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A sweeping suspension of domestic production is almost unprecedented. In 1993, Toyota halted output for one day as a strong yen hammered sales. Japanese-built cars make up around 40 per cent of Toyota's sales in the United States, where foreign-made...

Parliamentary Secretary for Internal Affairs and Communications Tetsushi Sakamoto on Tuesday retracted his controversial remarks that questioned whether unemployed people who took shelter in a Tokyo park over the New Year period really possess the will to work.      Referring to...

Japanese whalers are trying to disrupt anti-whaling efforts by getting other nations to refuse activists entry to their ports to refuel their ship. The Japan Whaling Association has called on the Australian and New Zealand governments to close their ports...

The bold demands from Yoshimi Watanabe, former state minister for administrative reform, reflect increasingly open dissatisfaction within the ruling LDP with the prime minister, who has already seen his support ratings plunge to levels that proved politically fatal to previous...

Opposition lawmaker Yukio Hatoyama, meanwhile, demanded that Aso resign and call for snap elections, which must by law take place by September this year. Hatoyama, a leader of the Democratic Party of Japan, demanded Aso scrap a plan to give...

Two taxi drivers were assaulted early Tuesday in Osaka Prefecture but the cases are not believed to be related to two recent fatal taxi holdups in the prefecture, police said. Police arrested a 23-year-old temp worker, Masahito Sawamura, for slightly...

If the Conservatives want to regain their reputation for economic competence, they will have to do better than this. David Cameron's claim that the "innocent victims" of "Gordon Brown's recession" include the nation's savers has some truth in it, but...