| |   F1: Towards Infiniti
| A luxury car maker gets into Formula 1 in an unexpected way and reaps the rewards of associating with the fastest guys around. | DOES this seem strange? "A company selling drinks runs a Formula 1 racing team ...
Kicap, anyone?
| We decided to have a stopover in Tokyo, Japan, for a couple of days to break our journey enroute to Canada. | From Narita airport, we boarded a squeaky clean bus to our hotel. We sat near the rear end of the ...
Ancient Silk Road revived with soaring trade volumes
| Dubai: The so-called New Silk Road continues to fascinate policymakers and analysts as rising Asian economic power seals its imprint on this century. | This "east-east" corridor, named after ancient...
Resona vows early bailout payback
| Resona Holdings Inc., recipient of a ¥1.96 trillion bailout in 2003, plans to pay back most of the money still owed to taxpayers earlier than scheduled thanks to growing profit reserves. | "We've built r...
Azumi jawbones yen 'speculators' and won't rule out intervention
| The government is stepping up its monitoring of speculative moves in the currency market as the yen is showing "volatile" movement, Finance Minister Jun Azumi said Friday, hinting intervention hasn't been rul...
Matsuzaka shaky against Matsui's Bulls in rehab start
| DURHAM, North Carolina — Daisuke Matsuzaka agrees with Boston manager Bobby Valentine. The Red Sox pitcher isn't quite ready to return to the big leagues — yet. | Matsuzaka had his longest rehab s...
China hits LDP over Uighur event
| More than 100 Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers have received letters of protest from Chinese Ambassador Cheng Yonghua over the holding of the World Uyghur Congress in Tokyo, an intraparty LDP group said Fri...
Fuso claims truck has top efficiency
| YOKOHAMA — Mitsubishi Fuso Truck & Bus Corp. on Friday launched a hybrid truck that it says is the most fuel-efficient on the market, capable of carrying a 2-ton load and equipped with a dual-clutch...
Whaling ships head out for Pacific hunt
| SHIMONOSEKI, Yamaguchi Pref. — Two whaling vessels left Friday from the port of Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, to hunt whales for scientific research in the Northwestern Pacific through early August...
SMBC execs face pay cuts over leak
| SMBC Nikko Securities Inc. said Friday it will cut the pay of President Eiji Watanabe and four directors for three months over its insider information scandal. | The Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. unit submitt...
Honda to make Fit hybrids in Thailand
| Honda Motor Co. will start hybrid vehicle production in Thailand, following a similar move in the United States in April, officials said Friday. | Honda will ship batteries and other key components made in Ja...
Banned Vilma sues NFL commissioner
| NEW ORLEANS — Suspended Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma filed a defamation lawsuit Thursday against NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, claiming the league's top executive made false statements that tarnis...
Shizuoka draws in U.S., SDF to mull steps against possible Nankai Trough megaquake
| SHIZUOKA — The Shizuoka Prefectural Government held a meeting Friday in Shimoda drawing some 90 participants, including U.S. military and Self-Defense Forces brass as well as local government officials,...
Emperor thanks U.K. for 3/11 aid
| LONDON — Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko chatted with about 100 people, many of them British, at a reception at the Japanese Embassy in London on Thursday, thanking them for their contribution to re...
Japan won't help U.N. monitor the ceasefire in Syria
| NEW YORK — Japan has told the United Nations it will not send personnel to take part in a U.N. mission to monitor a ceasefire in Syria, Japanese Ambassador to the U.N. Tsuneo Nishida said Thursday. | As...
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