost some points in a match with Portugal in 2008 which it won by 6-2.

With Mitsubishi Motors' fourth round of recalls prompting the government to warn the automaker about its "passive" handling of oil leak issues with its vehicles, the shares of the automaker witnessed their biggest fall - of 11 percent - in 21 months in Tokyo trading.

It seems that tension boiling between Japan and China has reached to a new level. Not many days have passed when a Chinese plane flew over the Japanese boundaries and in return Japan reverted back in a similar action.

As per reports, it has been revealed that Japanese stocks are performing well, as the Nikkei Stock Average was found to be over the 10,000-point mark. The mark is considered to be the highest since April.

As per reports, a dock of debris has been spotted near the coast of Washington state. The dock is said to be one of the things that was washed up due to Japan's tsunami in 2011.

Sun Pharmaceutical Industries, soon after agreeing to procure the U. S.-based URL Pharma's generic drugs business, has realized an upsurge in its shares.

Japan's Liberal Democratic Party that is committed to assertive monetary easing has won in an election. A recent report reveals that this landslide for the party has caused the Yen to plunge to its lowest ever.

According to the findings of a survey carried out by Japan's Cabinet Office in October, over 51 percent of the respondents said that married couples should perform conventional roles --- that is, the wives should stay at home, while the husbands should go out to work and earn money to run the family.