country health-care products and medical equipment, an area in which U.S. companies clearly have world leadership and Japan lags.
Japan posted a record monthly trade surplus of $8.22 billion in July, shattering any prospect of a
. postmaster general, are gaining popularity in Japan, where they are known as 2-by-4s because of the size of lumber used in building them.
Toyota Motor Corp. of Japan said it expects to report a sharp drop in its fiscal 1986 profit, due
Two weeks in Japan for $1,141, including air fare.
An excursion bus carrying 21 people smashed into a trailer near Kobe in western Japan on Wednesday, injuring 16 people, one seriously, police said.
over the Seibu Lions Sunday in the Japan World Series.
Japan's powerful government bureaucrats, angry at a constant barrage of overseas criticism of their country's economic policies, are pushing Tokyo toward a more aggressive stance in negotiations with its trading partners.
New Soviet Ambassador to Japan Nikolai N.
The first joint appearance of two locally based folk ensembles--Karpatok and Avaz--promised to be a stimulating juxtaposition of divergent approaches to ethnic performance.
The last time Mieko Akiyama saw her brother Yosuke was on Aug. 13, 1945, when they were among the Japanese settlers fleeing in horse-drawn carts from Soviet troops in northern China.
Friday on a hilly road in eastern Japan, killing five and seriously injuring four others, police said.
Japan and the United States have agreed that the appreciation of Japan's currency, the yen, against
Two people died and five were injured Tuesday when a landslide sent tons of rock plummeting onto a road near Asahikawa on Japan's Hokkaido Island, police said.
A 53-ton Japanese fishing boat sank after colliding with a Maltese freighter Saturday northeast of Tokyo, and one fisherman was missing, a maritime official said.
from a triumphant tour of Japan--his second in a year--leading his own group.
A troupe from the Mark Taper Forum has just completed a brief Japanese tour, which seems to have been a critical success.
Commissioner Tatsuo Saito of Japan abruptly quit the International Whaling Commission today to
saying Japan needs to maintain its ban on commercial rice imports, the mass-circulation newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun reported Monday.
it will make its first tour abroad in 12 years when it goes to Japan in May and June of 1988.