TOKYO (AP) - Visits by Cabinet ministers and lawmakers to a shrine honoring Japan's war dead, including 14 World War II leaders convicted of atrocities, signal Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's determination to pursue a more nationalist agenda af... [Full Article]
By Kaori Kaneko TOKYO (Reuters) - Tensions flared between Japan and China and South Korea after a group of Japanese lawmakers visited a shrine seen by Asian neighbors as a symbol of Japan's past militarism and Chinese patrol vessels played cat-a... [Full Article]
TOKYO (Reuters) - Rating agency Standard & Poor's said on Tuesday it saw more than a one-third chance that it would downgrade Japan's sovereign ratings because of uncertainty about whether the government's push to revive growth and... [Full Article]
By Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's foreign minister canceled a trip to Japan on Monday after Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made an offering to a shrine seen as a symbol of Japan's former militarism, a South Korean governmen... [Full Article]
BEIJING (AP) - China accused Japan of raising regional tensions with its increased use of fighter jets to monitor Chinese aircraft that approach a cluster of islands claimed by both countries. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - Toshiba Corp and SunEdison, a unit of U.S.-based MEMC Electronic Materials Inc, have agreed to build solar power plants in Japan, the Nikkei said. SunEdison will sell the power generated at these plants, the paper said. Toshiba expects 27... [Full Article]
By Tetsushi Kajimoto and Kaori Kaneko TOKYO (Reuters) - A small rise in Japanese exports, improving business confidence and surging investment flows demonstrated early successes for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's radical pro-growth strategy, but fi... [Full Article]
By Reiji Murai and Mari Saito TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan Display Inc, one of two Japanese producers of Apple Inc iPhone screens, wants to boost sales by up to 60 percent by winning more business from smaller makers of phones and tablets to offset lacklu... [Full Article]
TOKYO (AP) - The United States and Japan on Sunday offered new talks with North Korea to resolve the increasingly dangerous standoff over its nuclear and missile programs, but said the reclusive communist government first must lower tensions and hono... [Full Article]
TOKYO (AP) - U.S. and Japanese officials say their countries are committed to new talks with North Korea if the reclusive communist government begins abiding by previous agreements on its nuclear program. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
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