In the little wine country towns of Katsunuma, Enzan and Yamanashi, wine is everybody's business.
Japan National Railways said Tuesday that it has fired 20 workers and disciplined 100 for staging an illegal strike that stranded 710,000 commuters.
President Ferdinand E.
Twenty-four people were missing today after a fire swept through an inn in the resort town of Atagawa, then spread to the Atagawa Grand Hotel next door, police said.
A stronger Japanese yen could increase Tiger International's revenue by $24 million through the end of 1986, Robert P.
The Japanese women's national volleyball team defeated the United States, 13-15, 15-13, 15-9, 15-3
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its admittedly weak universities and to foster more analytical thinking, according to a major U.S. study of Japanese schools released today.
Japan's Foreign Ministry has developed a color TV telephone system to improve communications with its embassies around the world, ministry officials said Thursday.
Dataquest, a San Jose market research firm, said its survey of 1986 semiconductor sales showed that for the first time ever, no U.S. firms ranked among the three biggest in the industry.
Japan may be a puzzle to many American business people, but it's extremely attractive to Sym-Tek President Ray Twigg.
The Supreme Court, granting Japanese manufacturers a major victory in a longstanding antitrust
Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone won Cabinet approval Tuesday to call a special session of Parliament, improving his chances of remaining in office beyond the maximum of four years permitted by his Liberal Democratic Party.
Kabuki is a form of total theater, according to Leonard Pronko, who will demonstrate the style at 2:30 p.m.
A Hungarian-born American and a Japanese have been named co-winners of the 1987 Wolf Prize in mathematics, the Wolf Foundation announced Thursday.
Veteran Teruo Sugihara scored his 50th career victory Sunday, winning the $235,300 Tohoku Classic Golf Tournament by two strokes.
More than 1,700 relatives of people killed a year ago in the world's worst single plane disaster gathered in this remote village Sunday for the unveiling of a monument commemorating the 520 victims.
from a Japanese company and would present the proposal to Sun's board of directors today.
The chairmen of Japan's major corporations Wednesday called on the government to stabilize currency rates, spur the economy and open markets wider to foreign goods to end what one industrial chief termed "a state of emergency."
We hardly think of paper as important--except when we can't find a scrap to jot a phone number on or a tissue to dab a nose.