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TOKYO -; The United States and Japan are discussing a plan to transfer thousands of troops to Guam despite their failure to replace a major U.S. Marine base on the southern Japan island of ...

PHOTO/FILE A Mitsubishi Outlander sports model produced by NedCar, a Japan's Mitsubishi Motors production unit in the Netherlands. The Japanese car-maker has decided to withdraw production in ...

TOKYO -- The United States and Japan, hoping to break a stalemate over the U.S. military presence on Okinawa, are discussing a plan to transfer nearly 5,000 troops to Guam despite their failure to ...

WASHINGTON -; U.S. and Japanese officials are discussing plans for shifting thousands of American forces from Japan to the U.S. Pacific territory of Guam. Plans to transfer some 8,000 U.S. Marines ...

yen ($14 billion at Tuesday's rate) worth of its currency over the first four days of November, according to the finance ministry data. The move followed the 8.07-trillion-yen operation on ...

Feb. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Japan sold its currency five times in the final quarter of last year, the Ministry of Finance said on its website today, as the government moved to shield exporters’ ...

TOKYO -- The Japanese finance ministry conducted stealth intervention in the currency markets to stem the yen's rise after its highly publicized yen-selling campaign on Oct. 31, data released ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's trade minister said on Tuesday he had not set deadlines to resume operations at nuclear reactors after a media report said the government aimed to restart two reactors ...

Nikkei share average pulled back from a three-month high on Tuesday as a delay in Greece's response to the painful terms for a new bailout tempered increasing optimism over the U.S. economic ...

SAPPORO -- Tourists and locals bundled in mittens and scarves crowded the streets of central Sapporo on Feb. 6 as the 63rd Sapporo Snow Festival got under ...

Three university professors on a government task force to draw up new nuclear power policy guidelines received substantial cash donations from the nuclear power industry and related companies or ...

BEIJING -- China has been flexing its financial muscle in the infrastructure sector of European countries battered by the sovereign debt ...

Japanese electronics makers, once the driving force of the country's economic growth, are piling up losses. The three electronics giants of Panasonic Corp., Sony Corp. and Sharp Corp. are ...

Japan will not rule out taking any measures to battle speculative moves in currency markets, Finance Minister Jun Azumi said on Tuesday, after data showed Tokyo spent roughly 1 trillion yen ($13 ...

Feb. 7 (Bloomberg) --　Japan’s Nikkei 225 Stock Average retreated from a three-month high as Greek politicians struggled to meet the conditions for a bailout, reviving concern the debt- ...

But Awagiku can be forgiven the occasional loss of timing. She is one of three young women who are just months into their careers as aspiring geisha. There is a lot riding on their success: if they ...

Unlike China, Japan’s population is in danger of shrinking dramatically. The main reasoning behind this development is what is being called ...

Regular green tea drinkers have a lower risk of developing functional disability, researchers from Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan, reported in the American Journal of ...

— Japan is the first industrialized nation in Asia; the country opened itself to Western commerce and influence in 1854 and went through periods of economic development and industrial ...

TOKYO (Reuters) – Over a thousand people gathered on the outskirts of Tokyo, shovels and ladders in hand. Their goal: to dig their way to victory in the Japan All-National Hole Digging ...

Satoshi Ariizumi / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writer The government is strengthening its economic diplomacy by utilizing foreign exchange holdings to help stem Europe's ongoing financial ...

The Yomiuri Shimbun A majority of people expect the Nadeshiko Japan women's soccer team to win a medal at the London Olympic Games scheduled to start on July 27, according to a recent ...

The Yomiuri Shimbun "Winning [the Prix de Lausanne] has greatly encouraged me for my future. I'd like to become a dancer who can move people," said Madoka Sugai, 17, on Sunday ...

The ministry launched the initiative to revive tourism in Tohoku's disaster zone and wants the foreign guests to write about the progress that has been made in rebuilding its devastated ...

Cracking the future: A Shinto priest performs purification rites after observing a streak of elevated ice cracks on the surface of Lake Suwa, in Nagano Prefecture, on Monday. ...