Fukuda, Xi meet at confab in China but stay silent on tensions

Former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda will visit China for a regional forum this weekend, an aide said Wednesday, with speculation that he will meet China's new president on the sidelines. Fukuda, a 76-year-old veteran who was prime minister ...

Yasuo Fukuda (L), chairman of the Board of Directors of the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA), talks with Zhou Wenzhong, secretary-general of the BFA, before the BFA Board of Directors Meeting in Boao, south China's Hainan Province, April 5, 2013. The BFA ...

Featured National President Joyce Banda leaves the country for Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to attend the African Union Summit and will proceed to Tokyo, Japan for the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD). Presidential press ...

The issue involves the fate of more than a dozen Japanese who were snatched by North Korean agents and spirited away to the North, ostensibly to train more agents in Japanese language and manners for future espionage. Most of these disappearances ...

For Delhis chatterati, the ultimate status symbol is getting the prime minister to attend the weddings of their sons or daughters. Luckily for Manmohan Singh, the Special Protection Group, which guards him round the clock, has been a handy excuse ...

OSAKA If an Osaka company has its way, getting roaring drunk and jumping, or falling, into Dotonbori Canal after either a Hanshin Tigers victory or a wild night out in neighboring Shinsaibashi will be less risky, healthwise, but it will no longer ...

KYB Co., Ltd. Marubeni-Itochu Steel Inc. KYB Co., Ltd. (KYB; head office: Minato-ku, Tokyo; president: Masao Usui) and Marubeni-Itochu Steel Inc. (MISI; head office: Chuo-ku, Tokyo; president: Yasuo Matsuura) are pleased to announce their plans to ...

Incentives are needed to reverse the decline in Japanese enrollment at U.S. universities as Japanese companies compete harder and earlier to recruit new graduates, experts said at a symposium. They need clear incentives and encouragement from the ...

An ex- President of the Republic of Ghana, Flt Lt Jerry John Rawlings, has, at a conference of former heads of state in Bahrain, called on Israel to restrain itself in its involvement in the conflict in Syria.President Rawlings also called on the ...