Debbie Mueller of the United States finished 2 1/2 minutes ahead of Eefje Van Wissen of the Netherlands Sunday and won the women's championship in the 30-kilometer (18.6-mile) Ome Marathon--a race with 11,121 runners.
Sakurajima Volcano in southern Japan erupted for the 51st time this year, spewing forth stones that
Students of Japanese business management may soon have to revise their textbooks.
Japanese trade officials today brushed aside harsh international and domestic criticism of their decision to keep restraints on auto exports to the United States but at the same time relaxing them to allow the sale of 25% more vehicles this year than in 1984.
Japan accounted for about one-third of the $123-billion trade deficit that the United States ran
Japanese college football coaches will receive a firsthand look at American coaching techniques when two Claremont-Mudd-Scripps coaches visit the Orient from April 19 through May 8.
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Hiromi Taniguchi of Japan won the men's division in the London Marathon, and Ingrid Kristiansen won
The personal representative of Japan's prime minister, taking his country's case for relief from U.S. economic sanctions to President Reagan, said today that "it is Japan's responsibility to discharge what is expected of it."
Yomiuri: We think that U.S.-Japan relations are facing a crucial period.
Japan held $180.3 billion in net foreign assets at the end of 1986, surpassing the highest U.S
Toshihiko Seko of Japan left a pack of world class runners on Heartbreak Hill today and went on to
Japan Travel-Phone offers direct telephone service to anyone in need of English-speaking help in
Takuya Muguruma of Japan knocked out Azael Moran of Panama in the fifth round to win the vacant
stage of the Japan America Theatre with orders to make ensemble music.
Japan's minister of international trade and industry said Wednesday that he and U.S.
Japan's looming economic discomfiture and the possibility of the need for major retrenchment and restructuring are bringing with it an age-old Western bane and poison: anti-Semitism.
Nihon Keizai Shimbun Inc., Japan's leading economic daily newspaper, will begin publishing a U.S. edition via satellite transmission from Tokyo on May 1, officials said today.
Four Japanese fishing boats were fired on by a warship of an unidentified country Monday in the Yellow Sea, the Japanese Maritime Safety Agency said Tuesday.
Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone today left open the possibility of providing Japanese money for international efforts to ensure the safety of Persian Gulf shipping.