Japan

News Hour: Japan will propose changes to its safeguard mechanism on frozen U.S. beef imports that will shorten review periods and allow importers to voluntarily lower import volumes to prevent tariffs from automatically kicking in, two...

News Hour: Japan’s space agency on Tuesday successfully launched into orbit a fourth and final satellite as part of an overall new system to improve global positioning data for a number of services and systems. An...

News Hour: Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera urged caution on Friday because more provocation was possible from North Korea on Oct. 10, when the start of lower house election campaigns in Japan coincides with one of...

News Hour: Princess Mako, the eldest granddaughter of Japanese Emperor Akihito, will wed a former classmate, the Imperial Household said on Sunday, confirming a marriage that will further deplete the royal family since she must become...

News Hour: Japan’s consumer prices rose again in July, official data showed on Friday, but it was mainly due to rising energy costs and they were still way below the central bank’s long-delayed inflation target. After...

News Hour Japan today assured that the country would continue its assistance for Bangladesh’s development. “We would continue to render assistance for the development of Bangladesh,”Japanese Ambassador in Dhaka Masato Watanabe said when he paid a...

News Hour: Japan on Saturday launched the third satellite in its effort to build a homegrown geolocation system aimed at improving the accuracy of car navigation systems and smartphone maps to mere centimeters. An H-IIA rocket...

News Hour: The US and Japan on Thursday discussed accelerating talks on strengthening bilateral trade as well as bolstering economic relations, the US Trade Representative’s office said. The meeting comes after US President Donald Trump, upon...

News Hour: Japan recorded a double-digit drop in its trade surplus in July as costs of energy imports rose on a weaker yen, government data showed on Thursday. The world’s third-largest economy logged a surplus of...

News Hour: Japan’s factory output for June ticked up on carmakers, chemical companies, and others, government data showed on Monday, in the latest sign that the economy is gathering steam. Industrial production in June grew 1.6...