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Mitsubishi Australia will sell a new model below its Outlander SUV in 2010, and both will be available with front-wheel drive. Mitsubishi will exploit the reduced import tarriff for passenger cars by importing two-wheel-drive versions of its new 'sub-compact' and...

Police on Sunday arrested a 30-year-old man on charges of assault after he punched a six-year-old elementary school student twice in the stomach on Sept 19. Kunihiko Katsuda is suspected of grabbing the Himeji City girl while she was walking...

An 18-year-old man, a 17-year-old girl and two 15-year-old boys were taken into custody on Saturday, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department said. They are accused of causing a severe head injury to a 23-year-old restaurant employee by stringing a rope...

Although Japan needs to get its fiscal house in order, it should also focus on boosting economic growth by fostering new markets and cutting red tape, top government officials and economists said at an economic forum in Tokyo on Monday....

The number of single-family houses and condominium units auctioned off in Japan jumped 46.3 percent from a year earlier to 30,180 between April and September amid high unemployment and falling incomes, a real estate industry group said Sunday. ‘‘The effects...