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. More »
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. More »
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.
By Patricia Zengerle and Caren Bohan
TOKYO - The leaders of the United States and Japan say they "aspire" to reduce their countries' greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by 2050.
TOKYO (AFP) - - Barack Obama insisted on Friday that the United States was a "Pacific" power and vowed to deepen its engagement in the region as he set foot in Asia for the first time as US president.
TOKYO - President Barack Obama says the U.S. and Japan will work quickly to resolve a dispute over American military bases on Okinawa.
TOKYO (AFP) - - US President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama plan to call for a nuclear-free world and cooperation in fighting climate change when they hold talks here on Friday, reports said.
TOKYO - Tens of thousands of well-wishers gathered outside Japan's moat-ringed Imperial Palace _ many shouting "Banzai," a traditional wish for long life _ to mark Thursday's 20th anniversary of Emperor Akihito's coronation to the world's oldest throne.
TOKYO - Tens of thousands of well-wishers lined the streets of Tokyo on Thursday for a parade on the 20th anniversary of the coronation of Emperor Akihito, who urged Japanese not to forget the lessons of World War II.
TOKYO (AFP) - - Japan's only suspect in the killing of a British woman who was arrested after more than two years on the run has stayed silent during initial questioning, police said Wednesday.
TOKYO - A powerful member of Japan's ruling party criticized Christianity as an "exclusive" religion that is weighing down Western society.
TOKYO - Japanese police said Tuesday that they arrested the main suspect in the slaying of a British teacher whose body was found taped up and half-buried in a sand-filled bathtub, ending a more than two-year manhunt.
TOKYO (AFP) - - Japan said Tuesday it would give up to five billion dollars in new aid to Afghanistan over the next five years to help rebuild the war-torn nation.
TOKYO - Political wrangling by Japan's new government over plans to move a major U.S. Marine base on Okinawa has opened a wide rift in Washington's most important Asian alliance ahead of President Barack Obama's visit later this week.
TOKYO (AFP) - - US President Barack Obama urged Japan's new centre-left government on Tuesday to keep a pact allowing US bases on its territory, as both sides laid the groundwork for his visit to Tokyo this week.
TOKYO (AFP) - - Japanese police said on Tuesday they had arrested 30-year-old Tatsuya Ichihashi, the only suspect in the 2007 killing of British teacher Lindsay Ann Hawker, 22.
TOKYO - The deepening debate over the future of a major U.S. Marine base on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa has opened a broad rift in Washington's most important alliance in Asia ahead of President Barack Obama's visit to the region this week.
TOKYO (AFP) - - US President Barack Obama thinks a US military bases pact with Japan, now under review by a new government in Tokyo, serves Japan's interest and will continue, he said in comments broadcast Tuesday.
WASHINGTON (AFP) - - Nearly one-quarter of the US Senate asked President Barack Obama on Monday to press Japan on his upcoming visit about parental abductions, saying Tokyo's policies were an anomaly among developed nations.
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