Abe tells Merkel to dress down and save energy
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German chancellor Angela Merkel is familiar with Cold War diplomacy, but on Wednesday she had her first encounter with Cool Biz diplomacy.
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sought on  Sunday to contain fallout from his remarks about women forced  to act as wartime sex slaves for Japanese soldiers as the furor  threatened to cloud summits with Chinese and U.S. leaders.
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HOHEN DEMZIN, Germany, June 7 -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel's greatest accomplishment in advance of this week's G-8 summit had nothing to do with global warming or easing tensions with Russia. Rather, it was just persuading her reclusive husband to show up.
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French President Jacques Chirac may have presided over the European Union's longest summit, but that did not prevent him from giving Germany's Angela Merkel some advice on Friday on how to keep meetings short.
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Germany's Chancellor Merkel urges vigilance to prevent child abuse, in a New Year address.
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Tony Blair is to meet Angela Merkel to discuss aid and climate change ahead of the G8 summit.
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Voters want Shinzo Abe to prioritize domestic issues over regional relationships.
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Front-runner Shinzo Abe has opened his bid to become Japan's next prime minister with calls for a more assertive nation but also better relations with Asian neighbors.
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Pending job cuts at Airbus are expected to top the agenda at a meeting between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Jacques Chirac in Germany on Friday.Comment
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Japan&#39;s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived in Berlin on Tuesday ahead of his first G8 summit, saying the Asian power would use its clout to act as a go-between in the fraught debate on climate change.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Jacques Chirac called Friday for a &quot;fair division&quot; of the burden in restructuring crisis-hit European aircraft maker Airbus.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has vowed to create a leaner government and foster innovation to pilot the debt-laden economy through threats posed by the shrinking and aging population.
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German Chancellor Angela  Merkel met Poland&#39;s president on Saturday in a last-ditch  effort to convince Warsaw to drop its threat to veto talks on a  new European Union treaty.
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Economic reform may test Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's agenda.
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Get INQ7 breaking news on your Smart mobile phone in the Philippines. Send INQ7 BREAKING to 386. MACAU, China -- Chinese President Hu Jintao on Monday gave an unprecedented public dressing down to the leadership
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has made climate change a key focus of her presidency of the G8 group of world leaders, flew Wednesday into Japan for talks a decade after the Kyoto Protocol.
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Germany's Federal chancellor Angela Merkel , whose country currently holds the European Union presidency, and Germany's Foreign Minister Franck-Walter Steinmeier wait for the arrival of Eurpean leaders ahead of ...Comment