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TOKYO (AP) -- Anti-whaling activists have been staging protests today as the mother ship of Japan's whaling fleet sets out for the Antarctic on the country's annual hunt. The environmental ...

TOKYO -- Highlighting its urgent need for operating cash, General Motors Corp. said Monday it sold its remaining 3% stake in Japan's Suzuki Motor Corp. on the open Tokyo stock ...

TOKYO — Japan, the world’s second-largest economy, has officially slipped into recession, hurt by weak export growth and steep cuts in corporate spending amid the worsening global slowdown. Japan’s gross ...

Today is undoubtedly Core i7 day, as the Santa Clara, California-based chip maker is to officially introduce its next-generation desktop processors, designed on the proprietary Nehalem microarchitecture. The new processors ...

HONG KONG (MarketWatch)-- Rental prices in new office buildings in Tokyo fell for the first time in six years, according to an October survey conducted by Nikkei Inc. An index ...

BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Asian stock markets were narrowly mixed Monday as confirmation Japan had slipped into recession emphasized the gloomy outlook for the world economy. A weekend meeting of ...

WASHINGTON - The country is sinking deeper into the economic doldrums, and it's likely to stay there for a while. That's part of the latest outlook from forecasters in a ...

TOKYO — Japan, the world’s second-largest economy, has officially slipped into recession, hurt by weak export growth and steep cuts in corporate spending amid the worsening global slowdown. Japan’s gross ...

TOKYO -- A Japanese whaling ship left a port in southwestern Japan on Monday en route to this season's whale hunt in the Antarctic Ocean, the environmental group Greenpeace said. ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - General Motors will sell back its 3 percent stake in Suzuki Motor for 2 million (155 million pounds) as part of the struggling U.S. automaker's ...