Economy
Fed to start tapering bond purchases this year: Bernanke
The Federal Reserve maintains its $85 billion-a-month asset purchase program, but says it could begin scaling back later this year.
National Apr 23, 2013
Okinawa Assembly protests accord
The Okinawa Prefectural Assembly lodged a protest with the central government Monday over the signing of a fishery accord with Taiwan that could hurt the local economy. Some members of the assembly visited Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato in Tokyo to hand over ...
National Mar 27, 2013
Most new high school textbooks describe Takeshima, Senkaku Islands as Japanese
The education ministry announces that most of the new textbooks approved for use in high schools starting in April 2014 describe the Senkaku Islands and Takeshima as Japanese possessions.
National Feb 24, 2013
South Korean hurls feces at Japanese Embassy in Seoul over Takeshima row
A South Korean man hurled human feces into the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on Friday to protest Tokyo’s sovereignty claim to a pair of islets controlled by South Korea, but he was freed by police despite carrying out an identical attack last August, Yonhap ...
Social Issues Feb 18, 2013
Singaporeans call for 'change'
Singapore’s biggest protest in decades shows that the ruling party for over half a century is facing a more vocal electorate and must change or watch its popularity slide further, analysts say. At least 3,000 Singaporeans chanted “we want change” and endured heavy downpours ...