The Reagan Administration has extended until July 26 a deadline for resolving a dispute with the Japanese on semiconductor trade after six days of intensive talks failed to produce a final agreement, U.S. officials said today.
Reiko Sakai flies home today, ending a journey that brought her more than 5,000 miles to pray at the grave of a woman she never met.
The government said it appreciated U.S.
Arizona and Stanford will meet Sunday in Japan's Coca-Cola Bowl, a game in which the spectators will receive pointers on cheering.
Japan announced Saturday that it will continue to extend "most favored nation" trading status to
A middle-level executive of Fuji Xerox, a joint-venture subsidiary of Xerox Corp., recently approached Naomi Horoiwa, who is in charge of the firm's training and development, with a complaint about studying English.
Undersecretary of Commerce Bruce Smart warned Japan on Thursday that failure to reduce its "huge
A strong earthquake struck Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido on Wednesday, knocking products off shop shelves in the port city of Kushiro but causing no significant damage, authorities said.
The decision to drop barriers to orange imports while maintaining beef quotas after the U.S.
The dollar slid on world currency markets Tuesday, hitting four- to seven-year lows against five other major currencies.
Koreans were astonished to learn last December that Nissho Iwai, a large Japanese trading company, had given a Korean shipyard an $88-million order for four ships of 30,000 tons each.
The past, though it may be dead, is seldom allowed to rest undisturbed.
Representatives of Japanese companies, U.S. businesses that use Japanese parts and even some U.S. police agencies argued today against proposed tariffs of up to 100% on selected Japanese electronics products.
United States to lift its sanctions against Japan, a high-ranking ministry official said Thursday.
Japan and West Germany are beginning to succeed in cutting their huge trade surpluses with the United States, but more rapid progress is needed, U.S.
It was the first drop in two years and two months, the government said.
Businessman Taishi Sato hopes to dispel the long-held notion here that foreign rice does not taste as good as the Japanese variety, and eventually he would like to open a chain of retail outlets selling what he calls "cheap and delicious California rice."
Yasuhiro Nakasone, in his fifth year as an unusually energetic Japanese prime minister, is a lame duck politically.
The Japanese National Railways will end a 115-year history today and officially dissolve into nearly a dozen private companies.
A koala bear Sunday became the fifth of its species to die in Japanese zoos since 25 were imported from Australia in October, 1984.