The last time Mieko Akiyama saw her brother Yosuke was on Aug. 13, 1945, when they were among the Japanese settlers fleeing in horse-drawn carts from Soviet troops in northern China.
country health-care products and medical equipment, an area in which U.S. companies clearly have world leadership and Japan lags.
The Japanese Finance Ministry liberalized interest rates and other restrictions as part of the government's continuing effort to deregulate the country's financial system and make the yen a more widely used currency in the world.
As a performer, Heinz Holliger is wondrously persuasive and communicative.
unless Japan gives U.S. products greater access to its markets.
Members of the Senate Appropriations Committee urged Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige to stop relying on the free market to restore American trade balance and instead take retaliatory action against Japanese imports.
The United States and Japan have signed an agreement calling for cooperation in the preliminary
Tom Doi of Granada Hills says his non-Japanese friends are often surprised when he tells them about the Japanese American Community Center in Pacoima.
Japanese alpinist Yoshimasa Wada Friday descended the Matterhorn on skis, and local residents said he was the first to achieve the exploit from the summit of the 14,688-foot peak.
A total of 24,596 people, about two-fifths of them in their 40s and 50s, committed suicide in Japan last year, the National Police Agency said Saturday.
often travel to Japan and somehow end up deified there.
I totally disagree with Sam Jameson's opinions about U.S. business and our country in his Viewpoint, "U.S.
Japan, the largest single donor nation to the Philippines, has postponed making $183.3 million
Friday at the age of 120, the Japan Broadcasting Corp. reported.
I applaud former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger's attempt (Opinion, Oct. 6) to recast the U.S.
As a Japanese national who was educated at both Japanese and American public schools, I can personally attest to the quality of the Japanese educational system described by Denis P.
Japan and the United States--seeking to resolve unfair trade practice charges against Japanese
The president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan predicted Friday that a "persistent rise
205 to take a three-stroke lead in the $203,330 '85 ABC Cup Japan-U.S. golf matches at Kawanishi, Japan.
Japan's economic challenge to the United States has sparked a flurry of American charges that Japan seeks to "dominate" the world.