News Source: Japan Times
| about 1 month ago
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key is coming to Japan on a mission: He wants to press his case for a bilateral free-trade agreement. Key starts his six-day trip Tuesday. He plans to meet with Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama as well as Emperor Akihito...
News Source: Japan Times
| about 1 month ago
That is the chief message from the meetings of Asia-Pacific leaders that convened last weekend in Thailand. The region's rapid emergence from the global economic downturn has confirmed the belief among its leaders that it is time for an Asian...
News Source: dailymail
| about 1 month ago
China, Japan and the Republic of Korea (10+3), the fourth East Asia Summit, in Hua Hin of Thailand from Oct. 23 to Oct. 25. Yang noted that Premier Wen put forward a number of proposals and measures, which both tackle the immediate urgent tasks and...
News Source: Kyodo News
| about 1 month ago
At this chalk factory, seventy percent of employees are ''challenged'' with some kind of disability. But it is nonetheless one of the country's leading makers of dustless chalk, whose particles are less likely to float in the air. This anecdote...
News Source: Channel NewsAsia
| about 1 month ago
Japan's centre-left Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama stressed in his first policy address to parliament Monday that he wants a relationship of equals with the United States. Hatoyama, who took power last month, was speaking ahead of US President Barack...
News Source: The Age
| about 1 month ago
Leaders at a summit of 16 nations meeting in Thailand at the weekend heard the prime ministers of Australia and Japan set out competing visions for a regional bloc that would boost Asia's global clout. But beneath the talk of unity and the "Asian...