Japan?s current account surplus fell 8.6 percent in March compared to a year earlier, thanks largely to higher energy costs, the country?s Finance Ministry revealed Thursday. A stronger-than-desired yen is also weighing on export growth and it makes Japanese goods less competitive.
Toyota Motor Corporation (NYSE: TM) reported a 30 percent drop in income for its fiscal year ended March 31, but the company is nevertheless making headway down the road to recovery from last year's earthquake in Japan and floods in Thailand as income for January-March 2012 increased by a factor of five.
Now approaching three months after ?Mass Effect 3? was officially released, it seems concerns about the less-than-satisfying ending have begun to quiet down. Fans have made their opinion known to developer BioWare through various movements, such as the delivery of over 400 cupcakes to the office located in Edmonton, Alberta.
Washington will host Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda for three days of bilateral discussions over trade policy and the North Korean and Iranian nuclear threats, in hopes of strengthening the US-Japan alliance.
A Japan earthquake struck a southeastern section of Honshu island Tuesday afternoon, rocking the region with a reported 5.5-magnitude shock.
A soccer ball found washed up on the shores of Alaska's Middleton Island will be returned to its rightful owner: a Japanese teenager named Misaki Murakami, who lost all of his worldly possessions during last year's tsunami.
The 2,080-foot Tokyo Sky Tree, branded as the world’s tallest freestanding tower, rises just 640 feet shy of the world-record-holder for tallest building, Dubai’s Burj Khalifa. The Sky Tree will open to tourists on May 22.
Japan reported Thursday a record trade deficit for fiscal year 2011 as exports tumbled on account of falling global demand and a nuclear energy crisis that resulted in the rise of oil and gas imports.
Shintaro Ishihara may not be a household name in the United States. But in East Asia, he is often at the center of international controversy because of nationalistic-themed statements that regularly infuriate China and South Korea -- and on Monday, he did it again.
A 6.7-magnitude earthquake struck Chile on Monday night, causing minor damage and one death in the strong quake that hit port city Valparaiso.
As many as 600,000 Macs worldwide have been infested by the sudden attack of Flashback Trojan.
The western coast of Mexico was struck by a more powerful earthquake Thursday morning after a 6.5 magnitude trembler rocked the sparsely populated mountain region in Michoacan state Wednesday evening.
A strong earthquake hit western Mexico on Wednesday, shaking buildings as far away as the capital and sending people rushing out of offices onto the streets, though there were no reports of major damage.
India has withdrawn its tsunami warning from earlier today, which was issued following the massive earthquake which rocked the region measuring 8.6 on the Richter scale in Indonesia this afternoon India Standard Time (IST), reported the Press Trust of India.
An 8.7 magnitude earthquake struck right off the waters of Indonesia on April 11, 2012. The large quake could be felt in Singapore, Thailand and India, striking fear in thousands of people. Fear of a tsunami striking is due to the 2004 earthquake that hit Indonesia. Take a look at photos of the devastation that the 2004 earthquake and tsunami caused to the Aceh province in Indonesia.
On Wednesday an 8.7 magnitude earthquake struck right off the waters of Indonesia. The huge quake could be felt in Singapore, Thailand and India. In 2004, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake struck Indonesia, setting off a tsunami. Over 226,000 people in Sri Lanka, Thailand, Indonesia, India and nine other countries were killed, reports CNBC. The latest earthquake has set fears of a Tsunami in residents.
A geophysicist with the US Geological Survey has said it was unlikely that a tsunami would be generated given that this type of earthquake that largely involved the horizontal movement of the earth's blocks, does not produce a column of water that could cause a tsunami.
A tsunami can be caused by a sudden disruption of the sea floor resulting in the vertical displacement of water. When earthquakes happen beneath the sea, as in the present case, water above the area, which is deformed, will undergo sudden displacement from its equilibrium position.
An 8.2-magnitude temblor struck 618 kilometers off the coast of Aceh province, epicenter of the December 2004 tsunami that killed hundreds of thousands of people in Asia. Two hours earlier, a magnitude-8.6 quake struck off Sumatra.
Hundreds more American Airlines flights were canceled on Friday at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport in the wake of Tuesday's powerful tornado-riddled storm.
A ghost ship that has been adrift since the tsunami struck Japan last year, has been shot up and sunken by U.S. Coast Guard cannon fire.
A US Coast Guard cutter used cannon fire Thursday to sink a Japanese fishing vessel that got washed out to sea by the March 11 tsunami. The Ryou-Un Maru was sunken 180 miles west of the US and Canadian borders off Southeast Alaskan coast.