Japan News

Toyota announces mass hybrid vehicle recall

AFP - Wednesday, February 10

TOKYO (AFP) - - Toyota said Tuesday it was recalling hundreds of thousands of hybrid vehicles globally, including its best-selling Prius, plunging it deeper into crisis as lawsuits in the United States piled up. More »

  • Japan Airlines rejects Delta, stays with American

    AP - Wednesday, February 10

    TOKYO - Japan Airlines, wooed for months by Delta Air Lines with promises of cash and a broad global network, spurned the world's biggest carrier and opted to keep its alliance with American Airlines.

  • Japan PM stresses support for Ozawa after scandal

    Japan PM stresses support for Ozawa after scandal

    AFP - Tuesday, February 9

    TOKYO (AFP) - - Japan's centre-left Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama said on Monday he supported his party's secretary general who days earlier avoided being indicted over a political funds scandal.

  • Body found in airplane wheel well at Tokyo airport

    AP - Tuesday, February 9

    TOKYO - Japanese authorities said Monday they are trying to identify a body found inside one of the landing gear compartments on a Delta Airlines plane flight that arrived in Tokyo from New York.

  • Dead man found in landing gear of US jet in Japan

    Dead man found in landing gear of US jet in Japan

    AFP - Monday, February 8

    TOKYO (AFP) - - Japanese authorities have found the body of a man in the landing gear of a Delta airliner that arrived in Tokyo from New York and said Monday they were seeking US help in identifying him.

  • Strong earthquake hits off Japan's southern coast

    AP - Sunday, February 7

    TOKYO - Japan's Meteorological Agency has issued a tsunami warning for several small islands after a strong earthquake shook an area off the country's southern coast.

  • Japan balks at $2 billion bill to host US troops

    AP - Sunday, February 7

    GINOWAN, Japan - In a country where land is a precious commodity, many U.S. bases in Japan boast golf courses, football fields and giant shopping malls whose food courts offer everything from Taco Bell to Subway and Starbucks.

  • Tokyo's John Lennon Museum to close

    Tokyo's John Lennon Museum to close

    AFP - Friday, February 5

    TOKYO (AFP) - - The world's only authorised John Lennon Museum, on the outskirts of Tokyo, will close its doors in September when a deal with his widow Yoko Ono ends, the operator said Thursday.

  • Japan ruling party No.2 to avoid prosecution

    Reuters - Wednesday, February 3

    TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese prosecutors will likely not charge ruling party No.2 Ichiro Ozawa over a funding scandal that has dented government support ahead of a key election, two national newspapers reported on Wednesday.

  • Child custody battles could raise US-Japan tension

    AP - Wednesday, February 3

    TOKYO - Japan should work to solve problems in international custody cases so that children of broken marriages have access to both parents, a senior U.S. official said Tuesday, hinting the issue could hurt bilateral relations.

  • Man who spent 3 months in Tokyo airport to leave

    AP - Wednesday, February 3

    NARITA, Japan - A Chinese activist who has spent more than three months living inside Tokyo's international airport said Tuesday that Chinese officials have given him permission to return home.

  • US: Japan int'l child custody raising concerns

    AP - Wednesday, February 3

    TOKYO - A senior U.S. official says Japan's policy on international child custody cases has "raised very real concerns" in Washington and suggested that U.S.-Japan relations could be affected if the issue remains unresolved.

  • Tokyo airport protester says he can now head home

    AP - Wednesday, February 3

    NARITA, Japan - A Chinese activist who has spent more than three months living inside Tokyo's international airport said Tuesday that Chinese officials have given him permission to return home.

  • US envoy shrugs off anti-base poll result in Japan

    US envoy shrugs off anti-base poll result in Japan

    AFP - Wednesday, February 3

    TOKYO (AFP) - - The United States wants Japan to honour a plan to host a new US military base on Okinawa island despite a recent election there that signalled local opposition, the top US diplomat for Asia said Tuesday.

  • Rebel champ elected to Japan's age-old sumo body

    Rebel champ elected to Japan's age-old sumo body

    AFP - Tuesday, February 2

    TOKYO (AFP) - - A former sumo champion who has pledged to shake up Japan's scandal tainted 2,000-year-old national sport took a seat on its governing board after a surprise election win Monday.

  • Toyota prepares to roll out pedal repairs

    AFP - Tuesday, February 2

    TOKYO (AFP) - - Toyota readied an announcement Monday on repairs for millions of recalled vehicles affected by faulty accelerator pedals, as executives of the world's biggest carmaker went into damage-control mode.

  • Problems at Toyota, JAL taint Japan Inc.'s image

    AP - Monday, February 1

    TOKYO - Toyota is the latest Japanese corporate icon making headlines for all the wrong reasons.

  • Mexican president in Japan for three day visit

    Mexican president in Japan for three day visit

    AFP - Monday, February 1

    TOKYO (AFP) - - Mexican President Felipe Calderon arrived in Japan on Sunday for a three-day visit, as the countries mark 400 years of official ties.

  • Tokyo protests at Russian border guard shooting

    Tokyo protests at Russian border guard shooting

    AFP - Sunday, January 31

    TOKYO (AFP) - - Tokyo has lodged a formal complaint after Russian border guards shot at two Japanese fishing boats off the disputed South Kuril islands, the Japanese foreign ministry said.

  • Eight countries press Japan on parental abductions

    Eight countries press Japan on parental abductions

    AFP - Saturday, January 30

    TOKYO (AFP) - - Envoys of eight countries met the Japanese foreign minister Saturday to press the government to sign a treaty to prevent international parental child abductions.

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