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Japan: New leader faces challenge over US base

01.09.09
Japan's parliament is set to vote Democratic Party leader Yukio Hatoyama in as prime minister in about two weeks, a party official said ... more

Jobless levels in Japan soar to post-war high as prices dive

28.08.09
Unemployment in Japan surged to a post-war high in July and prices fell at a record pace, threatening to undermine a nascent recovery for the world’s second-largest economy ... more

Sell-off in miners leaves the takeovers buzz feeling flat

13.07.09
Shares were on the slide again today despite several billion pounds' worth of takeovers being dangled in front of City speculators in order to whet their appetites... more

What Mr Brown can really achieve

01.04.09
The start of the G20 summit - a flurry of high-level breakfast meetings, concluding with a splendid reception for the world leaders this evening with the Queen - may be both glamorous and imposing but the backdrop to the event is downright sombre... more

Sarkozy insists there is 'no agreement yet'

01.04.09
French president Nicolas Sarkozy and Germany's Angela Merkel exposed the split at the heart of the G20 summit by warning that they will not tolerate a fresh global economic stimulus package... more

'Drunken' Japanese minister bows out

17.02.09
Politics: Japanese Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa has said he will resign following accusations he was drunk at a G7 press conference in Rome... more

Japanese minister quits but says: I wasn't drunk

17.02.09
Japanese finance minister Shoichi Nakagawa said he would resign after accusations that he was drunk at a G7 meeting... more

'Drunken' minister blames medicine

16.02.09
Japan's finance minister has denied that he was drunk at a news conference in Rome, claiming a combination of wine the day before and cold medicine may have affected him... more

Japan sees its economy shrink 3.3 per cent

16.02.09
Japan has sunk into its worst recession since the oil crisis of the Seventies with its economy contracting by 3.3 per cent in the final quarter of last year... more

Sarkozy keeps the new president on line for 30 minutes

07.11.08
Nicolas Sarkozy stole a lead on other world leaders in the race to build closer ties with president-elect Barack Obama... more

Japan pledges to help its banks

27.10.08
Economics: The Japanese government stepped in with fresh promises of help for banks as stocks in Tokyo fell for the fourth day in a row... more

Chaos in US takes toll on exports from Japan

25.09.08
Japan's exports are beginning to feel the pinch from the chaos in the US as growth slowed in August, with a record drop in shipments to America... more


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