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Mr Okada insisted that the seven-month-old government, led by the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), was committed to Tokyo's alliance with the US and determined ... However, the foreign minister ...

TOKYO (AP) -- Asian stocks moved higher in early trade Monday, after broad gains in the U.S. on Friday defied investors who have been predicting a fall in share prices. ...

April 26 (Bloomberg) -- Asian stocks rose, driving up the MSCI Asia Pacific Index by the most in almost six weeks, as Toyota Motor Corp. and Canon Inc ... s ...

... on Friday said it wanted to tap a rescue package from 15 European countries and the International Monetary Fund. Dow Jones industrial average futures rose 27, or 0.2 percent, ...

TOKYO, April 20 (AP) - (Kyodo)—A 49-year-old man is sitting in near parliament house in Tokyo on a 72-hour hunger strike to oppose a relocation within Okinawa Prefecture of the ...

TOKYO — Three electric cabs began a 90-day trial in Tokyo on Monday ... in Japan, they account for 20 percent of the nation's carbon dioxide emissions, said Kiyotaka Fujii, ...

Once again, Japan's legions of "otaku" geeks and gamers are asking themselves "Hmm, might I find a cute companion at the Tokyo Game Show?" Surprisingly, the answer is a resounding ...

TOKYO, April 19 (AP) - (Kyodo)—The U.S. dollar dropped to a three-week low in the upper 91 yen level Monday in Tokyo amid stock market falls in the United States ...

Tokyo stocks tumbled Monday, with the key Nikkei index closing below the 11,000 line for the first time in three weeks, on risk aversion triggered by falls Friday on Wall ...

TOKYO, April 15 (Reuters) - Japanese manufacturers' sentiment hit its highest level in two years as robust exports continued to drive the economic recovery, a Reuters poll showed, but they ...