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Japan is considering withdrawing from the 2018 World Cup bidding race to concentrate on getting the 2022 tournament. "We are considering making an announcement," bid spokesman Tetsu Hirai told The Associated Press on Friday. Japan would join Indonesia, Qatar and South Korea as Asian bidders for 2022.
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- American Airlines, seeking to keep Japan Airlines Corp. in the Oneworld alliance, proposed a $1.1 billion investment that it valued at twice as much as an offer led by Delta Air Lines Inc.
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.
Japan’s Nikkei stock average closed above 10,000 on Friday for the first time in five weeks and rose 10.4 percent on the week, its biggest weekly gain in over a year, with exporters such as Canon rising, Reuters reported.
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- The Japanese government may delay an economic stimulus package after members of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama’s coalition said the proposed plan was insufficient.
Japanese stocks extended gains Friday as the yen cooled, with the benchmark Nikkei 225 stock index finishing above the 10,000 line for the first time in five weeks.
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Most Japanese stocks fell as an unexpected contraction in U.S. service industries raised concern the economic recovery is fragile and Takefuji Corp. plunged on speculation the consumer lender is short of funds.
Back from orbit and ready to market, Space beer is splashing down for selected brewski-nauts in Japan this month.
Japan's All Nippon Airways (9202.T) said it and fellow StarAlliance members United Airlines and Continental Airlines plan to apply for antitrust immunity to allow closer cooperation on transpacific routes.
TODAY Sacramento State's Japan Club and members of the community will spend this Sunday folding one thousand paper cranes to send to the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum in Japan. Sunday's event will be the Japan Club's second annual Origami-A-Thon. The Origami-A-Thon aims to promote world peace by folding one thousand paper cranes held together by strings.
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Hong Kong, one of the world’s most densely populated areas, is looking to Tokyo for a solution to a perennial issue -- what to do with the dead.
Suntory, the Japanese brewer, agreed to buy a South Carolina-based Pepsi bottler in an effort to increase its overseas presence.
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Japanese 20-year bonds fell for a second day, completing the first weekly drop in a month, on concern debt sales will increase next year.
American Airlines upped the ante in the tug-of-war over Japan Airlines, vowing Thursday to lead a $1.1 billion investment in the struggling carrier to prevent it from falling into the orbit of rival D ...
Armed with a host of Olympic gold medalists, China is expected to dominate the East Asian Games that officially kick off in Hong Kong on Saturday, but Japan, South Korea and North Korea will offer stiff competition in some sports. Among the Olympic champions in the Chinese squad are hurdler Liu Xiang, divers Guo Jingjing and Wu Minxia, swimmer Liu Zige and badminton star Lin Dan.
Japan’s Nikkei stock average closed above 10,000 on Friday for the first time in five weeks and rose 10.4 percent on the week, its biggest weekly gain in over a year.
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