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Nov. 11 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama says he expects Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama to honor an agreement on American troops in Japan as the two countries work to keep the issue from overshadowing this week’s summit.
US President Barack Obama thinks a US military bases pact with Japan, now under review by a new government in Tokyo, serves Japan's interest and will continue, he said in comments broadcast Tuesday.
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Japan’s economy remains beset by deflation and investors are “jittery” about the nation’s bond market, said Robert Feldman , head of Japan economic research at Morgan Stanley in Tokyo.
Local media reports that Toyota Motor Corp. is shutting 300 dealerships in Japan over the next three years. Toyota is the world's biggest automaker and has 4,000 dealerships nationwide but is expecting its second straight year of losses for the fiscal year through March 2010.
Japan's government decided on Tuesday to pledge five billion dollars in new aid over five years from 2010 to help rebuild war-torn Afghanistan, an official said Tuesday.
Japanese police said Tuesday that they arrested the main suspect in the slaying of a British teacher whose body was found taped up and half-buried in a sand-filled bathtub, ending a more than two-year manhunt.
Japanese police said Tuesday they had arrested a suspect in the death of a young British woman who was found dead in a bath of sand two years ago.
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Japan Airlines Corp. ’s application for financing from a state-affiliated fund won’t be decided upon before next year, the lender’s president said, delaying the carrier’s restructuring.
A dispute over the relocation of a key US military base in Japan will not be a "dominant" or "essential" feature of President Barack Obama's visit to Tokyo, a senior US official said Monday.
Japanese police on Tuesday said they had arrested the only suspect in the killing of 22-year-old British teacher Lindsay Ann Hawker, more than two years after her murder.
Japan promises additional $5 billion in aid to Afghanistan ahead of Obama visit.
LIMA -(Dow Jones)- President Alan Garcia, in Japan on a state visit, said he will push for Peru and Japan to sign a free-trade pact. Garcia's office said in a statement on Tuesday that Garcia had met with Japan's Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama in Tokyo.
Nearly one-quarter of the US Senate asked President Barack Obama on Monday to press Japan on his upcoming visit about parental abductions, saying Tokyo's policies were an anomaly among developed nations.
TOKYO (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Tuesday told his Japanese counterpart that a commitment by Tokyo to rely less on exports and more on domestic consumption to power growth will benefit the global economy.
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Aeon Co. , Japan’s largest supermarket retailer, plans to raise 100 billion yen ($1.1 billion) from what may be the country’s first public convertible bond sales this year.
Who says packing-in like a sardine can't be swank? Japan's getting yet another capsule hotel, but this one aims to provide something unprecedented: Luxury. As Design Boom reports , the 9h capsule hotel is the project of three years of design work, by Design Studio S , and it's first location will open in December, Kyoto's Shimogyo-ku district. At nine stories tall, the hotel will have 125 ...
