"Having that in the background is probably...unfortunate in all ways, isn't it?" Honda Racing Corporation president David ...

The Zaibatsu were the industrial giants that practically ran Japan’s economy during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. These massive family-run conglomerates were the epitome of wealth, wielding ...

AUD/USD traders await Aussie GDP and RBA cues. A soft print may fuel rate cut bets and drag the Aussie below $0.64. US data ...

It is a scholarly and thoroughly documented analysis of the Japanese constitutional system and of the technique of Japanese diplomacy. The working of the system is demonstrated by the monographic ...

Torture—especially at the hands of the dreaded Kempeitai, whose leaders, oddly enough, were not tried in Tokyo—was routinely practiced all over the Japanese Empire. But the defendants in Tokyo ...

These tankers, which handle a quarter of all LNG shipments, are only the tip of Japan’s increasingly dominant gas empire. With the enthusiastic backing of the government, corporate Japan now ...

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