Japan's PM Abe defends policies as markets settle
Japan's top leaders are defending the economic strategies championed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, though the central bank chief acknowledged a need ...
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 war shrine visits anger China, South Korea
Dozens of Japanese lawmakers paid homage at a national war shrine Tuesday morning, risking more anger from neighbors South Korea and China over visits ...
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 ...
IMF chief says global pro-growth policies needed
The head of the International Monetary Fund says the United States, Europe, Japan and China all need to make adjustments to their current economic ...
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 ...
Japan's central bank chief vows to end deflation
The newly installed governor of Japan's central bank said Thursday that he plans to do whatever he can to end deflation and break the economy out of ...
ADB president nominated to head Japan central bank
Japan's prime minister Shinzo Abe vowed to push ahead with more aggressive monetary easing as he Thursday nominated Haruhiko Kuroda to head the ...
SKorea's 1st female leader yet to hire many women
The country with the developed world's biggest gender income gap now has its first female president, but Park Geun-hye already has South Koreans ...
First female SKorean president faces NKorea crisis
Park Geun-hye took office as South Korea's first female president Monday, returning to the presidential mansion she had known as the daughter of a ...
Q&A: Currency the latest threat to global economy
The world economy faces a new threat. Instead of a banking collapse or too much debt, fears are growing that countries are using their currencies as ...
Japan economy shrinks, fueling push for weak yen
Japan's economy shrank in the last three months of 2012, its third straight quarter of contraction, giving the government ammunition to defend its ...
China gives markets a lift at end of bruising week
Markets in Europe and Asia ended the week strongly after better-than-expected Chinese figures shored up hopes over the world's second-largest economy.
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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