Tense relations between Japan and China risk being further inflamed by their competing claims to undersea natural gas and oil deposits. But Japanese energy executives say the two sides should try what companies battling for ownership of natural resources often do: share. “Standard oil-and-gas ...

First it was Mazda, then Nissan and Mitsubishi Motors. Now it’s Sony. Some of the biggest names in once notoriously insular corporate Japan have tapped foreigners as leaders, underlining a new flexibility shaped by globalization and years of economic malaise. Japanese companies have increasingly ...

Dotted with energy-efficient factories and fuel-saving cars, Japan has been less affected by surging oil prices than most wealthy countries. Stung by the “oil shocks” of 1973 and 1979, the government has spent the past few decades urging businesses and consumers to save energy ...

Yoshiaki Saito points to a row of live crabs at the front of his shop in Tokyo’s largest seafood market. “Those are from Russia, those from Japan,” he says. “And these are from North Korea.” Most Japanese would be surprised. Japan and North Korea ...