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TOKYO: Tokyo share prices gained 1.42 per cent in morning trade on Monday after Japan drafted a record budget to revive the economy and President George W Bush offered a ...

TOKYO: Japan's football chief has vowed to bid for the World Cup finals in 2018 or 2022, despite Tokyo's candidacy to host the 2016 Summer Olympics, press reports said Monday. ...

HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- Asian markets finished mostly lower Monday as investors took home some profits generated by recent stock advances, though Japanese shares were propped up by automakers such ...

TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - It's a smashing sort of therapy for the stressed: a Japanese entrepreneur is offering those strained by the financial crisis a chance to vent by hurling ...

TOKYO (AP) — A monument to some and a monstrosity to others, Tokyo Tower is turning 50. The 1,092-foot, 6-inch (333-meter) tower in the heart of Tokyo will mark its ...

TOKYO (AP) — A monument to some and a monstrosity to others, Tokyo Tower is turning 50. The 1,092-foot, 6-inch (333-meter) tower in the heart of Tokyo will mark its ...

Toyota Motor Co. President Katsuaki Watanabe speaks during the year-end press conference at Japan's leading automaker's office in Nagoya, central Japan, Monday, Dec. 22, 2008. Toyota slashed its profit forecast ...

Dec. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Toyota Motor Corp. , the world’s second-largest automaker, forecast its first operating loss in 71 years on plummeting demand, prompting Moody’s Investors Service to consider downgrading ...

Tokyo, Dec 22: Japan had asked US to be ready to attack China with nuclear weapons in 1965, if Tokyo engaged in a war with Beijing, Japanese diplomatic documents declassified ...

TOKYO, Dec 22 (Reuters) - French nuclear reactor builder Areva will work together with Japanese machinery conglomerate Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd and others to produce nuclear fuel in Japan, the ...