Japan

Despite their improvement and reaching a fourth finals, Japan could still find themselves over-powered at World Cup 2010 in South Africa. Published: 1:04PM GMT 20 Nov 2009 Get in: Japan's team, including Shinji Okazaki (left), Yuki Abe...

In this article: World Cup 2010, World Cup, Takeshi Okada, 2002 World Cup, J League, Stroke, Shinji Okazaki, and Shunsuke Nakamura

...of a crime outside the base unless they are charged, though they have sometimes done so in serious criminal cases. The case comes as Japan and the United States are locked in a feud over the relocation of a U.S. Marine air base on Okinawa,...

In this article: United States, Okinawa, Yukio Hatoyama, Okinawa, U.S. Marine, Tokyo, and Reuters

He is also under pressure to resolve a feud with the country's top security ally, the United States, over a military base in Japan and to clear the air over a funding scandal ahead of an election for parliament's upper house in...

In this article: Yukio Hatoyama, Deflation, Recession, Bank of Japan, United States, and Okinawa

...deflation may reflect the worry that falling prices mean lower tax revenues - already a problem with Japan's rapidly aging population. The Bank of Japan seemed to be less concerned about deflation and economy in general. It said the...

In this article: Deflation, Credit Suisse, Tokyo, and U.S.

...concern about deflation. "The government position ... does not differ from the views the Bank of Japan has shown before," he said. Japan was stuck in a deflationary spiral for years after its asset price bubble burst in the early 1990s,...

In this article: Bank of Japan, Deflation, Masaaki Shirakawa, Asia, Recession, and Deflationary spiral

...jump in the first quarter of 2007. In the April-June quarter, GDP rose at a revised annual pace of 2.7 percent. The Bank of Japan projected the pace of Japan's recovery is likely to remain moderate until around the middle of the fiscal 2010.

In this article: Deflation, Goods and services, Bank of Japan, and Tokyo

...2010 and to expand to 705 billion yen in three years, according to Sawai Pharmaceutical <4555. T>, Japan's No.1 generic drug maker. Japan is promoting generics as part of its efforts to reduce healthcare costs but a plan by its new...

In this article: Pfizer, Europe, Business operations, Wyeth, North America, and Asia

For more stories on the Japanese economy click [ID:nECONJP]) There is no end in sight to Japan's ballooning public debt with the country having put off targets for reforming its fiscal conditions, the head of the OECD said on Wednesday

In this article: Deflation, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, and Tokyo

...need to set up the working group," Hatoyama told reporters. Hatoyama, whose Democratic Party of Japan was elected in August with a promise that Japan would be more less passive in its relationship with the United States, has said that the...

In this article: Yukio Hatoyama, Barack Obama, U.S. Marine, United States, Okinawa, Okinawa, Tokyo, Democratic Party of Japan, and Guam