Japan Follow

Japan (??, Nihon or Nippon?, officially ??? About this sound Nippon-koku or Nihon-koku) is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and[...]

Toyota Motor Corp and its Lexus models racked up more complaints about sudden, unintended acceleration than other automakers among 2008 models in the United States, according to a recent analysis by the U.S. consumer group magazine Consumer Reports.

Shares across Europe and Asia rebounded today as fears that Dubai’s debt crisis would sweep across global markets began to abate. In London, the leading FTSE 100 index rose 16.16 points in early trading to 5,261.89 as this weekend’s intervention[...]

A U.S. Army member in Okinawa Prefecture alleged to have been involved in a suspected fatal hit-and-run accident has refused to submit to questioning by the Japanese police, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirofumi Hirano said Monday.

Tokyo has been real buzz, its a crazy city and a real contrast to our other Asian stops.

 In the 1990s, Japan experienced a financial crisis after the bursting of a bubble. Although outside the scope of this paper, the seeds of the crisis might have been sown during the financial deregulation in the 1980s before the formation of asset bubbles.[...]

THE latest figures on Japanese exports, released this week, make for grim reading. Exports, an important driver of the Japanese economy, were 7.7% lower in October than they were a year earlier. That drop, the biggest in nearly seven years, is just the[...]

Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda's surprise resignation announcement Monday, less than a year into office, is the latest problem to rock Japan as the world's second largest economy flirts with recession.