News Source: Japan Today
| 20 days ago
Japan’s foreign exchange reserves at the end of October rose $4.17 billion from a month earlier to a record $1,056.77 billion, due to rises in gold prices and the euro, the Finance Ministry said Monday. The reserves, the world’s second largest...
News Source: Japan Today
| 21 days ago
Sales of imported motor vehicles in Japan, including those made at Japanese carmakers’ overseas plants, plunged 22.7% in October from a year earlier to 11,390 units amid severe economic conditions, an industry body said. The number represents the...
News Source: Associated Press
| 21 days ago
President Barack Obama is attending a memorial service at Fort Hood on Tuesday and now won't get to his planned first stop in Asia next week until one day later than expected. The president was to leave Washington on Wednesday and arrive in Tokyo on...
News Source: Times of Oman
| 22 days ago
Tokyo intends to bid for 2020 Summer Olympics, despite recently losing out to Rio de Janeiro in the race for the 2016 Games, governor Shintaro Ishihara said in an interview published on Saturday. Ishihara is set to leave office in 2011, a few months...
News Source: Kyodo News
| 22 days ago
Sadako Ogata, president of the Japan International Cooperation Agency, said Saturday she anticipates that the new aid package being planned by Tokyo for Afghanistan will be a more direct one for the country, saying the ongoing refueling mission in...
News Source: Japan Today
| 22 days ago
The United States has asked that President Barack Obama’s visit to Japan be pushed back from next Thursday to Friday, a source close to Japan’s Foreign Ministry said Saturday. Obama, who originally planned to visit Nov 12 and 13, asked for the...