MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was down about 0.3 percent in late afternoon trade. Japan’s Nikkei stock average (.N225) tumbled 2.2 percent and touched a 4-1/2-month low, though it, too, pulled away from session lows as the dollar retook some ground lost to the yen.

HYDERABAD, India (AP) — Rescue workers and soldiers cleared uprooted trees and electrical poles blocking roads in eastern India after a tropical cyclone killed at least 24 people and demolished tens of thousands of mud huts. In Japan, a tropical storm killed at least one person and injured 75 before heading out to sea Tuesday […]

Residents were forced to flee their homes on the island of Okinawa, some 1,000 miles south of Tokyo, before it was hit by the typhoon. It also whipped up waves in eastern China, pictured.

The latest innovation to come out of Japan is deep-fried maple leaves and some Canadians are furious that they did not think of it first.

Could a financial collapse in either of those nations be the catalyst that sets off financial dominoes all over the planet? This week, the worst German industrial production figure since 2009 rattled global financial markets.

Japan’s largest recruitment company Recruit Holdings Co Ltd priced its $2 billion initial public offering at 3,100 yen, the top of its bookbuilding range, raising expectations of strong demand that could break a run of flops among big Tokyo listings. The range of 2,800 to 3,100 yen, set last week, had already suggested a more […]

TOKYO (AP) — A powerful typhoon that washed three American airmen in Okinawa out to sea, killing at least one, slammed central Japan on Monday, stalling trains and flights and triggering mudslides, before swerving to the Pacific Ocean.

US Airman Dead, Two Missing In Japan Typhoon – 10/5/2014 FOX News

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe remains “completely neutral” on whether to raise the national sales tax, Economy Minister Akira Amari said on Sunday even as he expressed concern about the strength of the country’s economic recovery. Abe faces a tough decision by year’s end on whether to raise the tax for a second time – […]

OTAKI, Japan (AP) — One body recovered near the volcano's summit was in a squatting position and had to be dug out of a thick layer of ash. Another was caught between huge boulders bigger than large refrigerators. Police who recovered a dozen bodies on Wednesday portrayed a painful scene of death around the summit […]