Japan

CANBERRA, Australia (SMH) ---- A Japanese whaling fleet ship is again being warned out of Australian waters, aggravating a diplomatic dispute with Tokyo.

Japan's fisheries minister says his country will never stop hunting whales, despite fierce criticism from other nations and violent clashes at sea with militant conservationists.

TOKYO, Japan ---- Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister Peter O'Neill has told investors in Tokyo that his country is well placed to become a strategic supplier of Japan's long-term energy needs.

TOKYO, Japan ----- Japan has signed away K125 million (US$58.2 million) as loan to Papua New Guinea to help its Ramu Power improve the overall capacity of its current transmission system.

TOKYO, Japan -- The United States and Japan on Friday announced plans for basing troops in Okinawa that will result in Marines from there being moved to Hawaii and Guam.

TOKYO, Japan --- The United States and Japan have opened the door to new nuclear talks with North Korea if the saber-rattling country lowered tensions and honoured past agreements, even as it rejected South Korea's latest offer of dialogue as a “crafty trick”.

Minerals, such as rare earth metals, are increasingly becoming an important commodity in a resource-constrained world economy. As a result new frontiers both onshore and offshore, to the depths of the ocean, are emerging around the world.

Minerals, such as rare earth metals, are increasingly becoming an important commodity in a resource-constrained world economy. As a result new frontiers both onshore and offshore, to the depths of the ocean, are emerging around the world.

TOKYO, Japan ---- Japan has been accepted into a proposed Pacific regional free trade bloc.

TOKYO, Japan --- Japan's prime minister Shinzo Abe has presided over a ceremony marking a new national day he says he hopes will restore Japanese national pride.