Tag: Japan
Japan PM on way out, leadership race wide open
Unpopular Prime Minister Naoto Kan will likely resign on Aug. 30, his economics minister said on Tuesday, but who will succeed him as Japan...
Japan ready to act over yen’s historic rise
Japan is ready to take action against a further surge in the yen, including market intervention, after the safe-haven Japanese currency hit a post-war...
Japan plans new fuel economy norms for automakers
Japanese automakers would need to boost their fuel economy by 24.1 per cent by fiscal 2020 to meet the new standards being drawn up...
Japan jolted by strong 6.3 quake
Disaster-weary Japan was rattled on Friday by another strong seabed quake with a magnitude of 6.3, which triggered a temporary tsunami warning and sent...
Japan jolted by 6.8 earthquake
Disaster-weary Japan was rattled by another strong quake Friday, which measured at a preliminary magnitude of 6.8, triggered a tsunami warning and sent people...
First full post-disaster reactor restarts in Japan
Japan on Wednesday approved the full resumption of commercial operations of an atomic reactor for the first time since the March 11 quake and...
Japan to provide $65m for polio eradication
Japan on Monday decided to extend a soft loan of 4.993 billion yens (approximately $65 million) to Pakistan for polio eradication. An accord in...
Endgame nearing for unpopular Japan PM
Unpopular Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan looked likely to finally step down this month after parliament made headway on key legislation on Wednesday, setting...
Japan may get new PM this month: media
Japan may have a new leader by the end of the month, its sixth in five years, newspapers said Wednesday, as embattled Prime Minister...
Japan in ratings cross-hairs as debt in focus
In the guessing game of which Asian sovereign credit will be downgraded next, after the United States this weekend, Japan is almost everyone's top...
Japan shows interest in investment
Japan has shown keen interest for investment in the recently launched textile city, near Karachi. Japanese Ambassador Hiroshi OE called on Minister for Textile...
UN chief heads to Japan as nuclear crisis simmers
UN chief Ban Ki-moon arrives in Japan on Sunday, where he plans to visit the Fukushima nuclear disaster zone, as the crippled atomic power...
Japanese PM in Hiroshima vows nuclear-free future
A ceremony to mark the anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing was dominated by national soul-searching on atomic power as Japan's prime minister pledged a...
Japan shows interest for investment in Textile City
Japan has shown keen interest for investment in the recently launched textile city, near Karachi. Japanese Ambassador Hiroshi OE called on Minister for Textile...
Japan to sack top officials over nuclear disaster
Japan may replace three senior bureaucrats in charge of nuclear power policy, the minister overseeing energy policy said on Thursday, five months after the...
Strong quake shakes Japan’s Fukushima
A strong 6.4-magnitude earthquake shook northeast Japan’s Fukushima prefecture, home to a crippled July uclear power plant, early Sunday, but there was no risk...
Japan demands FIFA explain bin Hammam ban
Japan's football chief has demanded a detailed explanation from football's world governing body FIFA on its decision to ban Asian Football Confederation (AFC) president...
