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Japan war shrine reflects ruling party nationalism
Visits by Cabinet ministers and lawmakers to a shrine honoring Japan's war dead, including 14 World War II leaders convicted of atrocities, signal ...
Japan PM lays out next steps in growth revival
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe outlined the next steps of his grand plan for restoring Japan's economic power in a news conference Friday, naming a slew ...
Famed World War II aviators hold final reunion
At 97, retired Lt. Col. Richard Cole can still fly and land a vintage B-25 with a wide grin and a wave out the cockpit window to amazed onlookers.
As US talks up diplomacy, NKorea takes hard line
The United States and Japan opened the door Sunday to new nuclear talks with North Korea if the saber-rattling country lowered tensions and honored ...
Suu Kyi visit highlights Japan's Myanmar push
Japan's long-deferred aspirations for a larger role in Myanmar are getting a boost this coming week with a visit by Nobel Peace Prize laureate and ...
Japanese flock to Murakami book with mystery title
Japanese readers are flocking to buy Haruki Murakami's latest novel, even though almost nothing has been disclosed about the book by one of the ...
Japan increasingly nervous about North Korea nukes
It's easy to write off North Korea's threats to strike the United States with a nuclear-tipped missile as bluster: It has never demonstrated the ...
Japan PM's biggest test on economy still to come
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is about to find out that bending central bankers to his will was the easy part of jolting Japan's economy out of its two ...
United delays Denver-Toyko service as 787s sit
United Airlines is delaying its new Denver-Tokyo service — again — because its new Boeing 787 jets remain grounded. United said Friday that service ...
Asian giants tiptoe toward free trade deal
China, Japan and South Korea are inching ahead with talks for a free trade zone that would rival the European Union and North America in economic heft
Japan, EU agree to start free-trade negotiations
Japan and the European Union agreed Monday to start negotiations for a free-trade pact encompassing nations that account for nearly a third of the ...
Istanbul hopes to impress IOC panel with 2020 bid
After four unsuccessful attempts, Istanbul is ready to pitch its bid for the 2020 Olympics by stressing Turkey's robust economy, plans for modern ...
Pritzker Prize winner Ito seeks ideas in nature
When he says why he especially likes Sendai Mediatheque, the public library that ranks among his most famous works, Toyo Ito, the Japanese architect ...
Japanese architect Toyo Ito wins Pritzker Prize
Japanese architect Toyo Ito, whose buildings have been praised for their fluid beauty and balance between the physical and virtual world, has won the ...
Japan to join talks on Pacific trade pact
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced Friday that Japan will join talks on a Pacific trade pact that would oblige the country to open up sheltered ...
Recovery slow as Japan marks 2 years since tsunami
Amid growing dissatisfaction with the slow pace of recovery, Japan marked the second anniversary Monday of the devastating earthquake and tsunami that ...
Protesters in Tokyo demand end to nuclear power
Thousands of people rallied in a Tokyo park Saturday, demanding an end to atomic power and vowing never to give up the fight, despite two years of ...
Tsunami-hit towns still barren as rebuilding lags
Like tens of thousands of people who lost everything in the tsunami that pulverized Japan's northeastern coast two years ago, 83-year-old Hide Sato ...
ANA president sees Boeing progress on batteries
The president of All Nippon Airways, Boeing's biggest single customer for its troubled 787 Dreamliner, said Friday that he believes the U.S.
IOC panel sets off on visits to 2020 bid cities
Seven months before the vote, the International Olympic Committee is sending a panel of experts on a series of site-inspection visits that could prove ...
Boeing reports 787 battery fix to Japan regulators
Boeing CEO Ray Conner met with Japan's transport minister and other officials in Tokyo on Thursday to explain his company's proposal for resolving ...
Istanbul bid wants wrestling back for 2020 Games
The head of Istanbul's bid for the 2020 Olympics hopes a winning vote coincides with wrestling's reinstatement. The International Olympic Committee ...
PM says 'Japan's back,' vows stronger ties with US
Japan's new prime minister declared Friday he would make his country a stronger U.S. ally and joined President Barack Obama in warning North Korea ...
United Airlines drops 787 through June 5
United Airlines cut the grounded Boeing 787 from its flying plans at least until June and postponed its new Denver-to-Tokyo flights on Thursday, as ...
Japan expert, writer Donald Richie dies at 88
Donald Richie, a Tokyo-based expert on Japanese cinema who wrote dozens of books and articles about the country's people and culture, has died at age ...