Commissioner Tatsuo Saito of Japan abruptly quit the International Whaling Commission today to
issued by the Japan Ministry of Post and Telecommunications.
This port city, one of the first to welcome foreigners to Japan, will opens its doors to the world
More than 24,000 people killed themselves in Japan last year, slightly fewer than the record set in 1983.
Japan rang up a $3.41-billion trade surplus with the United States in May, second only to the
Japan posted a record monthly trade surplus of $8.22 billion in July, shattering any prospect of a
An excursion bus carrying 21 people smashed into a trailer near Kobe in western Japan on Wednesday, injuring 16 people, one seriously, police said.
Friday on a hilly road in eastern Japan, killing five and seriously injuring four others, police said.
over the Seibu Lions Sunday in the Japan World Series.
. postmaster general, are gaining popularity in Japan, where they are known as 2-by-4s because of the size of lumber used in building them.
Toyota Motor Corp. of Japan said it expects to report a sharp drop in its fiscal 1986 profit, due
Two weeks in Japan for $1,141, including air fare.
Japan's powerful government bureaucrats, angry at a constant barrage of overseas criticism of their country's economic policies, are pushing Tokyo toward a more aggressive stance in negotiations with its trading partners.
New Soviet Ambassador to Japan Nikolai N.
The first joint appearance of two locally based folk ensembles--Karpatok and Avaz--promised to be a stimulating juxtaposition of divergent approaches to ethnic performance.
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.