AFP - More than six in ten Japanese want Prime Minister Naoto Kan to win his party leadership battle with powerbroker Ichiro Ozawa, polls showed Monday.
AFP - More than six in ten Japanese want Prime Minister Naoto Kan to win his party leadership battle with powerbroker Ichiro Ozawa, polls showed Monday.
AP - When Mio Honzawa starts fifth grade next April, her textbooks will be thicker.
AFP - Japan on Monday said it has detected its first case of an antibiotic-resistant "superbug" that surfaced in South Asia and has triggered a global health alert.
AFP - Greenpeace urged Japan on Tuesday to probe graft claims in its state-funded whaling programme, a day after two of its activists received suspended jail terms for committing theft during an investigation.
AP - A Japanese journalist held hostage in Afghanistan for five months managed to send out a message via Twitter that he was alive when his captors asked him how to use a cell phone.
AFP - Ruling party kingpin Ichiro Ozawa, seeking to become Japan's new prime minister, said Tuesday he would not step down even if a judicial review panel orders his indictment in a political funds scandal.
AP - Japan opened up the secretive world of its capital punishment system to the public Friday, offering journalists a rare tour of Tokyo's main gallows in an effort to stoke debate about a practice widely supported here.
AFP - A majority of Japanese want Prime Minister Naoto Kan to stay on despite a challenge posed by powerbroker Ichiro Ozawa ahead of a party presidential race next month, Kyodo News reported Saturday.
AFP - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan's right-hand man is suspected of misappropriation of political funds, a news report said Sunday, in a possible blow to Kan ahead of a party leadership race next month.
Reuters - The Bank of Japan buckled under government pressure and eased monetary policy at an emergency meeting on Monday in an effort to curb a rise in the yen that is threatening a fragile economic recovery.
AFP - The Bank of Japan decided at an emergency policy meeting Monday to expand its funding programme introduced in December in an effort to safeguard a fragile recovery threatened by a strong yen.
AFP - Japan on Monday announced plans for a "swift" stimulus package worth around 920 billion yen (11 billion dollars) as it looks to safeguard a fragile recovery and curb the impact of a strong yen.
AFP - Japan on Monday unveiled an 11 billion dollar stimulus and announced monetary steps to safeguard a fragile economy and curb the impact of a strong yen, but markets were left unimpressed.