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Japan industrial production up 2.5 percent in Dec.
Japan's industrial production picked up pace in December from the month before, in a sign the world's third-largest economy may be stabilizing thanks ...
Tensions linger in US over 'comfort women' plaques
Four years ago, noticing plaques at the county courthouse commemorating slavery, the Holocaust and other atrocities, Korean-American community leader ...
Japan ex-China envoy: Tokyo erred on islands row
Japan's former envoy to China says his country erred in choosing to buy islands claimed by both Japan and China last fall, infuriating Beijing, and ...
Japan's consumer prices fall for fourth year
Japan's consumer prices fell in 2012 for the fourth straight year, highlighting the central bank's challenge in fighting deflation as its governor ...
Japan gives letter to China's Xi in island dispute
A senior envoy handed China's leader a cordial letter from Japan's prime minister Friday in the highest-level contact between the sides since tensions ...
Bank of Japan sets 2 percent inflation target
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe declared a "monetary regime change" Tuesday as the central bank bowed to government pressure, setting a 2 percent ...
Japan talk of warning shots heats up China dispute
Japan says it may fire warning shots and take other measures to keep foreign aircraft from violating its airspace in the latest verbal blast between ...
Adviser hails 'Abenomics,' says dollar can rise
The expert behind the monetary policies of Japan's new prime minister welcomed the recovering stock market and favorable exchange rate as signs of ...
As yen weakens, BOJ gov says easing to persist
The governor of Japan's central bank says it will persist in easing monetary conditions as it tries to pull the country out of a deflationary slump.
New Japan PM: China's island dispute moves 'wrong'
Reaffirming his hawkish stance on China, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Friday that Japan will not negotiate with Beijing over a contested cluster of ...
Japan's Nikkei jumps on Abe's stimulus package
Japan's Nikkei stock index jumped Friday after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced a massive spending package intended to breathe life into the ...
Beset by risks, Japan seeks boost from stimulus
A 20 trillion yen ($224 billion) stimulus package announced Friday by Japan's newly installed prime minister Shinzo Abe will likely give the ...
US urges allies Japan, SKorea to mend ties
A high-level U.S. delegation will urge key allies Japan and South Korea to mend strained ties that have hurt security cooperation. It will also likely ...
Tokyo protests to China over 4 ships near islands
The Japanese government summoned China's ambassador on Tuesday to protest four Chinese maritime surveillance ships that spent about 13 hours in waters ...
US sailors sue Japanese utility over radiation
Eight U.S. sailors are suing the Tokyo utility that operates the Fukushima nuclear power plant, charging that the company lied about the high level ...
New Japan PM: Saving economic crisis top mission
Shinzo Abe took office as Japan's seventh prime minister in six years Wednesday and vowed to overcome the deep-rooted economic and diplomatic crises ...
Asia stocks rise as Japan gets new government
Asian stock markets rose Wednesday as traders snapped up stocks before the end of the year, while the Tokyo benchmark hit a nine-month high after a ...
Japan's Cabinet resigns to make way for new PM
Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's Cabinet resigned Wednesday to clear the way for a vote in parliament to formally install the nation's new leader, ...
Japan's next leader wants freer rein for military
Imagine that North Korea launched a missile at Japan. Tokyo could — and would certainly try to — shoot it down. But if the missile were flying ...
Hopes for new leader to pressure Bank of Japan
Hopes are high in Japan Inc. for the new prime minister. Stocks are recovering. The central bank is set to supercharge an already loose monetary ...
Final goodbye: Roll call of some who died in 2012
Neil Armstrong would always be taking that first step onto the moon, and Dick Clark was forever "the world's oldest teenager." Some of the notables ...
After landslide, Abe says Japan has difficult road
After leading his conservative party to a landslide victory that will bring it back to power after a three-year hiatus, Shinzo Abe stressed Monday ...
Nationalist Shinzo Abe is likely Japan's next PM
The Liberal Democratic Party's victory in Japan's parliamentary election Sunday virtually ensures that Shinzo Abe, who resigned as prime minister for ...
Economic implications of Japan's election
Many in Japan are hoping that the landslide victory of the opposition Liberal Democrats and trouncing of the Democratic Party in Sunday's ...
Conservative party favored as Japanese vote
Japanese were voting Sunday in parliamentary elections that were expected to put the once-dominant conservatives back in power after a three-year ...