JAPAN'S DIET ELECTED SHINZO ABE AS NEW PREMIER
Shinzo Abe, newly-elected Prime Minister of Japan, leaves the plenary session of the Upper House in Tokyo, Japan, on September 26, 2006. Both Houses overwhelmingly elected Abe as the 90th premier. (UPI Photo/Keizo Mori)
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Japan is likely to restart talks with India on bilateral civilian nuclear cooperation as it seeks markets for nuclear plant exports, sources told Kyodo News.
The Japanese economy is picking up slowly, the Cabinet Office said Monday in its upwardly revised May monthly assessment report.
The Nikkei index, maintaining its upward momentum, jumped past 15,300 points on the Tokyo Stock Exchange early Monday, its highest level in 65 months.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says he will keep pressuring North Korea to settle the unresolved issue of the abductions of Japanese nationals.
Japanese official Isao Iijima, who made a surprise visit to North Korea this week, met with that country's No. 2 leader, the North's official media said.
Japan's economy, spurred by stimulus measures, grew at an annual rate of 3.5 percent in the first quarter, the Cabinet Office said Thursday.
An adviser to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has made an unannounced trip to North Korea but the object of the visit wasn't clear, U.S. media said.
Asian benchmark Nikkei, with the U.S. dollar at the 102-yen level, crossed 15,000 points for the first time in 64 months on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Wednesday.
U.S. investor Daniel Loeb is pressing Japanese corporate giant Sony to break itself up to sharpen its focus, a letter to the company revealed.
Japan has no intention of modifying World War II apologies issued in the 1990s by the country's Socialist prime minister, a Cabinet official said.
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