New Japan PM Fukuda apologizes over fund reports
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Japan's new prime minister, Yasuo Fukuda, apologized on Friday but denied wrongdoing after a newspaper reported that his office had altered the names of political support groups on receipts for donations, Kyodo news agency said.
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Japan's second-largest bank says it is committed to supporting struggling Mitsubishi Motors, despite denying it is preparing 100bn yen of fresh investment
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Japan's Yasuo Fukuda rules out a reshuffle but admits his first months in office have not gone smoothly.
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TOKYO -- Japan's nationalist prime minister denied yesterday that the country's military forced women into sexual slavery during World War II, casting doubt on a past government apology and jeopardizing a fragile detente with his Asian neighbors.
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Minister apologises for 'deeply regrettable' failure to declare tens of thousands of pounds
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Former Japanese defense minister Fukushiro Nukaga will become finance minister in Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's reshuffled cabinet, public broadcaster NHK reported on Monday.
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Shinzo Abe, the front-runner to be Japan's next prime minister, said there was no need to make a freshly worded apology over the nation's war atrocities.
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China has admitted that its submarine intruded into Japanese waters last week and apologized over the incident, Japan's top government spokesman Hiroyuki Hosoda told a news conference Tuesday.
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Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda and other Japanese leaders on Tuesday voiced outrage over an American Marine's alleged rape of a 14-year-old girl in Okinawa, saying they were fed up with crimes by US troops.
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Japan's outgoing PM Shinzo Abe apologises for his sudden resignation, as his successor picks new party deputies.
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Japan on Wednesday brushed aside calls from US lawmakers for a fresh apology to wartime sex slaves, even as the former &quot;comfort women&quot; renewed their demands for Tokyo to acknowledge their plight.
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Japan began sending warnings to an estimated 8.5 million people Monday that their pension data may have gone missing, as the government seeks to clean up a scandal that has damaged its credibility.
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The US ambassador to Japan offered a personal apology Wednesday over a US Marine's alleged rape of a young girl in Okinawa, amid warnings that the incident will damage the countries' alliance.
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Japan will not apologize again for its World War II military brothels, even if the U.S. Congress passes a resolution demanding it, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told parliament Monday.
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Japan's new prime minister names his economic team but is urged to outline plans to maintain Japan's growth.
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Japan's Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda pledged Tokyo-led initiatives on climate change and economic development in the near future in a comment piece in the Financial Times on Friday.
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Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda of Japan voiced anger Tuesday over the alleged rape of a 14-year-old girl in Okinawa by a United States marine.