Japan

Japan Machine Orders Fall More-Than-Estimated 7.1% as Yen Climbs

8 Feb 2012

Japan’s machinery orders fell at the fastest pace in three months in December as a faltering global economy and gains by the yen dimmed the outlook for exporters.

BA, Japan Airlines agree tie-up on flights

8 Feb 2012

British Airways and Japan Airlines have agreed a tie-up on flights between Europe and the world's third-biggest economy in a new cost-cutting initiative, BA parent group IAG said on Wednesday.

U.S., Japan decouple Marines' Guam move from Okinawa

8 Feb 2012

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan and the United States agreed on Wednesday to decouple the transfer of thousands of U.S. Marines to Guam from the southern Japan island of Okinawa from plans to relocate a base on Okinawa, a step forward in resolving an irritant in relations. The shift of U.S. Marines to the Pacific island of Guam had been linked to progress in relocating the Futenma airbase on Okinawa ...