KURIHARA (AP): Soldiers renewed their search for 13 people missing after a powerful quake rocked Japan and killed at least nine, but hopes dimmed Monday that they would be rescued alive.
By Shingo Ito, AFPTOKYO -- Tokyo's high-tech and alternative culture district of Akihabara mourned on Sunday with flowers and comic books one week after a man killed seven people in a stabbing frenzy that stunned the nation.
TOKYO: The dollar neared a four-month high against the yen on Monday, having earlier dipped after Group of Eight finance ministers failed to produce a strong message against dollar weakness at their weekend meeting.
Law could become fourth notorious law that may shrink consumer spending and accelerate recession Shigeto Ohata, head of the legal management department of Toyota Finance Corp, has expressed a sense of crisis over the revised bill of the Installment
Softbank overcomes its earlier harsh experience Softbank Corp has eventually won a behind-the-scenes battle over the right to distribute Apple Inc?s iPhone. The battle lasted for about a year and a half.
A deal between Japan and China to jointly develop gas fields in the East China Sea has put an end to a long-running territorial dispute over the area. Japan has estimated the field contains the equivalent of 180 million barrels in oil reserves.
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