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A host of young Japanese are drawn to the allure of "therapeutic ringtones" - a genre of melodies that promises to ease a range of day-to-day gripes, from chronic insomnia to a rotten hangover.

Japan was accused on Monday of scare tactics at world talks on wildlife protection as it campaigned against a proposal to curb trade in bluefin tuna, the succulent sushi delicacy.The 175-nation Conven...

Consumer confidence in Japan rose for the second straight month in February as deteriorations in the labor market eased and unemployment declined to the lowest in 10 months, while wages began to incli...

TOKYO - The Nikkei Stock Average of 225 issues closed at 10,751.98 on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Monday, up 0.72 of a point or 0.01 per cent.

Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's brother, himself a former cabinet minister, has quit the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and plans to form a new party. The move will further...

A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.6 jolted northern Japan on Sunday, seismologists said, shaking buildings in the capital Tokyo some 240 km away.There were no reports of injuries o...

-(Dow Jones)- Japan's government raised its assessment of the economy for the first time in eight months in March, but emphasized that the risk of prolonged deflation choking off the nation's nascen...

The Roman Catholic bishops of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - the only cities to have endured war-time nuclear bombings - are urging world leaders to abolish nuclear weapons. And on 5 March, a group of ni...

An American man running an English school in Fukuoka Prefecture has been indicted for allegedly shooting pornographic images of a girl who was his student, investigative sources said Monday. The 69-y...

TOKYO, March 15 (AP) - (Kyodo)—(EDS: ADDING DETAILS) Economy minister Naoto Kan said Monday he does not yet think Japan is on a solid recovery path, despite the government's first upgrade of ...

TOKYO, March 15 (AP) - (Kyodo)—Total demand in Japan fell short of supply by 6.4 percent in the October-December period of 2009, the government said Monday, revising a preliminary figure of 6.1...

months+ (AP) - TOKYO, March 15 (Kyodo)—(EDS: ADDING INFO) The number of new condominiums put on sale in the greater Tokyo area increased 10.7 percent in February from a year earlier to 2,777...

TOKYO, March 15, 2010 - Dowa Electronics Materials Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Dowa Holdings Co., Ltd., has successfully developed practical applications for a deep ultraviolet LED that generates short...

-(Dow Jones)- Japanese Finance Minister Naoto Kan on Monday renewed pressure on the Bank of Japan to continue efforts to pull the country's economy out of deflation, although he acknowledged there h...

Baidu, the largest online search web portal in China, has established a joint venture with Japan-based Rakuten to operate B2C online shopping service in the China market and plans to kick off operatio...

TOKYO, March 15 (AP) - (Kyodo)—A group of cartoonists including Tetsuya Chiba, illustrator of popular manga series "Ashita no Joe" (Tomorrow's Joe), voiced their opposition Monday in Tokyo to a...

A University of Tokyo associate professor has resigned over the alleged sexual harassment of two university students, it has been learned. The associate professor, who is in his 30s, belonged to a re...

TOKYO, March 15 (AP) - (Kyodo)—The U.S. dollar held its strength in the upper 90 yen range Monday in Tokyo backed by hopes for a U.S. economic recovery, while investors focused on policy meetin...

- Grass-roots Motor-sports Activities to be Enhanced - March 15, 2010, TOKYO - Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC), which views motor sports as an ideal medium for conveying the dreams and excitem...

- Fifth design center will add 20 designers to global resources - BEIJING (March 15, 2010) - Nissan (China) Investment Co., Ltd. (NCIC), a Nissan subsidiary in China, today announced the expa...

March 15, 2010 - Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota), Nissan Motor Company (Nissan), Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (Mitsubishi Motors), Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. (Fuji Heavy Industries), and the Tokyo ...

(RTTNews) - The stock market in Japan ended flat on Monday as traders preferred to lock in profit in directionless trading session and adopt a wait-and-watch attitude ahead of Bank of Japan's Policy ...

Japan's government upgraded its assessment of the economy on Monday for the first time in eight months, but reiterated that deflation posed a risk and called on the Bank of Japan for further economic ...

A man was found dead on a road in the Tokyo city of Kokubunji early Monday with his hands bound with tape, police said. A passerby made an emergency call at about 5:50 a.m. on Monday, saying there ap...

decisions+ (AP) - TOKYO, March 15 (Kyodo)—(EDS: ADDING DETAILS AND PRICES) The Nikkei stock index closed almost flat Monday with investors taking a step back to await the outcome of upcoming...