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Australia's prime minister threatened legal action against Japan on Friday if it does not stop its research whaling program that kills up to 1,000 whales a year.
Wendy's burger chain severed its agreement with its sole franchise owner in Japan, temporarily leaving a market long dominated by McDonald's Corp.
Panasonic Corp. said Thursday it will take majority control of Sanyo Electric Co. in a $4.6 billion deal, forging one of the biggest electronics makers in the world with an edge in green technologies.
Volkswagen AG will buy a 20 percent stake in Suzuki Motor Corp. for 222.5 billion yen ($2.5 billion), forming one of the world's biggest auto alliances and giving the two carmakers a boost in fast-growing Asian markets.
Actor Johnny Depp highly recommends his latest movie — though he said he hadn't personally gone out to see it yet.
Media reports say Japan has delayed until next year a decision on the relocation of a major US military base on Okinawa at the center of a growing row between Tokyo and Washington.
Japan's government on Tuesday unveiled $81 billion of new stimulus spending to keep the world's second-biggest economy from lurching back into recession.
Thousands of tuna, their silver bellies bloated with fat, swim frantically around in netted areas of a small bay, stuffing themselves until they grow twice as heavy as in the wild.
Japanese police have arrested four teenagers living on a U.S. military base for allegedly putting a rope across a road that caused a woman to crash her motorbike and suffer a head injury, officials and news reports said Saturday.
A court ordered the Tokyo Stock Exchange Friday to pay 10.7 billion yen ($121 million) in damages to Mizuho Securities Co. Ltd. over massive losses in a botched transaction.
U.S. Ambassador John Roos urged a quick resolution Friday of a dispute over the relocation of a U.S. Marine base on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa that is straining bilateral ties and raising tension within Japan's ruling coalition.
The big danger for Toyota isn't the cost of the massive U.S. recall to replace gas pedals, but instead shrinking income from the surging yen, a top executive said Friday.
General Motors Co. and Suzuki Motor Corp. have agreed to end their automaking joint venture in Canada, leaving GM without a Japanese production partner after also severing manufacturing links with Toyota.
French carmaker PSA Peugeot Citroen said Thursday it is in talks with Mitsubishi Motors Corp. that could lead to a "strategic partnership."
Shares in Mitsubishi Motors Corp. jumped 18 percent Thursday following a report that French carmaker PSA Peugeot Citroen will buy a 30 to 50 percent stake in Japan's No. 4 automaker.
Japan's central bank decided Tuesday to further ease monetary policy by massaging the economy with cheap loans amid government pressure to respond to a surging yen and falling consumer prices.
Huge sheets of glass are guided by robotic arms, sliding and turning in a towering germ-free plant, the world's first making giant "10th generation" panels for flat screen TVs.
Japan's foreign minister toured the southern island of Okinawa to meet with local officials Saturday to seek a compromise over the relocation of a U.S. military base at the center of a dispute with Washington.
Japan launched its fifth spy satellite into orbit Saturday in a bid to boost its ability to independently gather intelligence, the government said.
Japanese flocked to a large gymnasium in central Tokyo in recent weeks to see what for them was an unusual sight: senior bureaucrats being grilled over their budget requests for next year.
Honda Motor Co. set record production in Asia and China in October for the second straight month, leading a gradual and spotty recovery at Japanese automakers.
Japan got word Friday that prices fell again in October, just as a surging yen threatens to worsen the deflation that is undermining the country's fragile economy.
Michael Jackson videos or the next Spider-Man movie won't be among the titles that Sony Corp. releases in 3-D as it gears up to boost TV sales with that technology, Chief Executive Howard Stringer said Thursday.
One sailor gives $3K worth of toys to tots NAVAL AIR FACILITY ATSUGI, Japan — It all started four years ago with a Tickle Me Elmo doll. Petty Officer 1st Class Nathan Grant figured he'd do his part to support the Toys for Tots drive at Whidbey Island, Wash., and he tossed the doll into his shopping cart.
Australia 'trying to kill Kyoto'Developing nations have staged a two-hour walkout at the Copenhagen climate talks, accusing the developed world, led by the European Union, Australia and Japan, of pushing to "kill the Kyoto Protocol".
For most of history race in the United States was the white majority ruling and the black minority at first enslaved, then marginalized.
City girls hit rice fields TOKYO - TOKYO'S most fashionable city girls have ventured into unfamiliar territory, crouching in muddy rice paddies to help make Japan's dying farms cool again - and now they can do it in style.
Japan: One of the biggest users of antiviral medicines for H1N1 Japan accounted for three-quarters of the Tamiflu dispensed globally in the drug's first five years of sale, Roche, based in Basel, Switzerland, said in a November 2005 filing to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
U.S. military children arrested for attempted murder in JapanFour American teenagers, all children of U.S. military personnel, have been arrested on charges of attempted murder after a woman was knocked off her motorbike with rope strung across two poles, Japanese police said.
U.S. military children arrested in Japan Four American teenagers, all children of U.S. military personnel, have been arrested on charges of attempted murder after a woman was knocked off her motorbike with rope strung across two poles, Japanese police said.
Woman uses altered finger tips to beat securityA CHINESE woman arrested in Japan for illegal entry had altered her fingerprints through surgery to fool a biometric security system at the airport, media reports said today.
Pole dancing now an athletic sport (Video)Pole dancing could be considered an athletic sport (For the adults)
Canada 'Darth Vader of G8' - thestar.comOTTAWA–Canada's name may be mud heading into Monday's Copenhagen climate change talks. But a look back through history suggests any environmental praise that landed on Parliament Hill over the past dozen years has probably been undeserved.
New deal: Australia to export a further 4.1 Mt LNG (11.5 MtCO2 on burning) per annumPre-Copenhagen Chevron-Tokyo Electric Power deal: 4.1 million tonnes (Mt) of LNG exported pa (11.5 Mt CO2); WA's position as the world's second largest LNG producer by 2020; sales contract amounts to ~ A$90 billion.
Restaurant faces charges for working employee to death - The Mainichi Daily NewsAn Osaka restaurant chain operator faces charges of labor law violations after working one of his employees to death.
Japanese FSA to ease standards for bad loans The Financial Services Agency plans to ease classification standards for bad loans to help enforce a new law to promote lending, despite criticism it will cloud the actual health of financial institutions.
In Japan, an Odd Perch for Google: Looking Up at the Leader In 2001, a fledgling Internet company named Google opened its first overseas office in Japan, eager to tap a huge technology market.
Mr. Obama's bow to the futureAmerican diplomacy is never without controversy, but who would have imagined that the standard protocol of a bow to the Japanese Emperor from U.S. President Barack Obama would have caused such a fuss?
Jellyfish causing havoc for Asian fishermenA blood-orange blob the size of a small refrigerator emerged from the dark waters, its venomous tentacles trapped in a fishing net. Within minutes, hundreds more were being hauled up, a pulsating mass crowding out the catch of mackerel and sea bass.
Our Pushover PresidentBrazil, Japan, China, Russia and Israel are all countries with their own national interests that do not necessarily comport with those of the United States. All have come to see Obama as a diffident, dithering, doubting dilettante who can be dissed with impunity.
Deadly redback creeps into JapanThere are fears in Japan that a potentially deadly Australian invader is beginning to close in on some of the country's most crowded urban areas.
The world's rubbish dump: a tip that stretches from Hawaii to JapanA "plastic soup" of waste floating in the Pacific Ocean is growing at an alarming rate and now covers an area twice the size of the continental United States, scientists have said.
Obama Says Asia Trip Focused on Economy and Creating U.S. Jobs President Barack Obama said he focused much of his recent week-long trip to Asia on exploring ways to increase U.S. exports and thereby create jobs.
'Colbert Report': Deep Presidential Bowing (in Bed)President Barack Obama clearly brought great shame upon his nation by taking a deep bow from the waist during his recent visit to Japan. This ill-conceived gesture undoubtedly revealed that he's weaker than Karl Rove's chin—and that was even before he even got to China.
Navy Pilots are generally not gamblers. Of all his mission critical decisions, Palin is one John McCain most likely would love a do over.
Obama finds Beijing a world away from Afghanistan Traveling thousands of miles across Asia on one of his most intensive foreign trips to date, President Obama has been curiously quiet about his most pressing international policy decision: whether to send more American troops to Afghanistan as the top general there has asked.
So apparently Obama is a weak president and disrespectful president because he bowed the the emperor of Japan. What?! This is Japan we're talking about! Have any of you even been to the east? Bowing is a sign of respect for others.
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