Tokyo, April 7 (Jiji Press)--Japan's Nippon Paper Group Inc. <3893>
aims to strengthen its businesses abroad, mainly in Southeast Asia, after it

Tokyo, April 6 (Jiji Press)--The Japanese Finance Ministry is set to take the initiative in reviving a plan to create an Asian version of the International Monetary Fund but in a low-profile manner

Tokyo, April 3 (Jiji Press)--Internal Affairs and Communications

Tokyo, March 27 (Jiji Press)--Japan's defense minister Friday
ordered a deployment of interceptors to protect the country from a North

Tokyo, March 25 (Jiji Press)--The 2010 summit of the Asia-Pacific
Economic Cooperation forum will be held in Yokohama, south of Tokyo,

Tokyo, March 24 (Jiji Press)--Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy Ltd., a joint venture between Japan's Hitachi Ltd. <6501> and General Electric Co.

Tokyo, March 23 (Jiji Press)--A gigantic project to relocate the functions of Japan's capital from Tokyo, touted as a plan to "change the shape of the nation," is on the verge of extinction.

Narita, Chiba Pref., March 23 (Jiji Press)--An inbound cargo plane
operated by U.S. parcel delivery firm FedEx Corp. burst into flames at

Kanazawa, Ishikawa Pref., March 18 (Jiji Press)--The Kanazawa branch of Nagoya High Court on Wednesday overturned a lower court ruling that ordered a halt to the operations of a nuclear power react

Tokyo, March 17 (Jiji Press)--More than 300 major Japanese