ANALYSIS Nodas election strategy faces hurdles--mainly within his own party
Tensions are again rising in the already fractious ruling Democratic Party of Japan, this time over Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's moves to dissolve the Lower House this year for a snap ...
View ArticleJapan tech stocks rise but bank shares sink
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Japanese stocks seesawed in early Wednesday action, as tech shares showed strength but banking shares were mostly softer. The Nikkei Stock Average ticked 0.1% higher to ...
View ArticleDeodorizing Underwear Why Does Japan Get All the Cool Stuff
Soon, silent but deadly will just be … silent. At least, that’s the promise a Japanese company is making about its line of deodorizing underwear, which has reportedly become a hit among ...
View ArticleJapan Stock Futures Little Changed as China Leader Meeting Ends
Nikkei 225 (NKY) Stock Average will halt its longest streak of losses in seven months, as a once-in-a-decade meeting to choose new leaders in China draws to a close. Australian shares gained. ...
View ArticleJonathan Manthorpe China’s goading boosts Japan’s right wing
For generations, China's Communist Party has indoctrinated its people with the belief that under the skin of every charming Japanese clutching his pacifist constitution lurks the soul of an ...
View ArticleChina opposes Japans support for Dalai Lama
Analysts say the collusion of the Dalai Lama and the growing number of Japanese right-wing forces will add tension to already strained China-Japan ...
View ArticleNew party unveiled in Tokyo
Former Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara on Tuesday unveiled his new party, marking the latest round of Japanese political turmoil before the expected lower house dissolution and general election. ...
View ArticleA Japanese Free Market Economist on Japans Politics and Political Economy
Yashiro Naohiro (????), economics professor at International Christian University in Tokyo, is not Japan's only "classical liberal," ...
View ArticleChina lodges representation to Japan over Dalai Lamas separatist activities
Three people were injured Tuesday afternoon after a taxi ran over a fire hydrant and crashed into a tree in Xuhui district while trying to avoid a ...
View ArticleJapanese Market Up Slightly Amid Cautious Trades
The Japanese stock market is trading higher on Wednesday, with investors picking up some stocks amid expectations of a technical rebound after seven successive days of losses. However, with no ...
View ArticleJapans Toshiba restarts shipments at flood-hit Thai plant
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's leading chipmaker Toshiba Corp said on Wednesday it had restarted production at its semiconductor facility in Thailand and resumed shipping discrete chips used in ...
View ArticleChina blasts hypocrisy of Dalai Lama
China has criticized the Dalai Lama's "separatist activities" in Japan and alleged collusion with Japanese right-wing forces in a new attack on the Tibetan spiritual leader. "Dalai's poor ...
View ArticleSeven new Chinese rare earth ventures given nod
BEIJING - Seven companies including a subsidiary of Inner Mongolia Baotou Steel Rare-earth Hi-tech Co. (REHT), China's largest rare earth producer, have been given the go-ahead to set up new ...
View ArticleChina urged to investigate reasons for self immolations by Tibetans
TOKYO - Exiled Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama Tuesday refuted Chinese claims that he was instigating self immolation drive in Tibet and asked Beijing to "thoroughly investigate" the cause behind ...
View ArticleVonn Being Tested for Intestinal Pain
Lindsey Vonn remained hospitalized in Colorado on Tuesday with "severe intestinal pain" that has been affecting her for the past two weeks. Vonn's spokesman, Lewis Kay, wrote in an ...
View ArticleJapans Sharp soars on Intel cash hopes
SHARES in Japan's embattled electronics maker Sharp have rocketed on reports the company may get a cash injection of hundreds of millions of dollars from chip giant ...
View ArticleNikkei inches up by break
(15 mins ago) Tokyo stocks ended Wednesday morning 0.11 percent higher after a string of recent losses stoked by concerns over the global economy and a looming US "fiscal cliff'' of ...
View ArticleK computer drops to No. 3 in world rankings
The raid in October of a chain of soapland clubs in Tokyo's top brothel quarter of Yoshiwara is generating plenty of speculation in adult-entertainment circles. Tokyo Metropolitan Police on ...
View ArticleJapan PM hints at possible December polls
Japanese reports yesterday said that Mr Noda told Azuma Koshiishi, secretary-general of his ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), at a meeting on Sunday that "dissolving the Lower House before ...
View ArticleJapan to create the worlds first futures market for liquefied natural gas
Tokyo plans to create the world's first futures market in Japan for liquefied natural gas, a fuel for thermal power generation, as early as fiscal 2014, the Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry ...
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