Indian Express
An official from the defence ministry said Japan would now pay 9.6 billion yen (USD 120 million) per aircraft, up from the USD 110 million originally earmarked. He added US officials had said the price rise was unavoidable and Tokyo accepted the...
Channel NewsAsia
Japan's unemployment rate fell to 4.4 per cent in May, edging down from 4.6 per cent the previous month, the internal affairs ministry said Friday, while household spending jumped from a year ago. The official jobless figure was lower than a market...
DAWN
Japan has found a large deposit of rare earth minerals in its Pacific seabed, enough to supply its hi-tech industries for more than 200 years, a scientist said Friday. Around 6.8 million tonnes of the valuable minerals, used in electric cars, iPods...
The Jakarta Post
Associated Press, Tokyo World Fri, 06/29/2012 10:57 AM Japan and South Korea have agreed to share intelligence in their first joint military pact since World War II...It will allow sharing intelligence in such areas as missile defense, North Korea's...
Channel NewsAsia
Top Japanese brokerage Nomura will cut its chief executive's pay as a penalty for an embarrassing string of insider trading scandals, reports said Friday, as regulators ramp up a probe. The firm plans to temporarily chop compensation for Kenichi...
HNN
The whole thing might not have happened if not for a court injunction. But in Tokyo, the show went on, as Japanese visitors braved angry demonstrators and tight security to see photographs of Korean comfort women. The uproar over the black-and-...