TOKYO (AFP) - - Japan's finance minister said Tuesday that monetary policy is key to tackling deflation and urged the Bank of Japan (BoJ) to take on a more aggressive role in staving off falling prices. More »
TOKYO (AFP) - - Japan's finance minister said Tuesday that monetary policy is key to tackling deflation and urged the Bank of Japan (BoJ) to take on a more aggressive role in staving off falling prices. More »
SANAA (AFP) - - A Japanese engineer kidnapped by tribesmen near the Yemeni capital on November 15 was released on Monday, Sanaa's governor Numan Duid announced.
TOKYO (AFP) - - Japan is considering buying around 40 F-35 fighter jets as the future mainstay of the nation's air force, it was reported Monday.
HACHIOJI, Japan (AFP) - - Girls clad in maids' outfits are not traditionally associated with Buddhism, but that has not stopped monks at a centuries-old temple using Japanese pop culture to woo visitors.
SANAA (AFP) - - Al-Qaeda gunmen have seized a Japanese engineer from his tribal kidnappers in Yemen, a tribal source who has been seeking to negotiate his release said on Saturday.
TOKYO - The Epicurean king who oversees the Michelin Guide fears he may be banished from France.
TOKYO (AFP) - - Smoke rose on Thursday from the world's largest nuclear power plant in Japan, which was shut down by an earthquake two years ago, but the operator said no-one was injured and there was no radiation leak.
TOKYO - A U.S. soldier suspected of being involved in a fatal hit-and-run accident in Japan's southern island of Okinawa has refused further questioning by Japanese police, a U.S. Army officer and Japanese police said Thursday.
TOKYO (AFP) - - Smoke rose Thursday from the world's largest nuclear power plant in Japan, which was hit by a deadly earthquake two years ago, but the operator said no-one was injured and there was no radiation leak.
TOKYO (AFP) - - Japanese whaling ships left port Thursday for Antarctic waters for their annual hunt of the ocean giants, Greenpeace said, setting the stage for high-seas confrontations with anti-whaling activists.
TOKYO (AFP) - - Fire-fighters trained to cope with biochemical terrors were rushed to a Tokyo metro station on Wednesday when a male passenger dropped a bottle filled with an industrial acid onto the floor of a train.
TOKYO (AFP) - - Japan's prime minister said Wednesday that his government had not confirmed the release of a Japanese engineer kidnapped by tribesmen in Yemen, after sources there said he had been freed.
SEOUL (AFP) - - The death toll from a blaze at an indoor shooting range in a South Korean city has risen to 11 after a local victim died while being treated for severe burns, hospital officials said on Wednesday.
TOKYO (AFP) - - The United States and Japan held talks on Tuesday over relocating an American military base but made little progress on resolving a row that has strained ties between the allies, officials said.
TOKYO (AFP) - - Japan and the United States will hold talks here on Tuesday to seek ways to solve a sticking row over the relocation of a US military base on the island of Okinawa, the foreign ministry said.
TOKYO (AFP) - - Japan announced Monday its best economic growth in more than two years during the latest quarter, boosting hopes the global economy is getting back on its feet after the worst recession in decades.
TOKYO - Japan's foreign minister said Monday that Tokyo should honor its agreement to find a new location for a major U.S. Marine base, but he and the prime minister said they were still seeking options on where it should go.
TOKYO (AFP) - - Japan, the world's largest consumer of bluefin tuna, hailed a 40 percent quota cut agreed in Brazil in the hope that it will preempt a complete trade ban, a fisheries official said Monday.
SINGAPORE (AFP) - - Japan's Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama said Saturday that his country, which is battling low birth rates and an ageing population, should make itself more attractive to migrants.
TOKYO (AFP) - - Billing himself America's first "Pacific president", Barack Obama on Saturday said the United States did not seek to "contain" China and promised an engaged US role in charting Asia's future.
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