Japan's Education Ministry Aims High With Budget Request

2010-11-02T14:03:35Z

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Culture clash as US lawmakers grill Toyota

2010-06-26T00:51:40Z

The topic was the safety woes of Toyota, but the hearing at the US Congress could also have been a study in cross-cultural communication as Japanese formality met American bluntness.

Waving papers, pointing fingers and occasionally raising their voices, US House...

Toyota fixing 1.3 million vehicles over oil leak

2010-06-26T00:25:51Z

Embattled Toyota said Tuesday it is voluntarily fixing 1.3 million vehicles in North America for engine oil leaks but denied the campaign is a recall because it did not affect safety.

"It is what we call a service campaign," said Toyota spokeswoman Mieko Iwasaki in TOKYO (Reuters) - The top U.S. Marine in the Pacific said on Friday that his forces needed to be based on the southern island of Okinawa for strategic reasons, as Tokyo struggles to resolve a dispute with Japan may pledge "several hundred million dollars" for Afghan national reconciliation at a January 28 summit in London on promoting stability in the war-torn country, a US senator said Tuesday.

"There is a real hope that Japan has a particular interest in coming in with perhaps as much as, well, several hundred million d...

Bowing Too Deeply

2010-10-22T15:31:07Z

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Highlights of Obama's trip to Asia

2010-04-16T09:18:28Z

Here are some highlights of President Barack Obama's upcoming weeklong trip to Asia

A day-by-day look at President Barack Obama's weeklong trip to Asia:

Thursday, Nov. 12:

Departs for Japan, Singapore, China and

2010-09-10T11:19:45Z

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Favourites Chicago eliminated in first round of 2016 vote

2010-04-16T10:01:22Z

Odds-on favourites Chicago went out in the first round of voting on the hosts the 2016 Olympic Games here on Friday.

They received the least amount of votes despite President Barack Obama flying over to make a personal appeal earlier on Friday.

Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo and

Obama to meet Japan's new prime minister at UN

2010-04-16T10:15:03Z

Obama to meet Japan's prime minister at UN; meetings also set with Russia, China leaders

President Barack Obama will meet Japan's new leader for the first time at the United Nations next week.

U.S. President Barack Obama has kept tradition by naming top donors to plum ambassador posts, drawing fire from career US diplomats and causing dismay among some US allies.

Obama has been criticized for naming fund raisers with no diplomatic experience -- and who together drummed up well over a million dollars for his record-shattering campaign -- to be ambassadors to President Barack Obama named US ambassadors to Japan, India and Sri Lanka, amid heightened tension in Asia over North Korea's nuclear tests, unrest in Pakistan ...

Japan to host Pakistan donors meet next month

2010-04-16T16:19:00Z

Japan will host a donors meeting for Pakistan on April 17 that is set to be attended by the country's President Asif Ali Zardali and US envoy Richard Holbrooke, officials said Tuesday.

The Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso was set Tuesday to be President Barack Obama's first foreign guest as the leaders of the world's two largest economies plot action on the global financial crisis.

Aso is also expected to discuss plans for a major donors conference in Japan aimed at bringing political and economic stability to Clinton kicks off Asia trip amid threating North Korean rhetoric

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton kicked off the official program of her first overseas trip in Tokyo on Tuesday, visiting a Japanese cultural site and meeting U.S. Embassy staff under the shadow of threatening rhetoric from

Obama sees early meeting with Japanese PM Aso

2010-06-26T00:53:50Z

President Barack Obama is looking forward to an early meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso, his spokesman said Thursday after the two leaders spoke by telephone.

Obama, in his first conversation with Aso since his inauguration last week, vowed "deep commitment" to the Japan-US alliance and vowed to work with

Obama to name 'soft power' Nye for Japan role: report

2010-04-16T17:32:46Z

US president-elect Barack Obama plans to name influential academic Joseph Nye, best known for coining the phrase "soft power," as ambassador to Japan, a newspaper said Thursday.

The Asahi Shimbun, quoting unnamed sources in RNC TO CHALLENGE MCCAIN-FEINGOLD: Just over a week after John McCain was defeated, his party has launched a lawsuit to overturn much of the 2002 campaign finance law that bears his name. Republican National Chairman Mike Duncan announced last week that he will file suits to end restrictions ...

Greenwatch: UN climate chief seeks Barack Obama input in December talks

2010-04-16T14:30:05Z

UN climate chief seeks Barack Obama input in December talksSource: AFPThe UN climate chief has said he was "very encouraged" by Barack Obama's stance on global warming, and said he hoped the US president-elect would join in key talks in December before taking office. "It is impossible to advance on...

Global markets drop before crucial US rescue vote

2010-09-22T13:55:19Z

Stock markets fell Friday in Asia and Europe after heavy overnight Wall Street losses, ahead of another vital vote by US lawmakers on a multi-billion-dollar rescue for the financial sector.

The H...

Oil down for third day on financial turmoil

2010-10-21T09:41:59Z

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Lawmakers want apology for sex slaves

2010-09-09T05:26:34Z

Congressional Panel Endorses Resolution Seeking Japan's Apology for Wartime Sex Slavery

A congressional panel on Tuesday endorsed overwhelmingly a resolution urging Japan to apologize formally for coercing thousands of women to work as sex slaves for its World War II military.

The 39-2 approval by the Foreign Affairs Committee allows the measure to be considered by the full House. A large crowd of supporters applaude...

Japan New Year

2010-12-31T05:01:02Z

Women chat as they offer this year's last prayers at a temple in China town in Yokohama, near Tokyo, Japan, Friday, Dec. 31, 2010. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa)

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Japan World Markets

2010-12-30T01:01:25Z

Traders on the Tokyo Stock Exchange react during the afternoon trading in Tokyo at the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010. Most Asian stock markets traded in narrow ranges Thursday as fewer investors participated in the market ahead of the New Year holiday while Japan's Japan joining a United States-backed trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, free trade agreement in Yokohama near Tokyo as the Tokyo, Japan, Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010. Japan's Nikkei 225 stock average climbed 1.5 percent to 10,370.53 after the Bank of Japan kept monetary policy unchanged at the current super loose set...

Japan Stabbings

2010-12-17T03:01:23Z

A teacher of Edogawagakuen Toride High school, left, escort for their students to a station in Toride, Ibaraki prefecture, north of Tokyo, after their classes were canceled following a knife attack at the station Friday, Dec. 17, 2010. An unemployed Japanese man with a knife attacked students and other passengers waiting on two public buses outside the station Friday in a rampage that...

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