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Japanese police said Thursday that an American soldier is the prime suspect in a fatal-hit-and-run accident on the southern island of Okinawa and asked the U.S. Army to bring him in for further questioning.
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Wednesday he's encouraged by efforts in Japan and China to spur domestic demand instead of relying so heavily on American consumers — a shift that will contribute to more stable global growth.
Exactly a year after Barack Obama was voted to replace him as president, George W. Bush was in Japan on Wednesday talking about his former life — in sports.
Mazda and Mitsubishi Motors — Japan's No. 4 and No. 5 automakers — reported half-year net losses Thursday, battered by plunging sales and the strong yen.
A speech and a Nobel prize have raised hopes in Japan that Barack Obama will become the first sitting American president to visit Hiroshima or Nagasaki, the two cities devastated by U.S. atomic bombs in World War II.
Viewers expressed mixed reactions Wednesday to "The Cove," a covertly filmed movie about a Japanese dolphin-hunting village that was shown to the Japanese public for the first time at the Tokyo International Film Festival.
Its bid tainted by the perceived tepid support of its citizens, Tokyo failed to bring the Olympics back to Japan's capital when the International Olympic Committee rejected it in the second round of voting to choose the 2016 Games.
Japan's new foreign minister said Wednesday that he wants to review the deployment of U.S. troops in his country to ease the burden on the people of Okinawa and ensure that the American military presence in Japan endures.
Major Asian stock markets advanced Friday as improving economic data from the China and U.S. supported views that the worst of the global recession is passing. European markets opened narrowly mixed.
Thailand's humiliated government Sunday arrested the leader of demonstrators who shut down a 16-nation Asian summit. The prime minister vowed further crackdowns as the protesters regrouped in the capital for renewed rallies.
For someone who grew up ashamed of her ethnic identity, they are powerful words.
Between surging oil prices, food inflation and a credit crunch that's depressed global growth, leaders from the Group of Eight economic powers face the gravest combination of economic woes in at least a decade when they gather next week.
Asian and European stocks rose Wednesday as central banks from the United States to Britain and Europe moved in concert to ease pressure on the world's credit markets.
Pacific Rim business leaders say governments must make polluting more costly to businesses and make investing in expensive energy-efficient technologies more attractive if they want to reduce global warming.
Every 60 seconds, a shiny new pickup truck rolls off the assembly line at Toyota's factory outside of Bangkok, a third of them bound overseas for places like Australia, Europe and the Mideast.
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