Suzuki pulls out of U.S. car market
TOKYO - For all of Suzuki's tough talk about its "bush-busting" Samurai off-roader, the Japanese automaker never made it big in the U.S. Its cars were too small, its safety record iffy ...
View ArticleNikkei flat by break
(1 hr 15 mins ago) Japanese shares were flat by the lunch break on Wednesday as investors focused on early exit polls in a nail-biter US presidential election. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index at the ...
View ArticleBaseball-Darvish will not play for Japan at Baseball Classic
Nov 6 (Reuters) - Texas Rangers ace Yu Darvish will not play for Japan in the World Baseball Classic next year, saying on Tuesday he wants to focus on winning a World Series. "After much ...
View Article16-year-old girl arrested for abandoning body of newborn daughter
Police in Hitachi, Ibaraki Prefecture, said Tuesday they have arrested a 16-year-old girl for abandoning the body of a newborn baby girl in the parking lot of an apartment complex last ...
View ArticleMeteorite traces found in Japanese riverbed
Japanese researchers have found substances in central Japan that they believe are from a meteorite that crashed into Canada more than 200 million years ...
View ArticleTEPCO over-reports number of Fukushima workers
Tokyo Electric Power Company has over-reported the number of workers who are signed up to decommission the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power ...
View ArticleUS and Japan begin military drills amid China tension
At least 47,000 personnel will take part in the biennial Keen Sword exercise, which runs until 16 November. It is taking place off Okinawa, north of islands both Japan and China claim. The two ...
View ArticleSwimming Teen sensation Yamaguchi better than Kitajima - coach
Japan's new swimming sensation Akihiro Yamaguchi, who appears to have lost his way of late, is better than multiple Olympic champion Kosuke Kitajima was at 18, his national coach ...
View ArticleJapan Worse than a deflationary trap
Long ago, Japan ceased being anyone's economic model. Growth figures tell the tale of relative decline. From 1953 to 1973, a still rebuilding Japan grew by 9 percent annually. From 1974 to 1990 ...
View ArticlePepsi special Japan to get new fat-blocking soda variety
Another week, another announcement of a weird variety of Pepsi being released in Japan. This time it claims to keep your body from absorbing ...
View ArticleJapan still calculating cost of defense firms padded bills
Eight months after investigators began probing endemic overcharging by Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Melco) and related defense and space companies, new details are still being uncovered and the ...
View ArticleNoda Use international law to settle rows
"Japan attaches importance to overcoming any disputes or gaps in opinions or contentions [with other nations] in a peaceful approach by following international law," Noda said in a speech ...
View Article5 men confess to dumping co-workers body in company storehouse
Police in Sanjo, Niigata Prefecture, said Tuesday that five men turned themselves in, claiming to have dumped a co-worker's body in a ...
View ArticleToyotas Aqua best-selling car for 1st time
Toyota Motor Corp.'s Aqua compact hybrid was the best-selling vehicle in this country in October, topping the list for the first time, industry data showed ...
View ArticleJapans Obama town to pray for presidential namesake
They can't vote in this week's U.S. presidential election, but a group of citizens in a western Japanese town plan to use the power of prayer to nudge President Barack Obama toward ...
View ArticleSuzuki files for U.S. bankruptcy protection
With its last all-new product, the slow-selling Kizashi mid-size sedan, entering its fourth model year, and no new metal in sight, Japan's Suzuki has filed for bankruptcy in the U.S., ...
View ArticleDarvish wont pitch for Japan in WBC next spring
Yu Darvish won't pitch for Japan in the World Baseball Classic next spring, choosing instead to focus on preparing for his second major league season. ...
View ArticleJapan End abusive detention system after murder conviction quashed
The acquittal of a man who spent 15 years in prison for a murder he did not commit is a sharp reminder why Japan must reform its police detention system, Amnesty International said on ...
View ArticleSony Mobile likely to outsource 30-40 of smartphones for 2013 to ODMs
Sony Mobile Communications aims to ship 50 million smartphones in 2013, with 30-40% out of the total shipments likely to be outsourced to Taiwan-based handset ODMs, including Foxconn International ...
View ArticleJapan Maehara powerful easing needed in deflation fight
TOKYO (Reuters) - Economics Minister Seiji Maehara said on Wednesday that Japan's economic situation requires powerful monetary easing, and that the Bank of Japan needs to keep the market ...
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