Airbus appears to have been pushed back once again in landmark efforts to break Boeing Co’s grip on Japan’s two largest airlines, which need to buy billions of dollars worth of planes in the next decade. …

On Saturday August 31, 2013 a sold-out field of 1600 triathletes took part in the newest edition of the Ironman WTC family of triathlon races at Lake Toya in Hokkaido, Japan.Although the pro field was not as large…

Japan’s government won backing for a controversial decision to raise the national sales tax in 2014 after influential members of a special advisory panel said the step would not threaten economic recovery …

Japan’s Finance Ministry will request a record 25.3 trillion yen in debt-servicing costs under its fiscal 2014/15 budget, up 13.7 percent from the amount set aside for this year, a document obtained by …

Head of online public diplomacy disparaged commemorations for victims of atomic bombs in Facebook posting.

Having arrived in Rome, I had to hunt down my hostel. Though I had instructions, there was no soon to indicate where it was. After walking past it a few times, I popped into an internet cafe to use street view pinpoint it. Hard to …

The crisis at the Fukushima plant will be upgraded from a level 1 ‘anomaly’ to a level three ‘serious incident’ on an international scale for radiological releases.

Japan may have emerged late last year from its shortest economic contraction in roughly 60 years, findings of a government panel showed, as optimism generated by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s reflationary …

Foto: EPA. Japan hat Israel einen Protest erklärt. Grund dafür sind die Internet-Aussagen des früheren israelischen Vizeinformationsministers Daniel Seaman. Seaman, der für die öffentliche Diplomatie der Premieramts zuständig ist, schrieb auf Facebook …

In official statements made by Japan in May, government leaders insist that their prime minister's home isn't haunted. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe thinks otherwise and still refuses to move his family into their official residence because…