Members of the Senate Appropriations Committee urged Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige to stop relying on the free market to restore American trade balance and instead take retaliatory action against Japanese imports.
often travel to Japan and somehow end up deified there.
The United States and Japan have signed an agreement calling for cooperation in the preliminary
Tom Doi of Granada Hills says his non-Japanese friends are often surprised when he tells them about the Japanese American Community Center in Pacoima.
Japanese alpinist Yoshimasa Wada Friday descended the Matterhorn on skis, and local residents said he was the first to achieve the exploit from the summit of the 14,688-foot peak.
A total of 24,596 people, about two-fifths of them in their 40s and 50s, committed suicide in Japan last year, the National Police Agency said Saturday.
issued by the Japan Ministry of Post and Telecommunications.
This port city, one of the first to welcome foreigners to Japan, will opens its doors to the world
More than 24,000 people killed themselves in Japan last year, slightly fewer than the record set in 1983.
Japan rang up a $3.41-billion trade surplus with the United States in May, second only to the
Japan's economic challenge to the United States has sparked a flurry of American charges that Japan seeks to "dominate" the world.
The Japanese government, under pressure from the United States to strengthen its defense capabilities, today approved a controversial defense plan that is likely to exceed a long-observed ceiling on military spending.
Labor Minister Toshio Yamaguchi says it is difficult to persuade the Japanese to enjoy more leisure time.
Japan and the United States will begin two-week naval war games off Japan on Saturday, involving
Sandy Aughinbaugh of Los Angeles had 18 spikes as the U.S. women's volleyball team beat Japan, 16
Government officials said the decision to reduce the tariffs an average of 22.5% is expected to cost Japan $372 million.
I applaud former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger's attempt (Opinion, Oct. 6) to recast the U.S.
As a Japanese national who was educated at both Japanese and American public schools, I can personally attest to the quality of the Japanese educational system described by Denis P.
As a performer, Heinz Holliger is wondrously persuasive and communicative.
The Japanese Finance Ministry liberalized interest rates and other restrictions as part of the government's continuing effort to deregulate the country's financial system and make the yen a more widely used currency in the world.