Japan News

Asia Pacific News.Net Thursday 4th September, 2008 Gregory Clark - The Japan Times) Japan's PR-vulnerable public and lightheaded media have done it again.

Japan's brash, right-leaning former foreign minister announced Friday that he would run for ruling party president in a move that would put him on track to take over as Japan's next prime minister.

Four former public education officials charged in a bribery scandal over teachers employment tests in Oita Prefecture admitted all the facts presented in indictments during the first hearing at the Oita ...

Aiming to boost its product offerings and increase its sales outside its home country, Japanese pharmaceutical firm Shionogi will pay $1.1 billion to acquire Sciele , a drug company based in Atlanta.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, famous for its manned missions to the moon, announced the creation of the Carl Sagan Postdoctoral Fellowships in Exoplanet Exploration on Wednesday.

The 12th annual Japanese Fall Festival, hosted by the Springfield Sister Cities Association, will be held Friday through Sunday at the Mizumoto Japanese Stroll Garden at Nathanael Greene Memorial Park located ...

YOUNG conservative Nobuteru Ishihara, a son of Tokyo's outspoken governor, said on Thursday he was ready to run for prime minister, calling for his party to challenge front runner Taro Aso.

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN -- The bullet-riddled body of an abducted Japanese aid worker was recovered Wednesday, the latest grim symbol of insurgents' apparent determination to drive foreign humanitarian groups from ...

YURIKO Koike emerged on Wednesday as a possible contender to be Japan's first female prime minister, with heavyweights in the ailing ruling party urging her to challenge conservative favourite Taro Aso.

TOKYO : Japan is set to unveil a 1.8 trillion stimulus package Friday to shore up its flagging economy, which has been hit by soaring energy and material prices, Kyodo News reported.

The elephant's memory is legendary, but in a large, grey surprise to science the mighty Asian elephant turns out to have a distinct flair for maths as well Under carefully controlled experimental conditions - ...

Asia's largest economy was left rudderless again yesterday after Japan's prime minister quit suddenly, sparking concerns that free-market reforms will be put on the backburner as a recession looms.

Likely Japanese prime ministerial contender Taro Aso arrives for a press conference in Tokyo on Tuesday, Sept.

A merica's economic crisis today is not like Japan's in the 1990s. It is far worse.

People who don't think life is worth living are more likely to die within the next few years, research from Japan shows.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will become the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit ground zero of the world's first atomic bombing in Hiroshima, Japan.

Tokyo - Asian elephants can do mathematics, proving their skill at addition in an experiment with their favourite food, a Japanese researcher said on Monday.

Sixty thousand years ago, a small group of African men and women took to the Red Sea in tiny boats and crossed the Mandab Strait to Asia.

Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda held an emergency Cabinet meeting in response to a mock quake measuring magnitude 8.6 off the coast of Wakayama in western Japan, the official from the Cabinet Office said on ...

A special exhibition featuring 17th century paintings from the Louvre is to be held at the National Museum of Western Art in Ueno, Tokyo, and the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art in Sakyo Ward, Kyoto, from ...