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Only two Japanese firms made it onto Forbes magazine's list Thursday of Asia's 200 top small and medium companies. The number of Japanese firms dwindled…

Police responded to a record 2,444 Internet crime cases nationwide in the first half of this year, a National Police Agency survey showed Thursday. The…

Only 4% of about 200 school nurses think it appropriate to inoculate girls against cervical cancer at school, an Okayama University survey showed Thursday, apparently…

Japanese stationery maker Kokuyo Co has begun marketing in China a notebook developed for university students with the help of those attending Fudan University, one…

Newly-appointed national team coach Alberto Zaccheroni wants his new charges to turn the page and create a new chapter in Japanese soccer history after their…

Pink Lady, the Japanese pop duo who dominated the charts in the 1970s, held a press conference this week to announce their sixth reunion. The…

Book retailer Maruzen Co and major Chinese information technology firm Peking University Founder Group Corp will launch in early October a business to sell electronic…

The Foreign Ministry said Thursday it has set up a task force to examine Japan's policies concerning the North Pole, as melting ice due to…

Opposition leaders criticized on Thursday the government led by the Democratic Party of Japan for failing to contain the yen's steep appreciation and stock price…

Hiromasa Yonekura, chairman of the Japan Business Federation, and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero shared a view Thursday that Japan and the European…

World Cup defender Marcus Tulio Tanaka has pulled out of the Japan squad for the upcoming friendlies against Paraguay and Guatemala because of injury, the…

Ryo Ishikawa fired a 5-under 66 to take a one shot lead in the first round in his bid to defend the title at the…

China called Thursday for a compromise among the parties to talks aimed at disarming North Korea's nuclear program in order to get the negotiations back…

Public broadcaster NHK said Thursday it will resume live coverage of sumo when the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament gets under way in Tokyo on Sept…

Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Thursday engaged in heated debate with his sole opponent in the upcoming Democratic Party of Japan presidential election, Ichiro Ozawa,…

Japan and 13 Caribbean nations agreed in Tokyo on Thursday to cooperate with each other in curbing global warming and offering support to quake-hit Haiti…

Tokyo stocks advanced Thursday, building on the previous day's gains, as stronger-than-expected U.S. manufacturing data helped ease economic worries ahead of upcoming economic indicators. The…

Dolphin activist Ric O'Barry walks toward the U.S. embassy in Tokyo to present a petition bearing 1.7 million signatures against dolphin hunts on Thursday. The…

Hideki Matsui gave Ichiro something to ponder after Ichiro climbed the right-field wall in an attempt to snag his countryman's fly ball in the seventh…

Six people have been arrested in a suspected money laundering case involving illegally receiving a total of about 570 million yen wired from a U.S.…