Japan's finance minister pledged after talks with U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Thursday to steadily reduce oil imports from Iran in support of U.S. sanctions on Tehran over its disputed nuclear programme. (get the story…)
Japan will start to reduce oil imports from Iran in support of U.S. sanctions against Tehran over its nuclear program, Finance Minister Jun Azumi said Thursday after meeting with U.S. Treasury Secretary … (read the story…)
North Korea’s new young leader navigated a tank and watched as jets tore through the skies in footage aired Sunday on state television, in the latest effort to show that he has the support of the powerful military. (read more here…)
Acknowledging the significant role that the East Asia Summit (EAS) can play as a forum for building an open, inclusive and transparent architecture of regional cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region, (read more…)
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Nikkei average dropped below a key support level in holiday-thinned trade on Tuesday, on track for a flat performance in December and double-digit losses for the year. With many overseas investors on year-end holidays, market participants said it had been difficult to buy risk assets though the re-opening of stock...
Reuters – More than half the Japanese public oppose a proposed doubling of the country’s 5 percent sales tax by mid-decade, a newspaper poll showed on Monday, boding ill for the government’s aim of fleshing out its plan on overhauling taxes by a self-imposed year-end deadline. (read the story…)
