s economy and US Federal Reserve bond plans European stock markets posted fresh losses on Monday, with London leading the way, as fears of an emerging markets crisis continued to alarm investors and sent shares sliding in Asia overnight. Shares were also hit by predictions that the US Federal Reserve would trim its bond-buying stimulus programme on Wednesday, despite recent market volatility, and concerns...
Data link still flawed after International Space Station astronauts repeat operation to fix faulty equipment ...
Calls for NHK's Katsuto Momii to resign after remarks that risk fuelling tension with South Korea and China Justin McCurry ...
s, growth would be impossible. They said that our public debt was unsustainable. They pointed to our supposed psyche of resignation as a symptom of relative decline. But now such voices are rarely heard. Japan's economy has swung from negative to positive growth and is on the verge of breaking free from chronic deflation. This spring, wages will increase – a long overdue development that will lead...
47 Ronin expected to be one of 2013's biggest box-office bombs • Keanu Reeves: 'I would've broken Kubrick' In 2010, an internet meme of Hollywood tristesse first caused global concern for the well-being of actor Keanu Reeves. Now a New-York based designer has immortalised the "sad Keanu" Photoshop meme as an action figure for fans to enjoy in the comfort of their own homes. Idk's Keanu figure, designed...
s prime minister has called on China to scale back its military spending on a day when he compared the mounting tension between Asia's two biggest economies with the rivalry between Britain and Germany before the first world war. Shinzo Abe used a keynote address to the World Economic Forum in Davos to hail a new dawn for his country and said the fruits of growth in Asia should be used for innovation...
Ad to promote overseas flights showed man in false nose and blonde wig to look western ...
Annual cull goes ahead in defiance of worldwide outrage, US ambassador and Yoko Ono Justin McCurry ...
Fishermen on Japan's Pacific coast kill more than 200 dolphins as their annual hunt begins ...
Activists on Sea Shepherd claim biggest hunt for years killed around 40 of the 250 trapped dolphins with another 50 sold on to aquariums Japanese fishermen have finished killing some of the 250 dolphins trapped recently in what environmental activists claim was the biggest roundup they have witnessed in the last four years. Sea Shepherd, best known for its anti-whaling activities, said the fishermen...
Country responds to criticism from US ambassador as Yoko Ono calls for an end to the practice Stung by rare criticism from the US ambassador, the Japanese government has defended a controversial annual dolphin hunt as international criticism of the practice gathered pace. A government spokesman said on Monday that dolphin fishing in western Japan, which has come under the spotlight in the wake of...
Caroline Kennedy tweets concern about Japanese practice just days after more than 250 dolphins were driven into a cove in Taiji The US ambassador to Japan, Caroline Kennedy, has expressed deep concern about the Japanese tradition of "drive-hunting" dolphins just days after scores of creatures were rounded up for slaughter in a town infamous for culling the mammals. "Deeply concerned by inhumaneness...
s defenders say his policies must be taken in the context of the security threat facing Japan Japanese premier Shinzo Abe called today for "frank talks" with neighbouring powers China and South Korea to defuse regional tensions. But the governments of Xi Jinping and Park Geun-hye have as yet refused to meet him, not least because of his Boxing Day visit to the Yasukuni shrine , which commemorates the...
s proposed new location re-elected a mayor who has vowed to block the move. The victory by Susumu Inamine, who stood on an anti-base platform in the city of Nago, is a serious setback to efforts by the prime minister, Shinzo Abe, to move the Futenma marine corps base from a heavily populated part of the island to a more remote site. The base's uncertain future has been a thorn in the side of relations...
At least 10 people fell ill in Japan after food plant worker Lu Yueting contaminated frozen product with pesticide A Chinese court has sentenced a former food plant worker to life in prison for poisoning frozen dumplings that made 10 people ill in Japan in 2008 and strained relations with Tokyo just months before the Beijing Olympics. The incident prompted a recall of millions of bags of dumplings,...
Japanese fishermen round up hundreds of dolphins in a secluded bay in an annual hunt in western Japan ...
A factory worker in China who injected poison into frozen dumplings is jailed for life ...
The former imperial army intelligence officer remained on the Philippine island of Lubang for nearly 29 years without knowledge of Japan's surrender in the second world war. He has died at a Tokyo hospital aged 91 ...
Second world war intelligence officer stayed stubbornly holed up in Philippine jungle until he was coaxed out in 1974 Justin McCurry ...
US conservationists says some of the mammals will be sent to captivity and most will be killed for meat Hundreds of bottlenose dolphins have been rounded up by Japanese fishermen and taken into captivity for slaughter in a town infamous for culling and killing the mammals, according to US conservationists. The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society said a pod of more than 250 dolphins including babies,...