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Mazda Motor aims to lift its use of parts from overseas to as much as 30% of total domestic components, as the yen maintains its strength.
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For corporate governance in Japan, it's one step forward, two steps back.
A group of 16 lawmakers within the ruling Democratic Party of Japan launched a revolt that could increase doubt about the stability of Naoto Kan's government.
Toyota Motor opened its first group assembly plant in Japan in 18 years, highlighting the commitment Toyota has to manufacturing in Japan despite macroeconomic pressures that would seem to make the strategy impractical.
Japan's government signed a free-trade agreement with India, bolstering ties with the fast-growing South Asian economy with which it shares a mutual concern about larger economic rival China.
Sixty-six years after the bloody battle of Iwo Jima, the Japanese government is accelerating an unusual project to search for the large number of undiscovered remains left on the Pacific island.
India has proposed to set up a revolving fund of $9 billion jointly with Japan to help finance the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor project.
The leadership of Japan's ruling party decided to propose suspending former leader Ichiro Ozawa over an alleged funds violation, just days after Ozawa refused to voluntarily leave as suggested by the prime minister.
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The Bank of Japan's policy board kept its easy monetary policy unchanged but raised its assessment of the broader economy for the first time in nine months.
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Representatives of British Airways and the British government called for greater access to Haneda Airport on Sunday as they celebrated the launch of the airline's new service between Haneda and Heathrow Airport in London....
Jamie Cassidy, British Airways' general manager for the Asia Pacific region, expressed confidence Sunday that his airline would soon have access to a wider range of arrival and departure times at Tokyo's Haneda Airport. ...
Ski resort operators around the country are seeking to attract skiers from neighboring countries and territories to make up for the rapid decline in skiers at home. The move follows a gradual increase in the number of visitors to domestic ski resorts from China, ...
Embattled Prime Minister Naoto Kan has hinted he may dissolve the House of Representatives for a snap election, in a bid to counter intraparty moves calling for his resignation as well as to seek a people's mandate on a consumption tax hike....
Residents in some areas of the nation have filed lawsuits against their local governments, arguing it is illegal for them to be barred from demanding city, town and village mayors pay compensation after the local governments' unsuccessful litigation over the disimbursement of public money....
Staffing agency Pasona Group Inc. has recruited two new “employees” this week -- two female goats.
Radiohead, was nowhere to be seen in Tokyo's famous Shibuya intersection in person, via satellite, a beamed in hologram or otherwise on Friday night as per a cryptic Tweet. But the indie band has released its new album a day early.
Midlife Japanese men are drinking more black tea, earning themselves a new monicker in some quarters -- "kocha danshi," or “tea men” -- and driving up sales of the brew.
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