Japan is studying an Indonesian request for joint development of a commercial flying boat for use
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It has been a year since Japan promised to liberalize its financial market and gradually
Toshio Komoto, a Cabinet minister who in effect owns Sanko Steamship Co., offered to resign Monday because of financial troubles at the company, one of the world's largest operators of oil tankers, an aide said.
French deep-sea explorers who took part in a 42-day submarine mission with Japan said the project
In Kobe, Japan, Jon Sieben, Olympic champion in the men's 200-meter butterfly, beat Matt Biondi of
venture to build different kinds of housing for the elderly in Japan.
Transportation Ministry experts examining the wreckage of the crashed Japan Air Lines jumbo jet
restrictions on U.S. computers, and officials in Tokyo said his charge of unfair trade practices by Japan on leather and tobacco was groundless.
The U.S. dollar plunged today to a 4 1/2-year low against the Japanese yen and to its lowest level in more than a year against most major European currencies.
Japan will cut its tariff on imported wine next April, one year earlier than planned, to help ease
The government ruled Tuesday that the partially state-owned Japan Air Lines must give up its 15
The Australian government has called in a powerful Japanese icebreaker to free a research ship trapped by Antarctic ice for more than a month.
An avalanche carrying tons of snow plummeted on a party of five mountain climbers in northern Japan
The skies United Airlines flies may be as friendly as the ads say, but the welcome the giant U.S. carrier received on the ground here was positively cool.
Regardless of its government's decision to hold down exports for a sixth year, the Japanese auto industry is headed "into the swamp" thanks to the decline in the exchange rate of the dollar and the sharp drop in oil prices, General Motors Chairman Roger Smith said Thursday in Los Angeles.
There is a Japanese supercomputer performing more than 1 billion mathematical calculations per second in Houston these days, and it represents a significant challenge to U.S. dominance of one of the highest peaks in high technology.
The Supreme Court today killed a lawsuit by American businesses that charges Japanese electronics manufacturers with illegally "dumping" television sets and other products in the United States at artificially low prices.
Police in western Japan searched Monday for an assailant who burst into a regional office of a
island near this industrial city in western Japan, represents the air terminal of the future, aviation experts say.