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UPDATE: Japan, U.S. agree on Tokyo joining...
"Japan and the United States have reached an agreement on Japan's participation in the TPP talks," Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told reporters on April 12. (The Asahi Shimbun)
Japan and the United States on April 12 agreed on a deal paving the way for Tokyo to join talks on an Asia-Pacific free trade agreement, increasing the economic weight of the...
Rio+20 ending with weak text, emboldened observers
US' State Secretary, Hillary Clinton, speaks during the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), at Riocentro, in western Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Friday, June 22, 2012.  (AP Images)
RIO DE JANEIRO -- Global leaders were wrapping up a U.N. development summit on June 22 with little to show but a lackluster agreement, leaving many attendees convinced that...
RIO+20: Main points in Rio+20 agreement
Environmental activists, one portraying Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff holding a banner symbolizing "dirty money" made from fossil fuel subsidies, shout slogans during a protest on the final day of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, or Rio+20, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, June 22, 2012. (AP Photo)
RIO DE JANEIRO -- Global leaders on June 22 wrap up a United Nations development summit with little to show but a lackluster agreement, as critics scorned governments for...
BIZ BRIEF: Mizuho enters agreement with Korea...
Mizuho Corporate Bank, Ltd. (MHCB) entered a memorandum of understanding for business cooperation June 13 with the Korea Finance Corp., a South Korean government financial...
BIZ BRIEF: NEC, GS Yuasa ink agreement on battery...
NEC Corp. and GS Yuasa Corp. announced on June 6 the conclusion of an agreement to supply components for lithium-ion batteries.
BIZ BRIEF: NTT Com, BIG to offer global Internet...
NTT Communications Corp. said it reached agreement May 19 with Brunei International Gateway (BIG), a joint venture of government and telecommunications companies in Brunei, to...
BIZ BRIEF: Toyo enters agreement with Iraq oil...
Toyo Engineering Corp. announced on April 25 that it had entered into a general engineering service agreement (GESA) with Iraqi-owned South Oil Co. for upstream projects in the ...
BIZ BRIEF: MHI signs joint agreement with Chinese...
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. (MHI) signed a joint-development agreement on March 12 in Tokyo with Sinopacific Shipbuilding Group Co. of China under which MHI will provide...
China Navy officer rejects joint development...
China's development facility in the East China Sea in September 2010 (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
BEIJING--A high-ranking Chinese naval officer on March 6 rejected the 2008 Japan-China agreement to jointly develop the Shirakaba natural gas field as well as the countries’...
BIZ BRIEF: Firms agree to co-develop new vaccine
Daiichi Sankyo Co. and Terumo Corp. on Feb. 23 announced an agreement to co-develop a new vaccine for the prevention of infectious diseases utilizing Terumo's intradermal...
Japan eyes investment agreement with Myanmar
Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba, left, shakes hands with Myanmar counterpart Wunna Maung Lwin during their meeting at Foreign Ministry office on Dec. 26 in Naypyidaw, Myanmar. Gemba who arrived in Myanmar on Dec. 25 plans to meet with Myanmar President Thein Sein as well as opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi later on Monday. (AP Photo)
NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar--Japanese firms are closer to gaining access to once-closed Myanmar (Burma), as the Japanese foreign minister's first visit to the country in nine years...
Japan and Taiwan continue strengthening trade ties
TAIPEI -- Representatives of Japan and Taiwan signed an investment agreement on Sept. 22 aimed at cementing their flourishing trade ties.
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