At 27, Kazuo Tachikawa has started a career handling energy affairs for a major Japanese trading firm--a yuppie in every respect, except that he lives in a dorm.
Governor Will fly to Japan on Friday for a weeklong visit to promote increased trade and open a new California trade office in Tokyo.
Bob Horner hit three home runs Wednesday night to power the Yakult Swallows of the Central League to a 6-3 victory over the Hanshin Tigers.
Four Japanese arrested on charges of selling Moscow secrets about the U.S.
Police in western Japan searched Monday for an assailant who burst into a regional office of a
There is a Japanese supercomputer performing more than 1 billion mathematical calculations per second in Houston these days, and it represents a significant challenge to U.S. dominance of one of the highest peaks in high technology.
In this time of a weakened U.S. dollar and a more expensive Japanese yen, many visitors to Japan are missing a chance to eat cheaply.
The U.S. dollar strengthened against the major currencies in quiet European trading today.
The Supreme Court today killed a lawsuit by American businesses that charges Japanese electronics manufacturers with illegally "dumping" television sets and other products in the United States at artificially low prices.
island near this industrial city in western Japan, represents the air terminal of the future, aviation experts say.
against Japan for violating an agreement not to dump computer chips at below-market prices.
The British prime minister issued a thinly veiled threat of trade sanctions against Japan unless Tokyo opened its domestic market to foreigners.
Japan logged another record trade surplus with the United States last month, ensuring that friction with its biggest trading partner will continue.
California cherry producers could boost their exports to Japan by more than $3 million a year, now
The government has decided to reduce Japanese coal production by nearly 40% over the next five years, to 10 million tons a year, a step that will eliminate the jobs of more than 10,000 of the country's 24,000 miners and result in increased coal imports.
A settlement in the semiconductor talks is in jeopardy, U.S. industry officials said, amid accusations that Japanese chip makers stepped up predatory pricing and dumping activity this month.
The $8.22-billion surplus for July came despite the steep appreciation in the value of the yen that makes Japanese products more expensive abroad, the Finance Ministry said.
The Japanese government is about to plug a tiny leak that has let California rice into one of the world's most protected agricultural markets at the rate of about 20 tons a year.
restrictions on U.S. computers, and officials in Tokyo said his charge of unfair trade practices by Japan on leather and tobacco was groundless.
Japan will cut its tariff on imported wine next April, one year earlier than planned, to help ease