Fifty-four people were sickened by toxic fumes at a hospital in southern Japan Wednesday when a man vomited after drinking pesticide to commit suicide.
Hello Kitty, Japan's ubiquitous ambassador of cute, has built up an impressive resume over the years. Global marketing phenom. Fashion diva. Pop culture icon.
A U.S. Marine pleaded guilty Friday to abusive sexual contact with a child under 16, bringing to a close a criminal case that stoked outrage in Japan, a Marine spokesman said.
The United States topped world competitiveness rankings for the 15th straight year, but its economy is showing the same signs of weakness that sank booming Japan in the early 1990s, according to an annual survey released Thursday.
Police found three men dead in a car parked outside a spa Monday morning -- the latest in a string of suicides involving detergent, officials said.
Chinese President Hu Jintao makes China's highest-level visit to Japan in a decade this week to stabilize newly warming ties between the longtime rivals, in a trip likely to gloss over the knotty issues that bedeviled relations for years.
The country prided itself on its domestic dairy industry and protected it with tariffs and market-manipulation. Now, however, it has a shortage on its hands
A 24-year-old Japanese man killed himself by mixing laundry detergent and cleaning fluids, releasing noxious fumes into the air and forcing the evacuation of hundreds of people from their homes.
Japan's central bank decided Wednesday to keep its key interest rate unchanged amid lingering worries about a global slowdown.
Japanese shares fell Wednesday as investors sold commodity stocks, although investors were cautious ahead of an announcement by the Federal Reserve on interest rates.
Fifty-four people were sickened by toxic fumes at a hospital in southern Japan Wednesday when a man vomited after drinking pesticide to commit suicide.
Hello Kitty, Japan's ubiquitous ambassador of cute, has built up an impressive resume over the years. Global marketing phenom. Fashion diva. Pop culture icon.
A U.S. Marine pleaded guilty Friday to abusive sexual contact with a child under 16, bringing to a close a criminal case that stoked outrage in Japan, a Marine spokesman said.
The United States topped world competitiveness rankings for the 15th straight year, but its economy is showing the same signs of weakness that sank booming Japan in the early 1990s, according to an annual survey released Thursday.
Police found three men dead in a car parked outside a spa Monday morning -- the latest in a string of suicides involving detergent, officials said.
Chinese President Hu Jintao makes China's highest-level visit to Japan in a decade this week to stabilize newly warming ties between the longtime rivals, in a trip likely to gloss over the knotty issues that bedeviled relations for years.
The country prided itself on its domestic dairy industry and protected it with tariffs and market-manipulation. Now, however, it has a shortage on its hands
A 24-year-old Japanese man killed himself by mixing laundry detergent and cleaning fluids, releasing noxious fumes into the air and forcing the evacuation of hundreds of people from their homes.
Japan's central bank decided Wednesday to keep its key interest rate unchanged amid lingering worries about a global slowdown.
Japanese shares fell Wednesday as investors sold commodity stocks, although investors were cautious ahead of an announcement by the Federal Reserve on interest rates.
The Olympic flame relay through Nagano, Japan, kicked off with little incident on Saturday despite concerns over anti-China protests that have threatened the torch along its journey to host city Beijing.
The U.S. military in Japan has charged a Marine with rape and other violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice in the alleged sexual assault of 14-year old girl in Okinawa.
A 14-year-old Japanese girl killed herself by mixing laundry detergent with cleanser, releasing fumes that also sickened 90 people in her apartment house, police said Thursday as they grappled with a spate of similar suicides.
Security concerns and sympathy toward Tibetans prompted a Buddhist temple in Nagano, Japan, to withdraw from participation in the Olympic torch relay next week, a temple official said on Friday.
Anti-whaling groups have claimed partial victory in their attempts to disrupt Japan's annual whale hunt in Antarctic waters.
At first glance, the man and woman at the nightclub look like any other couple on a date. He flirts and pours champagne. She looks at him and laughs.
Major League baseball gets big crowds and a boost from its trip to Japan. But Japan's own baseball league isn't so thrilled
Political gridlock in the Japanese parliament means the country has no central bank chief for the first time since WW II
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Corporate earnings and consumer spending in the world's second-largest economy may be adversely affected by the weakness of the dollar
Anti-whaling protesters hurled containers of butyric acid at a Japanese whaling ship in Antarctic waters, injuring four crew members, a Japanese official said Monday.
Japan will lobby a dozen members of the International Whaling Commission at a meeting Monday to support its much-criticized Antarctic whaling program -- just three days before all members of the commission meet in London to discuss reaching an agreement on whale conservation rules.
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger: That should be the motto for anyone doing PR for a car company these days. Luckily for Carlos Ghosn, president and CEO of Nissan, he has the ultimate spin doctor at his side. Simon Sproule, a Brit based in Japan, traverses the globe ensuring that the world pays proper attention to Nissan's ongoing revival.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in Japan on Wednesday on a mission to smooth tensions created by rape allegations against two U.S. service members and to try to jump-start stalled North Korean nuclear talks.
Japan launched a rocket Saturday carrying a satellite that will test new technology that promises to deliver "super high-speed Internet" service to homes and businesses around the world.
Ah, Valentine's Day! That time of the year when the pressure's on to show you really, really care.
Chinese-made frozen food has sickened ten people in Japan, prompting recalls and charges of deliberate poisoning. But both governments are eager to avoid escalating the conflict
Japan has resumed whaling in the waters near Antarctica -- only days after groups hoping to stop it left the area, Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade told CNN on Friday.
The Japanese navy deployed the first of two ships Thursday to resume the country's refueling mission in support of the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan, the Kyodo news agency reported.
Japan has "temporarily halted" its much-criticized plan for a humpback whale hunt in the seas near Antarctica, said the chief Japanese government spokesman on Friday.
While the U.S. and others focus on North Korea's nuclear weapons, Japan is worried that the issue of North Korea's abduction of its citizens is falling by the wayside
Sorry to drop another U2 reference here, but sometimes we feel stuck in a moment and we can't get out of it. We'll again explain that these rankings aren't about who the top-to-bottom best teams on earth are, since that hardly changes over a season. This is about the shifts in power across the footballing world.
Japanese vessels set sail on their largest-scale whale hunt in decades. Is it for research? Out of sheer stubbornness? Or is it even about the whales at all?
Financial scandals force the closure of Japan's largest chain of English language schools, leaving many of its foreign teachers out of work -- and up in arms
Japan ordered its mission in support of the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan, after the government failed to reach an agreement with parliament to extend it.
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger: That should be the motto for anyone doing PR for a car company these days. Luckily for Carlos Ghosn, president and CEO of Nissan, he has the ultimate spin doctor at his side. Simon Sproule, a Brit based in Japan, traverses the globe ensuring that the world pays proper attention to Nissan's ongoing revival. He also likes to pull off stealth PR schemes: In July he quietly entered the not-yet-unveiled 2009 Nissan GTR in Britain's tony Goodwood Festival of Speed. The much-anticipated 450-horsepower fiend rocketed up the hill, to the crowd's astonishment. Given the nomadic nature of his work, he has had only one permanent home in the past seven years (in Laguna Beach, Calif.) and estimates that he spends about 20 days a year there. We chased down Sproule, who has been featured in Japanese GQ twice and in Maquia magazine as one of Japan's most eligible bachelors, to learn how he makes the most of life on the road.
After the Abe implosion, the gray-headed factions seemed destined to recover their hold on power
Japan expressed confidence in its economic recovery in a monthly government report released Friday, while acknowledging worries about the U.S. economy - Japan's biggest export market - and domestic business spending.
Japan's gross domestic product for the April-June quarter declined 1.2 percent on an annual basis, the government said Monday as it revised downward a preliminary estimate of 0.5 percent growth for the quarter. The adjustment marks the first contraction in growth for three quarters.
Japan and North Korea will hold talks on establishing diplomatic relations next week in Ulan Bator, Japanese Foreign Ministry officials said on Tuesday. The two-day talks from September 5 will be held as part of a six-country deal to scrap Pyongyang's nuclear-arms programs in exchange for aid and diplomatic recognition.
Ryo Kanekubo tied the game with a solo homer in the fifth inning and delivered a game-ending grand slam in the bottom of the sixth as Japan rallied to a 7-4 win over Curacao and advanced to the championship game of the Little League World Series on Saturday at Lamade Stadium.
With Asia's biggest powers set to launch their first unmanned lunar missions -- possibly as early as next month -- the countdown has begun in the hottest space race in decades
Asian stocks headed for their biggest weekly fall in nearly a decade on Friday as stubborn credit fears drove investors away from risky trades, despite a dramatic late rebound on Wall Street.
Japan's economy grew an anemic 0.1 percent in the April-June quarter, reinforcing a growing expectation that a shakeout in global markets will prompt the central bank to rethink a rate hike this month.
Newly in charge of the upper house of the legislature, an opposition leader calls for an end to Japanese involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan. His target is Prime Minister Abe, but his country's alliance with the U.S. could suffer collateral damage
The magnitude 6.8 earthquake that hit on Monday morning is rocking the country's faith in its nuclear power plants
Microsoft Corp. has no plans now to cut the price of its Xbox game console in Japan, where it trails far behind rival machines from Nintendo Co. Ltd. and Sony Corp.
A Frenchwoman has helped Japan return as a Miss Universe superpower. But are her proteges Japanese enough?
Wall Street was poised to start Monday's session in positive territory after a Texas utility giant said it agreed to be taken private in a $32 billion deal.
The dollar climbed to near a four-year high against the yen Thursday after Japan's central bank held rates steady, but it slipped against the euro.
Tsunami alerts issued for the Pacific Basin due to a massive underwater earthquake were lifted hours later Saturday when only minor surges resulted.
CNN's Richard Quest offers some tips and travel advice for fellow business travellers to Japan.
All Japanese ports will be closed to North Korean vessels, according to new sanctions approved Friday by the Japanese Cabinet in response to the North's claimed nuclear test this week.
A jittery Japan has apparently mistaken earthquake activity off its own coast for a tremor indicating a second nuclear test in North Korea.
The annual trade show known as Combined Exhibition of Advanced Technologies (CEATEC), under way here this week, is the Japanese equivalent of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), except about two years more advanced. We've come here, along with some 200,000 gadget-happy Japanese consumers, to see what American consumers might expect to see at home in 2008.
Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corporation ranks no. 24 on FORTUNE's Global 500 this year, with $94.9 billion in revenues, down 5.6% from the previous year. The Tokyo, Japan-based company was ranked no. 18 on the 2005 list. Its 2005 profits were $4.4 billion, down 33.3% from a year earlier. 2005 was a banner year for most Global 500 companies.
Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party has elected Shinzo Abe as its new president , virtually assuring him of the role of succeeding Junichiro Koizumi as prime minister of Japan on September 26.
Like a comforting fairytale, the birth Wednesday of the Chrysanthemum throne's first male heir in 40 years has saved Japan's imperial family from a succession crisis -- seconds before the biological clock struck midnight.
Soft power, or the art of influencing people to like you, is a growing part of Japan's perennial balancing act with the world.
The following is a look at the relations between Japan and some of its most important regional neighbors.
The dollar touched a one-month high against the yen Friday after weak inflation numbers in Japan dashed hopes the Japanese central bank would continue raising interest rates.
Japan is lodging a "strong protest" with Moscow after Russian border security guards fired on a Japanese crab boat in disputed waters, killing a fisherman.
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Japan still wants a United Nations resolution on North Korea's missile tests that includes sanctions, Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe said on Friday, Reuters news agency reported.
China has described Japanese efforts to pass a U.N. resolution that would impose sanctions on North Korea for conducting missile tests an "overreaction," recommending the draft be revised.
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Japan will protest North Korea's missile test launches to the U.N. Security Council, Japan's chief Cabinet secretary said, and the United States called the tests "provocative."
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Wednesday an agreement has been reached with Japan to restart U.S. beef exports, pending planned inspections of meat-processing plants by Japanese officials, the Nikkei reported.
Japan will withdraw its ground troops from Iraq, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has announced.
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A strong earthquake shook southwest Japan early Monday, but a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey said it was unlikely to have done serious damage.
When Baskin-Robbins offered free scoops of ice cream for two hours on Japan's Ice Cream Day last month, 700,000 customers showed up at its 750 stores. But the hottest new thing in ice-cream-crazed ...
Japan's economy grew at an annual rate of 1.9 percent in the first three months of 2006, topping economists' expectations, the Cabinet Office said Friday.
John Kenneth Galbraith died in April at the age of 97. Always the enemy of inequality, he left a lasting legacy of economic thought and social commentary.
Japan and the United States have reached an agreement that will clear the way for the departure of thousands of American Marines from Okinawa.
Japan's boom in dog ownership is spurring a new business trend, according to media reports: an increasing number of canine fitness clubs.
Following is the full text of the joint statement issued by Australia, Japan and the United States following a trilateral "strategic dialogue" in Sydney on Saturday.
The dollar continued to slide against the yen Monday, hitting a one-month low, as speculation builds that Japan will soon raise interest rates and begin to tighten up its loose monetary policy.
Bond prices fell Thursday, lifting corresponding yields, after a report underscoring a healthy labor market sparked inflation fears.
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Ueno station in Tokyo is the place to catch Japan's famous high-speed bullet trains, but as the destination for more than 700,000 people-a-day, it's also a place travelers might want to escape from in search of somewhere more peaceful.
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.2 has struck off the east coast of Honshu, Japan's main island, the U.S. Geological Survey says.
The dollar climbed to a 27-month high against the yen and a two-year peak against the euro Monday as investors bet that U.S. interest rates will remain more attractive than in Europe or Japan.
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The world's second-largest economy, Japan, is growing at an annualized rate of 3.3 percent, according to new figures released by the government on Monday.
The dollar slid Monday as overseas funds raced to buy yen-denominated stocks on optimism for an economic recovery in Japan, while Treasury bonds fell.
A strong earthquake struck northern Japan Tuesday, injuring at least 39 people, three of them seriously, police said.
Asians are generally supportive of their neighbors' economic and political advancement, although the support is not unanimous, according to the latest findings of a CNN/Time poll.
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Asian stock markets ended mostly higher Tuesday, with most indexes sticking very near Monday's levels after U.S. markets were closed for the Memorial Day holiday.
Only team players will succeed in Japan's group-oriented culture. The country has a very formal, hierarchical culture.
On May 4 in 1919, students in Beijing launched a nationwide movement against imperialism and a government that had failed to stand up to the West and Japan.
More bodies, including possibly that of the driver, have been found in the twisted metal debris left behind Monday when a commuter train jumped the tracks and crashed into an apartment building in western Japan.
Investigators looking into the most deadly train accident in Japan in 40 years say they were treating the crash as "possible criminal negligence."
A packed commuter train left the tracks and slammed into an apartment building, killing 50 people and injuring more than 340 others in Japan's deadliest rail accident in four decades.
Japanese investigators are probing the cause of a commuter train crash that has left at least 73 people dead and hundreds more injured.
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