Honda Motor Co <7267.T> said it would build fewer cars in Japan, Europe and North America to reflect an increasingly bleak outlook for sales as the global economic crisis discourages big-ticket purchases.
Cases of violence by Japanese school students hit a record high in the past year, with elementary students increasingly violent, the education ministry said.
A Japanese naval destroyer failed to intercept a dummy ballistic missile in a test aimed at mimicking an intermediate-range North Korean ballistic missile attack, the United States and Japan announced on Wednesday.
Japan's exports to Asia fell in October for the first time since 2002, showing that the fallout from the credit crisis has spread to neighbors such as China and adding momentum to investors' flight to the safety of cash.
Nov 20 - As Detroit's Big Three again looked to the government for auto industry aid, the head of Japan's Nissan says it's not eyeing a U.S. partnership.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The global economy saw more signs of distress on Thursday with U.S. stocks plunging for a second consecutive day, oil prices falling, a surprise rate cut in Switzerland, export woes in Japan and rescue loans to Turkey and Iceland.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's No.3 bank joined larger rivals seeking to raise funds to counter growing bad loans, deepening the economic gloom in Asia Wednesday, as markets fretted over the fate of the sinking U.S. car industry.
Nov 19 - Japan may be in recession, but for those with the cash, Tokyo remains the world's best dining city, according to Michelin's latest restaurant guide.
Asian stocks fell on Tuesday after Citigroup cut 52,000 jobs in a dramatic move to save itself and downbeat policymaker comments reflected worsening economic conditions that will unlikely improve until well into 2009.
Japanese police posted guards at the homes of former health ministry bureaucrats Tuesday after attacks on the families of ex-officials left two people dead and another wounded, reports said.
