Japanese group urges gov’t to apologize for comfort women issue
By Mei Jingya, Sina English A private Japanese group held an exhibition on WWII in Tokyo on Sunday afternoon and urged the government to face up to its wartime history and apologize to victims. ...
View ArticleJapan to improve economic ties with India Noda
Published Date: December 29, 2011 NEW DELHI: Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda called for greater economic relations between two of Asia's largest economies on Wednesday, after ...
View ArticleJapan political power broker acquitted in fund scandal as court rejects...
TOKYO - A Japanese high court has acquitted a key political power broker, saying there was no evidence he committed a crime during a 2004 land deal. The Tokyo High Court's acquittal Monday ...
View ArticleJapan Q3 GDP drops worse-than-expected 3.5.
Japanese GDP took a sharp dive in Q3 falling 3.5% q/q AR (consensus 3.4%) as demand from both exports and consumption slumped and capital expenditure contracted sharply. The weakness puts pressure on ...
View ArticleJapan economy shrinks stoking recession fears
Japan 's economy shrank in the September quarter for the first time since last year, adding to signs that slowing global growth and tensions with China are nudging the world's third-largest ...
View ArticleJapan economy shrinks recesssion looms
TOKYO – Japan's economy shrank in the September quarter for the first time since last year, adding to signs that slowing global growth and tensions with China are nudging the world's ...
View ArticleNikkei slumps on strong yen
(1 hr 45 mins ago) Tokyo's benchmark index fell 0.93 percent Monday on fears over a US budget standoff and worries about the slowing Japanese economy, while a strong yen also weighed on shares. ...
View ArticleTokyo in crisis state of mind amid hobbling economy
(58 mins ago) Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda promised today to work ';with a sense of crisis’’ to address the country's financial woes, as he repeated pledges of ...
View ArticleJapans continued retreat from U.S. classrooms
Bad news just keeps coming from Japan. The latest comes from the release of the Institute of International Education's latest annual figures on post-secondary enrollment into and out of the U.S. ...
View ArticleWoman dies after inhaling herb in Tokyo hotel
A woman in her 20s died after inhaling a substance in a hotel in Maruyamacho in Tokyo's Shibuya district on Monday morning. Police said the woman inhaled a herb which is one of the so-called ...
View ArticleOzawa acquitted in fund scandal
A Japanese high court has acquitted a key political power broker, saying there was no evidence he committed a crime during a 2004 land deal. The Tokyo High Court's acquittal Monday clears the ...
View ArticlePassenger plane heading to Tokyo struck by lightning
A Starflyer airplane carrying 145 passengers and crew members from Kitakyushu Airport in the southwestern Japanese prefecture of Fukuoka was struck by lightning on Sunday night, local press reported ...
View ArticleRail services disrupted in Japans Kyushu
/enpproperty--> OSAKA - Train services on the Kyushu Shinkansen Line (high-speed line) have been suspended since the morning hours on Monday due to overhead wire damage occurred near Kumamoto ...
View ArticleTokyo stocks close down
The Nikkei 225 index at the Tokyo Stock Exchange closed down 81.16 points at 8,676.44, while the broader Topix index of all first-section shares lost 1.12 percent, or 8.16 points, to ...
View ArticleJapans GDP contracts 0.9 in Q3
(MENAFN) Official data showed that Japan's gross domestic product (GDP) contracted by 0.9 percent in the third quarter for the first time since last year, a step closer to recession, Reuters ...
View ArticlePublisher David Black claims support in China Japan for proposed B.C. refinery
Newspaper publisher David Black says he has found markets in China and Japan for processed fuel from a proposed $13-billion oil refinery he is promoting for Northern B.C.The interest expressed by ...
View ArticleJapanese PM looks to join Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal
Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda at the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) summit in Vientiane, Laos, Nov. 6, 2012. Mr. Noda announced on the weekend his government's intention to join the ...
View ArticleVentura man returns to Japan 70 years after World War II imprisonment
CARMEN SMYTH/SPECIAL TO THE STAR World War II veteran John Real survived the Bataan Death March. He returned to Japan in October to receive a formal apology from the Japanese government for the ...
View ArticleJapans Yakult to open a new plant to serve Hainan Guangzhou
The investment is a result of the company growing its business in the Guangdong and Hainan provinces, it said. The plant will serve both provinces. Financial details of the investment were not ...
View ArticleFrom cadets to toughest players Japanese recruits battle it out for pole...
These cadets make rugby players look like wimps as they battle it out for pole position in one of the world's toughest sports. The recruits at Japan's National Defence Academy marked the ...
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