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TOKYO, May 10 (Reuters) - A Bank of Japan deputy governor said on Monday that central banks around the world had set up dollar swap arrangements with the Federal Reserve ...

TOKYO — Experts say North Korea’s submarine fleet is technologically backward, prone to sinking or running aground and all but useless outside its own coastal waters. And yet many are ...

... bank notes in Tokyo. The Bank of Japan on Monday offered two trillion yen (21.6 billion dollars) in liquidity to financial institutions for a second trading day in a ...

... past, Tokyo has been reluctant to pursue nuclear business in India. Some policy makers and nuclear disarmament advocates in Japan ... China, have not agreed to end production of ...

NEW YORK -- A hydraulic problem has forced a Tokyo-bound Continental Airlines plane to make an emergency landing shortly after takeoff at New Jersey's Newark Liberty International Airport. Port Authority ...

NEWARK – A Continental Airlines jet bound for Tokyo encountered a hydraulic problem after departing from Newark Liberty Airport on Sunday morning and had to return, according to the airline. ...

Clearly it’s a substantial package,” said Lee Hardman, a foreign-exchange strategist at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd. in London. “The steps are a positive development for risk appetite, and we ...

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan's government on Monday dropped an end-of-May deadline Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama had set for resolving a row over the relocation of a U.S. Marine base, Kyodo ...

China Typhoon, Tokyo Earthquake Pummel Asia Moving in after a destructive bout in the Philippines, Typhoon Morakot inflicted damage on eastern China today while Tokoyo experienced a strong earthquake. 7.1 ...

TOKYO, May 3 (AP) - (Kyodo)—Supporters of Japan's postwar Constitution urged the government on Monday to leave the war-renouncing Constitution in its present form for future generations, while those advocating ...