Tags: Japan

Claims government covered up dangers to rescue workers

Promising to restore growth

Sixteen month low against the euro

The incoming president of South Korea, though, has already vowed to reach out to North Korea and soften her party's hard line stance

Claims sovereignty over the uninhavited but resource rich islands in the East China Sea

Long ruling Liberal Democratic Party back in power in Japan

LDP and New Komeito win a powerful two-thirds majority

Voters fret over economic doldrums, tensions with China

Fighter jets dispatched

Sunday election expected to result in a change of government

China flies a plane over the islands in the East China Sea

And not in an especially lucrative way

Citizens reacted quickly to Friday morning tremblor

No deaths or injuries reported

The war on drugs goes on and on...

Closing a "loophole" the government says

Japan, China and sometimes South Korea have been arguing over uninhabited islands there for months

Elections scheduled for December

Lawmakers hold high-profile event

Claims Economics Minister Seiji Maehara