TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's trade ministry said on Tuesday that three fires had been caused by overheating Apple iPod nanos, which it said could be due to a battery defect.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp's Xbox 360 beat Sony Corp's PlayStation 3 in Japan weekly sales for the first time two weeks ago, riding robust demand for a recent Xbox 360 title produced by Namco Bandai Holdings , a magazine publisher said.
Japanese police are pursuing arrest warrants against three activists from the U.S.-based animal rights group Sea Shepherd for allegedly attacking Japanese whaling ships last year, an official said Monday.
Two dozen elderly Filipino women and their supporters protested outside the Japanese Embassy in Manila on Friday demanding a clear-cut apology and compensation from Tokyo for wartime sexual slavery.
Aug 13 - Japan's economy contracted, reinforcing views the world No. 2 may have slipped into recession after the longest growth run since World War Two.
North Korea and Japan have set guidelines for a new probe into Pyongyang's kidnappings of Japanese citizens, aiming to finish the investigation this fall and return all surviving victims, Japan's government said Wednesday.
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Japan's largest bank, said it would bid $3 billion to buy the remaining 35 percent of California's UnionBanCal Corp as it looks for growth beyond its softening home market.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told Japan that Washington will not remove North Korea from a U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism on Monday, Japanese Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura said.
Toyota Motor Corp <7203.T> will raise prices of hybrid cars and commercial vehicles by 1-3 percent in Japan as early as this year amid soaring raw material costs, the Nikkei business daily reported on Monday.
