AP A car bomb exploded outside a mosque Sunday, killing at least 37 people and wounding another 141 in a mostly Shiite Muslim neighborhood in the southern Pakistan city of Karachi — the third mass-casualty attack on the minority sect in the country this ...
It's a dangerous, unpredictable world. Twice in January Chinese warships in the East China Sea challenged Japan's Maritime Self Defense Forces patrols in a manner deemed threatening. And on Feb. 12 came North Korea's nuclear test.
Here's an open secret: Japanese men have a bad international reputation on the romance front.
SELLING WOMEN: Prostitution, Markets and the Household in Early Modern Japan, by Amy Stanley. University of California Press, 2012, 282 pp., $49.95 (hardcover) In the vast cultural landscape, Japan fascinates the mainstream with manga and anime, the martial arts, Zen and kimono. Of course, ...
Kenta Maeda shook off worries about his form with five shutout innings as Japan beat China 5-2 in first-round Pool A of the World Baseball Classic on Sunday at Fukuoka Dome. Japan improved to 2-0 following a tough win over Brazil in Saturday evening’s ...
Buying foreign bonds will be unnecessary under the next Bank of Japan governor, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Wednesday, backing away from a proposal that other nations alleged was an attempt to weaken the yen. “We decided to consider this (last) November,” Abe told ...
Europe’s main stock markets mostly fell on Monday after a weekend meeting of the Group of 20 leading economies ended with Japan being spared an accusation of unfairly devaluing its currency. London’s FTSE 100 index of leading companies slid 0.16 percent to 6,318.19 points, ...
Stocks rebounded sharply Monday as the yen fell after the Group of 20 economies failed to single out Japan for criticism over its economic policies, which have led to the yen’s recent weakness. The Nikkei 225 average closed up 234.04 points, or 2.09 percent, ...
Global finance chiefs signaled Japan has scope to keep stimulating its stagnant economy as long as policymakers cease publicly advocating a sliding yen. The message was delivered during weekend talks involving finance ministers and central bankers from the Group of 20 in Moscow. While ...
Despite skepticism from G-20 countries, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe may continue his extreme monetary easing until the Upper House election to maintain his approval rating.
On the sidelines of the Group of 20 financial leaders’ meeting, Finance Minister Taro Aso found himself sought out by many of his counterparts, who expressed a keen interest in Japan’s economic and monetary policies, a government source said. Attending his first G-20 gathering ...
The Group of 20 finance chiefs seek to avoid "competitive currency devaluation" amid the yen's decline on Prime Minister Abe's drastic monetary easing.
The dollar fell below ¥93.50 in Tokyo trading Wednesday after showing volatile moves abroad over a statement from top finance officials of the Group of Seven major industrial nations. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥93.20-21, down from ¥94.22-23 at the same time ...
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble called on the Group of 20 to denounce the “manipulation” of currency rates, reflecting concerns that Japan is trying to push down the yen to gain a trading advantage. “Exchange rates shouldn’t be manipulated,” Schaeuble told reporters after a ...
Market players will closely monitor discussions on currencies at the upcoming meeting of finance ministries and central bank chiefs of the Group of 20 advanced and emerging economies, Masaaki Kanno, chief economist at JP Morgan Securities Japan Co., said in a recent interview. A ...
The pace of the yen’s weakening has been too swift, Finance Minister Taro Aso said, speaking a week before a meeting of global finance chiefs at which Japan’s currency policy is expected to come under the microscope. Aso’s comments to reporters in Tokyo on ...
Japan came under renewed international pressure Monday at a meeting of financial chiefs from major economies to step up efforts toward fiscal consolidation and ensure swift passage of legislation to finance the remaining part of this year’s budget with deficit-covering bonds. The finance ministers ...
