TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's defense ministry is moving toward selecting Lockheed Martin Corp's <LMT.N> F-35 jet as the mainstay of its next-generation fighter ...
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's trade minister disclosed market sensitive third-quarter GDP figures to oil industry executives on Monday ahead of its official release, ...
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan Airlines Corp <9205.T> shares slid 12 percent to a record low on Friday as investors suggested bankruptcy may be an option for Asia's biggest airline by revenue, even as the government again pledged to support the troubled carrier. ...
Japan's Parliamentary Defence Secretary Akihisa Nagashima said he told the United States that Tokyo will halt a refuelling mission backing US forces in Afghanistan, Kyodo news agency reported Thursday. Kyodo said that Nagashima, the third-ranking defence official, had said on Wednesday US ...
Japan's transport minister said on Tuesday that good progress was being made in drawing up a restructuring plan for Japan Airlines, which is reported to be considering more than 9,000 job cuts. JAL, seeking another public bailout to keep flying, is putting ...
Japanese media on Monday hailed veteran Kimiko Date-Krumm's first tournament victory in 13 years, which made her the oldest winner of a WTA event since Billie Jean King in 1983. Date-Krumm, who celebrated her 39th birthday on Monday, won the Korean Open ...
A bear was shot dead Saturday after it attacked nine people, including tourists, at a bus station in a mountainous area of central Japan, Kyodo news agency reported. Four men were seriously injured in the attack in Takayama, Gifu prefecture, Kyodo said, ...
A bear was shot dead on Saturday after it attacked nine people, mostly tourists, at a bus station in a mountainous area of central Japan, Kyodo news agency reported. Four men were seriously injured in the attack in Takayama, Gifu prefecture, Kyodo ...
Chinese authorities assaulted three journalists from a Japanese news agency in their Beijing hotel room, the agency said early Saturday, kicking them and destroying two computers. The three journalists from Kyodo News were in the Chinese capital covering a National Day rehearsal ...
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's leader-to-be Yukio Hatoyama may choose Masayuki Naoshima, his party's policy chief, as finance minister instead of Hirohisa Fujii, a former finance ministry official, Kyodo news agency reported on Monday. Fujii, a veteran lawmaker who briefly served as finance ...
Cash-strapped Japan Airlines could receive a capital injection worth hundreds of millions of dollars from US carrier Delta Air Lines under a tie-up, Japanese media reported Friday. JAL, Asia's biggest carrier, has entered "full-scale" talks over capital aid of "tens of billions ...
TOKYO (Reuters) - Delta Air Lines <DAL.N>, the world's biggest carrier, is in talks to invest in struggling Japan Airlines Corp (JAL) <9205.T> and become its top shareholder, Japanese media said on Friday. Public broadcaster NHK and Kyodo news said Delta was ...
