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Matsui, Star in Two Continents, Is Retiring New York Times Like the United States, Japan has its own baseball royalty, and the princes are high school players drafted by the Yomiuri Giants. Being chosen by the hallowed Giants — Japan's equivalent of the Yankees, the Lakers and the Cowboys combined — does not ... See all stories on this topic » New York Times

Japan's Worse-Than-Forecast Output Bolsters Abe's Stimulus Case Bloomberg Japan's industrial output tumbled more than forecast to the lowest level since the aftermath of the record 2011 earthquake, bolstering the case for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to unleash large-scale stimulus. The 1.7 percent drop in November from October ... See all stories on this topic » Bloomberg

Japan Hints It May Revise an Apology on Sex Slaves New York Times TOKYO — A top official hinted Thursday that Japan's newly installed conservative government might seek to revise a nearly two-decade-old official apology to women forced into sexual slavery during World War II, a move that would most likely outrage ... See all stories on this topic » New York Times

Nowhere to Use Japan's Growing Plutonium Stockpile ABC News How is an atomic-powered island nation riddled with fault lines supposed to handle its nuclear waste? Part of the answer was supposed to come from this windswept village along Japan's northern coast. By hosting a high-tech facility that would convert ... See all stories on this topic » ABC News

Will Japan Unapologize to 'Comfort Women'? New York Times (blog) The New York Times's Tokyo bureau chief, Martin Fackler, writes that Japan's new (and former) prime minister, Shinzo Abe, and his conservative government may revise Japan's 1993 apology for forcing thousands of women to be sex slaves in the service of ... See all stories on this topic » New York Times (blog)

Insight: Under siege, Japan central bank wakes up to political reality Reuters TOKYO (Reuters) - Within a day of Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party sweeping to power in elections this month, elite bureaucrats in Japan's central bank rushed to ready what amounted to a surrender offer. Abe had run his campaign with a relentless ... See all stories on this topic »

US Marine arrested on Okinawa, Japan, where anger is growing against alleged ... Washington Post TOKYO — A U.S. Marine was arrested Friday on trespassing charges in Japan's southwestern island of Okinawa, where public outrage is growing against the American military following a rape allegedly by servicemen. Anibal Antonio Barraza-Ortiz, 27, ... See all stories on this topic » Washington Post

Japan Data Show Economy Still Weak Wall Street Journal TOKYO—Japanese industrial production fell more than expected in November, government data showed Friday, while other data were mixed, likely fueling more calls for monetary easing and government stimulus as Japan's export-led economy continues to ... See all stories on this topic » Wall Street Journal

China Says Japan Must Reflect on History After Sex Slave Comment Bloomberg China's ruling Communist Party, in its official newspaper, called on Japan to not “play tricks” with history after comments by a Japanese official cast doubt on whether newly elected Prime Minister Shinzo Abe would uphold a 1993 apology to women forced ... See all stories on this topic »

Japan's Call for Weaker Yen Spurs Talk of Copycat Moves Wall Street Journal Unusual explicitness from Japan's new leaders has helped convince the market they are serious about weakening the yen to revive the nation's embattled exporters, but such moves threaten to complicate Tokyo's relations with the U.S. and other major ... See all stories on this topic »