Japan will boost its aid to quake-hit Haiti to 100 million dollars, a report said Friday as the country's foreign minister prepared to visit the impoverished Caribbean nation this weekend. Japan, which has already pledged 70 million dollars in emergency aid and ...
<div><p>NHK World TV went on air Monday as the latest English-language international news network as Japan joined the race to boost clout overseas by reaching out to viewers.</p><p>Broadcast 24 hours a day, NHK World TV is accessible on five continents via satellite, ...
<div><p>Japanese scientists said Tuesday they had created a mouse from a dead cell frozen for 16 years, taking a step in the long impossible dream of bringing back extinct animals such as mammoths.</p><p>Scientists at the government-backed research institute Riken used the dead ...
<div><p>Japan's public broadcaster NHK faced a terror scare for the second straight day on Monday when it received an envelope containing what resembled a rifle bullet, the network said.</p><p>The package reached the station's headquarters in Tokyo by mail in the evening with ...
<div><p>Japan's Nobunari Oda managed to clinch the NHK Trophy Sunday by showing off combination leaps and nearly nailing a quadruple jump in his free programme, despite several wobbles.</p><p>Among the women, reigning world queen Mao Asada led the Japanese trio sweep of the ...
<div><p>Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Group Holdings and its two rivals are considering an integration of their operation to become Japan's biggest non-life insurer, a news report said Sunday.</p><p>Mitsui Sumitomo, the nation's second largest non-life insurer, is negotiating with Aioi Insurance and Nissay Dowa ...
<div><p>US giant Ford Motor Co. plans to sell most of its shares in Japan's Mazda to raise cash to it tide over a business slump amid the current global financial crisis, a press report said Saturday.</p><p>Ford has begun to sound out a ...
<div><p>US giant Ford Motor Co. plans to sell most of its shares in Japan's Mazda to raise badly needed cash amid the current global financial crisis, press reports said on Saturday.</p><p>Ford, Mazda's biggest shareholder with a 33.4-percent equity, has begun to sound ...
<div><p>Japan's opposition leader Ichiro Ozawa, under fire over a political donations scandal, has told officials of his Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) that he plans to resign, broadcaster NHK reported Monday.</p><p>"DPJ representative Ozawa told several senior members of his party of his ...
<div><p>Japan said Sunday that 32 more people had tested positive for swine flu, bringing the total number of cases to 44 amid fears the virus has a foothold in the west of the country.</p><p>The latest group of flu sufferers included 29 high ...
