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Health ministers from Japan, China and South Korea agreed Monday to step up efforts to ensure food safety following concerns over pesticide-tainted Chinese-made dumplings.
Japan is considering buying around 40 F-35 fighter jets as the future mainstay of the nation's air force, it was reported Monday.
Intuitive received regulatory approval from MHLW to market its da Vinci S System in Japan.
Japan's defense ministry is moving toward selecting Lockheed Martin Corp's F-35 jet as the mainstay of its next-generation fighter force, Kyodo news agency reported on Monday, citing ministry sources.
In the chaotic world after the Cold War and the September 11 2001 attacks, Japanese author Haruki Murakami says metaphors can be even more powerful than what's real -- a reason why his surreal books are read worldwide.
Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- China is risking a Japan-style bubble unless the country’s regulators start to rein a record lending boom, BNP Paribas said. “We’re entering a phase where China could experience similar asset bubble that we saw in Japan in the 1980s,” said Erwin Sanft , head of China and Hong Kong equities research at BNP Paribas.
Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Japan Airlines Corp. may reduce pensions for current employees by more than 50 percent, Kyodo News reported, citing a presentation by President Haruka Nishimatsu .
Hardly a day goes by that you don't hear something about Japan ,whether the subject is trade, travel, cuisine, the arts, orJapanese imports ranging from Sony and Toyota to karaoke and anime.Yet Japan remains something of an enigma to people in the Westernworld.
Synthesis tool vendor Synfora Inc. announced it has appointed Mike Arai as general manager of its office in Yokohama, Japan.
Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Quanta Storage Inc. lost two patent lawsuits to Japan’s Ricoh Co. and is ordered to pay $14.50 million as damages, the company said in a statement to the Taiwan Stock Exchange. Quanta slid 5.7 percent to NT$57.50, the most since July 27, as of 9:42 a.m.
Japan's Embassy in Yemen says a Japanese engineer who was kidnapped a week ago by tribesmen there has been released.
(RTTNews) - Health Ministers from Japan, China and South Korea agreed to share information on food safety and coordinate measures against the outbreak of the new AH1N1 influenza virus.
Top-ranked Brazil overpowered Japan in straight sets Monday to win the volleyball World Grand Champions Cup. The South American champions won 25-12, 26-24, 25-22 to raise their record to 5-0 in the six-nation tournament. Brazil won this event the last time it was played in 2005. Cuba defeated Iran 25-14, 25-22, 15-25, 25-15 to finish second with a 4-1 record.
The kidnappers of a Japanese engineer in Yemen have insisted on the release of a detained Islamist, as Japan's embassy said on Monday that the hostage remains in the hands of tribesmen and not Al-Qaeda.
Japan markets closed due to public holiday
Stealth jets would replace aging F-4 fleet Kyodo News The Defense Ministry is making arrangements to select the F-35 as Japan's next mainstay fighter jet, sources at the ministry and the Self-Defense Forces said Sunday.
