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TAIJI, Japan -- The Japanese fishing village featured in "The Cove," which won an Oscar for best documentary, defended its practice of hunting dolphins Monday as a part of a long tradition.The movie, which mixes stunning underwater shots of gliding d ...

Listed Japanese companies will begin using the new international fair-value accounting rule this week. Come Wednesday, Japan will allow use of IFRS 9, the international fair value rule reworked in haste following the global financial crisis, the Financial Times reports.

Godoy Cruz and Guadalajara finally lost unbeaten records as the J.League 2010 got underway, while Melbourne Victory reached the A-League decider.

TOYOTA CITY, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp said a partial review of complaints of unintended acceleration after vehicles were repaired for accelerator pedal problems, had found no evidence of failure in the electronic throttle system or in the repairs.

Japan's current account surplus widened in January

Japan's biggest Internet forum, where anonymous netizens trade anything from cooking tips to death threats, has long been an anarchic zone of uninhibited free speech and a magnet for controversy.

TOKYO, Japan—Japan's new center-left rulers plan to lift the lid soon on secret Cold War nuclear and military pacts with the United States that were denied for decades by previous conservative governments.

TOKYO - Japan's new centre-left rulers plan to lift the lid soon on secret Cold War nuclear and military pacts with the United States that were denied for decades by previous conservative governments.

A senior US envoy has warned that ties with Japan could be "affected in many fields" if Tokyo missed a May deadline for solving a dispute over an American military base, Japanese lawmakers said Saturday.

TOKYO -- Japan and the United States keep rubbing each other the wrong way.