TEHRAN, July 02 -Business confidence among Japan’s big manufacturers worsened for a second straight quarter in the three months to June, a Bank of Japan survey showed, with the outlook clouded by U.S. trade protectionism and rising input costs.
TEHRAN, June 29 - Japan will next week pick a U.S.-made advanced radar for its multibillion-dollar missile defense system, an upgrade that could help ease trade friction with Washington and provide cutting-edge protection against the arsenals of North Korea and China, sources said.
TEHRAN, June 29 - Japan's spacecraft Hayabusa-2 has reached its target destination, the asteroid Ryugu. After a 3.5-year journey, the probe is now within 20 kilometers, or 12.5 miles, of the distant space rock.
TEHRAN, June 29 -Japan’s household spending is forecast to fall for a fourth straight month in May, a Reuters poll showed on Friday, adding to worries about weak consumer expenditure that sent the economy into a first-quarter contraction.
TEHRAN, June 28 - Japan has slipped through to the round of 16 of the 2018 World Cup despite a loss to Poland and thanks to better disciplinary records.
TEHRAN, June 27 -A Japanese probe has reached an asteroid 300 million kilometres away to collect information about the birth of the solar system and the origin of life after a more than three-year voyage through deep space.
TEHRAN, June 26 - Japan is seeking an "early" exemption from the US on sanctions against Iran to facilitate oil shipping arrangements, a Japanese government source has said.
TEHRAN, June 26 - Police said a knife-wielding man slashed and killed an officer in a neighborhood police station in northern Japan on Tuesday, took the man's gun and fatally shot a security guard outside a nearby elementary school.
TEHRAN, June 25 - Japan’s Toshiba Corp (6502.T) on Monday said the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) had completed an investigation of its past accounting practices without fining the company.
TEHRAN, June 24 - Following its policies against Iran, US has asked Tokyo to halt all crude purchases from Iran, insisting that its allies cease all trade with the country.
TEHRAN, June 22 - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is considering a state visit to Iran in July as Tokyo is seeking to strengthen economic ties with Tehran, government sources have said.
TEHRAN, June 21 - Japan has decided to halt drills to prepare for a North Korean missile attack after a summit between the leaders of the United States and North Korea eased tension, Kyodo news agency reported on Thursday.
TEHRAN, June 18 - A great earthquake of 5.3 magnitude shook the Japanese city of Osaka on Monday claiming the lives of three people and injuring over 200 others, AFP reported.
TEHRAN, June 18 -The South Korean military is set to launch war games off its east coast the aim of preventing “an invasion” of the Dokdo islands, which have been at the center of a territorial dispute between Seoul and Tokyo.
TEHRAN, June 18 - An elderly man and a young girl were killed, with several other people also in “cardiopulmonary arrest”, after walls collapsed in a magnitude-6.1 earthquake that hit Osaka in western Japan on Monday, public broadcaster NHK said.
TEHRAN, June 14 - Japan is working to arrange a meeting between Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Kim Jong Un after the North Korean leader said he was open to talks, local media reported Thursday.
TEHRAN, June 14 - The utility responsible for meltdowns at a nuclear power plant in northeast Japan seven years ago said for the first time publicly it might decommission another plant in Fukushima that narrowly escaped the crisis.
TEHRAN, June 13 -Japan has offered to pay the initial costs of North Korea’s potential denuclearization, in the midst of high-profile diplomacy between the United States and the two Koreas that has often left Tokyo on the margins.