Japan the latest to rebuff Premiership's overseas plan
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The powerful Japan Football Association on Wednesday become the latest organisation to reject plans by the English Premier League to stage matches overseas.
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Japan's ruling party considers proposing constitutional changes to let women take the throne, reports say.
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Japanese officials, arriving in Washington on Thursday for a historic meeting between the Group of Seven (G7) nations and China, distanced themselves from US demands for a review of China&#39;s currency policy.
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Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda said Friday he wanted his cabinet to stay in place, dismissing reports he would reshuffle his team in January in a bid to bolster flagging support.
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Australia will continue to photograph Japan's whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said on Sunday, despite Japan's warning of a diplomatic protest over Australia's tough anti-whaling stance.
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Japan's PM Yasuo Fukuda calls for greater discipline from defence officials following a series of scandals.
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Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said Monday he still considers Iraq&#39;s southern city of Samawah as a &quot;noncombat&quot; region despite the Iraqi government had announced a state
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For the third time since he took office in 2001, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has made changes to his Cabinet. The premier installed a team of ministers and top party officials whom he expects will back his key reform efforts.
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Japan&#39;s ruling party wants to revise the constitution to allow a woman to succeed to the throne and to officially designate the emperor head of state, according to a draft proposal released on Wednesday.
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Earlier Tuesday Japan&#39;s Justice Ministry rejected his demand to stay in the country, saying no justification had been found to grant him protection as a political refugee.
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Japan's opposition-controlled upper house on Friday voted down a bill to resume a naval mission supporting the US-led "war on terror," a decision doomed to be overriden by the lower house.
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Japanâs ruling party was expected to push into law a bill to revive a naval mission to support U.S.-led forces.
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Japan's new prime minister denied on Tuesday that he wants to change the country's pacifist constitution to permit its military to wage war overseas.
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Japan's ruling party is eyeing an overhaul of the post-war constitution to allow the military to use force in international missions and let a woman ascend the throne.
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Nomura, the Japanese bank, is involved in a plan to block any bid for Manchester United by Malcolm Glazer, according to the Financial Times.
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China has voiced concern over Japan&#39;s overhaul of defence policy that eased a decades-old ban on arms exports and suggested a shift from a defensive posture.
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The Football Association (FA), the national governing body for the sport in England, on Friday became the latest organisation to criticise plans by the English Premier League (EPL) to play competitive matches overseas.