Topic: Japan
Obama to meet Japan's prime minister at UN; meetings also set with Russia, China leadersPresident Barack Obama will meet Japan's new leader for the first time at the United Nations next week.U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice said that Obama will meet Prime Minister ...
Japan is a staple country on investor's radar, and the related ETF makes the access to Japan hard to ignore. Jeff Saut for Minyanville has a case that supports the argument that Japan's descent may be ending and an upward movement may ...
Despite his promises of change, 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 ...
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 and ethnic tension in Sri Lanka.Obama named longtime technology-focused lawyer John Roos as US ambassador to Japan, ...
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 World Bank will co-chair the meeting aimed at " helping ...
- U.S. lays out plan to buy up to $1 trln in toxic assets . - US stocks slide, Fed lending plan disappoints, . 'If the U.S. authorities actually succeed in buying up to $1 . 'The real challenge would be in ...
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 ...
Clinton kicks off Asia trip amid threating North Korean rhetoricSecretary 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 ...
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" ...
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 Washington, reported on its website that Obama wanted ...
