Japan has shut down another nuclear power station, bringing it a step closer to suspending atomic energy, following the Fukushima disaster. Only one of the 54 nuclear reactors remains in operation, and it is...
(Reuters) – The United States exempted Japan and 10 EU nations from financial sanctions because they have significantly cut purchases of Iranian oil, but left Iran’s top customers China and India exposed to the...
Last week, the EU, US and Japan formally asked the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to look at China’s export restriction on rare earth metals. Lawyers believe the case will run and run. The 17...
Seven Lives, Seven Fates: The residents of Japan’s northeastern coast are still coping with the aftermath of the triple catastrophe. One year after, the disaster still defines daily life. Journalists Anne Backhaus and Roman...
Japan’s economy contracted more than expected in the last three months of 2011 as a rising yen and floods in Thailand hurt businesses. Gross domestic product shrunk by 2.3% during the period from a...
Japan has racked up its first trade deficit in 31 years as the country’s ageing crisis hits home and the Fukushima nuclear disaster raises dependence on imported fuel. The darkening picture has set off...
(Reuters) – Europe and Japan moved ahead on Tuesday in planning for punitive cuts in oil imports from Iran, where a senior official dismissed Western anger at news Tehran is enriching uranium deep underground...
Dismissed as a “nobody” by Japan’s nuclear industry, seismologist Katsuhiko Ishibashi spent two decades watching his predictions of disaster come true: First in the 1995 Kobe earthquake and then at Fukushima. He says the...
The Bank of Japan (BOJ) has warned that the country’s economic growth may be hurt by the eurozone debt crisis, flooding in Thailand and a strong yen. It said the euro crisis was stifling...
It is likely that radioactive cesium from the disaster at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant spread across much of northern and eastern Japan and could damage agriculture in several provinces, according to estimates...
